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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

FROM EUROPE.

HE ILA.). Stquship

THE

* KRISĠA VIA” Captain Selewinghanimer, having arrived, Con signees of Cargo are herby questod to send in their Bill of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned azul to take immediato delivery of their gode from alongside.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice in the emirary be given before To-DAY.

Any Cargo inpeiling her discharge will be at consignes Tisk into the hazardous and, of extra Lazardous Gedowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godawa Compnay, Limital, and stored at Consignmen risk and expen

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival leer, after which date. they cannot be recognisol.

No Claire will be admitted after the Goods have left the Golowns, sud all Goods remaining undelivered after the 1st April, will be subject to rent.

All broken. chufed, and damageil Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be -examined on the 31st March, ât 3 P.M.

No Fire Insurance has been affected.

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THE Steamship

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aving arrived, Consigues of Cargo are" heigby iformed that their Goods with the exception Opiunt Treasure and Valuables, aro hoing nded and stored at their risk into the azarlons and/or extra' hazardous Godowns of e Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and odown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and West aint Godowns, whence delivery may be stained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods ave left the Godowns, and all goods remaining ndellvored after the 1st April, will be subject

rent.

All Broken, clinfed and damaged Goods are į be left in the Godowns, where they will be samnnzent on the 1st April, at 9:30 A,M,1

All Claims must roach us. bofore the 4th

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No Fire Insurance will be effected.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the ndowsigued

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..Matapan" from Havre EX 8.4. *Matapon** from Bordeaux exs. V du Lorient in connection with above Steamier are iareby interned that their goods with the o1- reption of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their risks into the hazardons and/or extra hazardous Gotlowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Co., Ld, at Kowloon whence may be obtained unmediately after onal Cargo will be forwarded on unless is received from the Consignees before 11 A.M., To-Bar, requesting it to be landed here.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersignal. Goods remaining unclaimed after MONDAY, the 5th April, at Noon, will be nbjust to rent and landing charges.

All claims must be sent in to my on or before 105th April. they will not be recognized,

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pt. Hildebrandt, having arrived Consignees of rgo are hereby requested to and in their Is of Iding for countersignature by the įdersigned and to take immediate delivery of ir Goods from alongside.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless ice to the contrary be given before To-DAY.

by Cargo impeding her discharge will be }

at Consignees risk into the hazardous 2 extra Izardons Godowns of the Houg- cand Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., L. #utored at Consignees' risk and expense,

Cinima must be presented within ten days ofstomer's arrival here, after which date

cannot be recognised.

laims will be admitted after the Gools harift the Godowns, and all Goods remaining artered after the 6th April, will be subject

trat.

| broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to left in the Godowns, where they will be **ned on the 5th April, at 3 P.M."

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RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN CROWN COLONIES.

SIR FRANK SWETTENHAM AND THE CROWN AGENTS.

We have received a copy of the Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the organisation of the Crown Agents Office, and also a copy of the minutes of prionco, *

The following extract from the evidence given by Sir F. A. Swettenham, KC.M.G., has an interest for rendere in Hongkong which justifies its reproduction.

8774. With regard to the system of carrying ent works in the colonios under the advice and control of consulting engineers, you wish to give some evidence? think that is quito wrong.

$79. You think that is wrong altogether Absolutely wrong.

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to do with it. Consequently he was constantly making mistakes for which the Colony had to pay, because there is really no responsibility, and what seems so entirely wrong is that the con sulting engineers are not only your advisors but they are really the constractors of the railway. They are advising on their own work all the timo That is what seems so wrong. Thay responsible yet they are gone only technical. advisers. That is “à-position that cannot be right.

894. (Mr. Hurria) Are you sure that they were constructors ?—Yes.

895. I remember a good many cases of con- struction of railways, but my recollection is that always thore has been a constructing firm apart. from the consulting ongiusers.Thisisn Depüet- mental work, and I myself a strongly in favour of Departmental work when it is done by the Government with an 'engineer who is quite independent of the consulting engineers,

895d. I have had some little experience of the Colonial Office, and that is my conception of the asnal system. I cannot help thinking that you are telling ns of a system which was an anomaly --I hïve no doubt about it. practice is that the resident engineer is looked 896. (Chairman) I am told that the sun pon us the servant of the local Government. and that all his reports to the consulting

879. The system of carrying out the works Yes.

880. Would you toll is why? I think that is wrong in the case where the colony has got qualified officers to deal with the work, I think it stands to reason that it runst be wrong. The system that is employed through the Crown Agents and the consulting engineers is that the consulting engineers become responsible for the work nominally. They undertake the work; they appoint an engineer to do it; they make contract with him and the Gevement of the Colony has no voice in the matter whatever, exit. cept to pay all the bills.

gingers go through the Government. W that the case with you?—As to the engineer, no

to the correspondence, yox, under flying seal they do.

are not supposes to be capable of constructing

897. Bat you could do nothing on it? If we milway we are clearly not capable of criticising In this question I was told if I did not like it why did I not go out and look at the work did not pretend to be asi onginser. and say, whit was the matter with it. I sail I

898. The only thing you were considered to be capable of was to pay for it? That was all, and as regards that we were not allowed to raise has to pay the bil a question at all We were simply told that wo

881. Describe to us just what would happen in particular case. Where does the consulting engineer come in and who appoints him Lel

say that you want to make a bridge or railway the Straits Settlements? Suppose you want to make a railway in the Straits Settlements, I will describe a case which actually courred, In Singu.

