CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6] — Page 20

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there is no material improve ment in the aspect of affairs therein reported, and that notwithstanding every effort on the part of the Government to bring the misguided coolies to reason, the strike still

continues to the great detri- ment of the commercial interests of the Colony and

to the serious inconvenience

of the public generally.

2.

This unsatisfactory

state of things is unfortunate

ly

ly in a large

measure due

to the ill-timed intervention

of the mercantile community through its representative - Committee and to what I con

sider the ill-considered and

unauthorised action adopted by that Committee independent. ly of the Government. In order to explain the position of affairs clearly to Your Lordship, it will be necessary to follow of events during

more

the course

the past week some what in

the past 1

detail