grounds that the Committee of this Association venture to ask
ence,
that the suggestions put forward in the accompanying correspond.
by shipping matters, may receive His Excellency's careful, and it is hoped, favourable consider-
men well versed in
ation.
Competition, which is daily becoming keener, has reduced freights on Merchand- ise, in many
instances, to a point which almost ceases to be remunerative, and it thus becomes the more necessary Brition shipping should at _ least be left as free and un- restricted to engage in the passenger carrying trade as the ships of other nations.
The comparative im- unity from assidents and
loss
loss of life which has character_ ised the carriage of Chinese passengers by British vessels over a period of many years is, apparently, with great 545 justice advanced as a reason that, so far as the safety of passengers is concerned, further Legislation is not required.
An absence of complaint on the part of the passengers so carried may be safely accepted as evidence of the satisfactory
treatment accorded them on board the steamers by which they travelled.
The Committee are ~
much obliged for the inform_ ation contained in the con- cluding paragraph of your letter, that it is the intention. of the Imperial Government to endeavour to induce Foreign
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