CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4] — Page 597

I am, Sir, FRO?

C. O.

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Your obedient Servant,

(signed) John Carlisle

Secretary.

These letters fully place before your Lordship the

action the Admiral on the China Station, Sir F. Richards (H.C.B.), has adopted with reference to an application made to him, by a British Company of Shipowners domiciled in this colony, for assistance,

to

one.

of their missing steamers.

may be well to explain that the

It may

•

place where the unfortunate steamer was last sighted is within three days' steam of Thonghong, and that the Company in question, the Scottish Oriental £86, do not run a line of steamer between this Colony

d Java, as might be inferred from the letter of

and

Admiral Richards.

That at the date of the application

to Admiral Richards almost the entire lakina

Squadron consisting of twelve vessels, of which_

four, which were waiting.

all

were effective,

save

to be recommissioned, were lying idle in this harbour.

That three days previous to the

Company's application, Admiral Richards, in

response.

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