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desire to know on what grounds I in the circumstances

८ the case, insisted.

On

the

· woman and child being carried in the "Priam.

of

C

I can only reply

that I saw no special" ; circumstances in the ease

ssss of the Priam" which

would not equally apply to

other ship.

any

From Messro Holt and Houghton's letter, it would appear that they consider that

the

special that, I was

ciremnstances were.

informed that

the woman and child could

not be carried "owing to the ""fact that the ship was already

" crowded with Chinamen

"passengers. I certainly was so informed, but I did not

Consider

consider that to be a reasonable

objection, or one that could not be made by almost every -vessel leaving Hongkong bound

south.

if

she

These chinamen were

Emigrants, and as such were not carried in a part of the ship where the woman would

bd probably

accommodated, was carried at all; the number of these Emigrants too was 50 short of the complement allowed to be carried by the Priam. Furthermore, these Emigrants

only going

to the Straits Settlements; meanwhile, and until they left the ship, there was available accommodation

were

for the woman and shild - elsewhere, as

as only

three cabin

passengers