CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892 — Page 130

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

rafts

from not in the places they were going to

I do not see that this point is touched in

the letter now received.

? Shall we ask the Board

again

on board

ed on

"Can a distressed Seaman placed

ship at one British

a

hot.

which will carry

him to his destination, be transfered half

way

to another British shit which did not

ship

come from that post but which is to the same destination?

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(08)

Any further communication shoak be addressed to

THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY,

(MARINE DEPARTMENT),

BOARD OF TRADE,

LONDON, S.W.

And the following letter and number should

be quoted:

M

3818

Telegraphic Address.

BOARD TRADE, MARINE, LONDON.

3527

going

you

CAL

To Mun

times at

I thucks the answer is sufficient - it

meaar,

what the Collecter of fas

Shif

Climber.

commette required to said, that the Master Francfor the distrused scamon to another shif which in what the Any Key Harter Master required -

time and

Sand Cafe to Herr for information pendence in upchte 3527

alone

EW 10 hit

Sir,

BOARD OF TRADE,

(MARINE DEPARTMENT),

LONDON, S.W.,

March 9th,

1892

C.

129

4786

I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge

(Red 10 M43 2

the receipt of your letter of the 27th ultimo, enclosin

a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong

regarding the conveyance of Distressed British Seamen

by vessels belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental

Steam Navigation Company.

In reply, I am to state, for the information of

Lord Knutsford that the conveyance of Distressed British

Seamen can be required from the Masters of such British

vessels only as are bound either direct or ultimately to

a port in the United Kingdom, or in the Colony to which

the Distressed Seanen belong.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

J. Deanston

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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