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a

unanimously passed a vote of the equivalent of $2 $10,000 for the relief of the sufferers

in Mauritius.

The present financial circumstances of this

Colony

are

not such as

to justify any expenditure that can be avoided, but

the occasion was so exceptional that on

hearing of the disaster in Mauritius I requested the senior unofficial member

of

of Council to ascertain the feeling of his unofficial

on the question

colleagues of voting the relief of the sufferers. In the result I learnt from him that the unofficial. members were in favour

a sum towards

of a vote of R$ 10,000. I. then summoned the

Legislative Council, when

the vote was

my

proposed by

the

direction by Colonial Secretary,

seconded

and