CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894 — Page 666

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M. Wilv

R.2674

14 November 1894

To the Right Honourable Marquess of Ripon K.4.

Colonial Offices.

My Lord,

C. O. 19964

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I have the honour herewith to enclose a resolution, unanimously passed at a meeting in the Free Trade Hall Manchester which speaks for itself and, may I add, has my heartiest

sympathy.

The meeting had no direct bearing on the recent Opium Commission though it was stated that numbers of young Englishmen have

declared that owing to the evidence given before that Commission

they would now begin the use of opium, carrying it with them as

a regular thing! This will indeed be a disastrous result, and

I have had a personal proof of the statement in the case of my

own nephew just returned from India.

The reliability of the speakers and witnesses (Mrs Andrew

and Dr Kate Bushnell) has already been proved to the utmost by

their previous testimony in regard to the Indian Cantonments

and Lord Roberts acknowledgement.

I have ex

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above!

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I am My Lord,

Your obedient servant. +

Chairman.