CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 672

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it, to bring in their own

long

promised and more comprehensive

+

measure

which if satisfactory

and thorough.

may

take the

place of the present Bill, should

the objections urged against

the latter be found in its

orking

to have the importance.

mclaure &

667

Keswick and Mr. Belilios and

the only apparently good a

argument against it viz, that

in

it is an advance

advance of

Home

Legislation has been well

answered by Mr. Bel rios in

his letter of which I append.

5th June, 1891

a

copy, and also

Jained

for

them

by

its opponents.

My

own conviction

is that this measure is urgently

required. It is strongly supported

by

some of the leading

mercantile men, such as Mr.

Keswick

by

Mr

Ackroyd who in his minute,

copy of which was sent to your Lordship by Mr. Fleming,

wrote as

follows:.

"The argument that

because the law does not exist.

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