CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891 — Page 454

that the

Flee

4

allegations in the letter

7

olvissions to seamen, page 1, questioned

crews of many obberchant ships in

are

mor al

often

British

the China seas mixed native ality nationality

*

of inferior character, discipline being maintained by mere animal

without religious sanctions,

so that respectable Englishmen de

not arKGc

firemen in those

if they Neither is it controverted

that these evils, & the resultant

Force

help it.

discontent-

as

elber chr ant

SC CLA

& disorder,

are

seamen

generally

aggravated or arise out of

Z

Com

cami

the

the absence.

7.07 united worship on board, 7. of mutual sympathy & fellow feeling which would thus be educed; nar

that this negation of worship is greatly caused by the

unne cess

coats

5

that

day.

451

The fact that this unnetes- :

work on board ship sary Sunday work on

mainly by natives does not materially lessen the difficulty,

moral impossibility, of

is done

the

say

the

not

conducting united worship on board

noise & confusion

in the midst

of

zee cha

C CLAS

the

sary Sunday labours, And oh succeeding sundays, after

lea

ving

anot

Hong Hong, both Baptains

"ose indisposed to rescime

creces

united worship which had been

cessarily interrupted for

cozine ce

gain.

state

mere

3. Nevertheless, the Governor

of Hong Hong défends this discreditable of things, at pages 2751, arguments which demand Ford Knutsford's attention.

51, by

rein

effect

♡~

that!

(a) for work

seven days

can be done in

than in six, & so

so any

employment when in harbour Sundays of officers & engineers in tallying cargo & coals, and

of native such cargoes &

coolies in corking such

His Excellency says

coals

But

As V

Golo