899. Wo understand thus system, did not pore they wished to make a railway weross the meet with your approval, and according to Mr. island; it was approved by the Secretary of Harris it was anomalous. What would you State, and the consulting engineers were im-uggest in substitution for it where Colonies mediately, being in the position of having to

want to built a railway? I suggest a system advise on the railway.

which luas been followed in the Malay Stutes with great success.

882. Which consulting engineers? How did they come in-The consulting engineers of the Crown Ageats. They then proceeded to appoint an engineer to carry out the construe- tion. The Colony was not asked anything about that they appolitod anybody they chose, sent them gut to the Colony and they proceeded to construct the railway. They dul construct it al

post, but at lest the Colony could not hear it any longer, and then was such a fuss made that the engiaver went away leaving it unfinished, and It was finished by the engineers of the Malay States Railways. The whole of that was done through the consulting engineers, their man in Singapore reporting directly to them everything thut he was doing, and the Gererment of the Colony had no control whatever of any kind. All that the Colony could do was to pay the bill, and we always had to pay whatever was demanded, although the original estimates were enormously excreted. They were exceeded time after time, and every time you had to go to the Council and say: We have nothing whatever to do with this work; it is entirely outside the control of anybody in the Colony bat the gentleman who has been appointed by the consulting engineers in England says that he wants s

some more money, and you have got to vote it.

883. And they lil-They were told from here that they hul to.

884, (Mr. Marvis They did not go to the. Colonial Office on the matter? The Colonial Office alust invariably supports the Crown Agent.

vou just 885. (Sir Francia Mowatt, Will you complete the story? You say that the engineer went away, and some other engineer then pro- ceeded to superintend? Who appointed the second engineer-One or two of the works built by this Brat mun collapsed; a bridge tam

blad

down and I think an embankment gave way, and everybody in the Colony becamos critic of the railway, so that at list the man got so tired ofitall that, mainly through the representations of the Government, when it was nearly completed, he went away. The Malay States having already. for twenty years been constracting their own railways without any assistance whatever from the Crown Agents, sent a man down and com- plated it,

886. (Chairman) But how was it that the Crown Agents came in the first time in the ease of this railway and did not come in the case of the other railways built during the preceding

wants to build a railway?The Government 900. What is that? Suppose that a Colony

"ppointed its own railway engineers.

901, (Sir Francis Maulk) The local Go- vernment ? —Yes, it appointed its own engineers just as it would appoint its own doctor and its own public works man.

902. (Chairman). Then they would pro. cresi

to advertise for tenders for lech

the Crem motives and

Agents would not come in at all?—Yes. Some of the work at first was tore through contractors, but it has all been done by the Government depart we found it was not satisfactory, and oventually

mentally small sub-contracts being given out, but the whole of the work being done under the control of the Government instead of by con

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tractors.

903. (Sir Ralph Moor). But you had consulting engiucer--They were the very sarue consulting engineers. We had no voice in that matter.

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904. But you had youroyu working staff We we allowed to choose our own con- ulting sngineers.

905. In the Malay States?--Yes, we were owir consulting not allowed to choose engineers.

906 (Chaivinan) Who chose them for you The Colonial Office or the Crown Agunts,

907.

(Sir Francis Mowatt.) I think the What question asked by the Chairman was: was the system you would approve of -That is it.

908. Í understand you would approve of consulting engineers chosen by the Colony-Yes.

909. We were not talking at the moment of what really happened in that instance, but we were talking of what system you would recom

end? The system that was followed in the Malay States. I do not think it matters whether the Colonial Office or the Crown Agents, or the Colony choose the consulting engineers; no long us they are people of reputa tion I do not think it matters in the least. All is that they might to have nothing to do with the construction, and they ought not to have anything to do with the appointment of the resident engineers who carry out the work, except by request.

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910. (Chairman.) Ignite see your point?-As we are talking about that, I might mention that, when the Malay States had been con twelve years, all of a sudden, without asking us structing railways on this plau for at least anything at all, an engineer was sent out from England to go and inspect all the lines and make a report to the consiting engineers for the benefit of the Crown Agents. We never asked for him; we could have supplied the whole of the information that it took him a long time to acquire, but to our great sarprise

jay the bill. at the end wa were told

911. (Mr. Horria.) Are you certain that in your absence somebody did not ask for him?--- Absolutely positive.

twenty years Because the Malay States is not a British Colony, and never has been, and therefore they have done more what they like.

887. If it was necessary for Singapore to go to the Crown Agents in the first instance, how did they manage to evade the Crown gents when they found the bridges tumbling down and got the Federated Malay States to do it for them F-I think at last at this end, the Colonial Office, the Crown Agents and the consulting engineers got rather tired of the constant com. plaints that were made, and the man himself at fast got so sick of it that he said he would like to go away, and that was the actual result. We have this ONLY FACTORY IN Crown Agents appoint

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912. It seems to me au extraordinary thing to happen. I am positive about it.

913. I did not know that the Colonial Office had a double life I am absolutely positive and there is no question about it, because I' suid something about thinking it was strange that should be naked to pay for this gentleman

it cost about twice the original estimate, and it whom we had never asked for at all, as we could was beginning to look as if the line would never

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914. Do yea remember who was Under- Secretary then-No, I could not tell you.

915. (Chairman.) Had the Crown Ageats anything to do with it ?—Yes.

889. But what about the parts that tumbled down

Thut happened afterwards. 890. (Mr. Gabon.) What was the date of this incident you are telling us about From 100 whether it was the Crown Agents or the con- 916. They sent him out I do not know to 1903.

891. The completion of this was later than the sulting engineers who sent him out. but what last Report dealing with the resolutions of the they wrote was that the Crown Agents had Crown Agents to the Colonies, dealt with by Mr. Report on the Malay Staton Railways; and in suddenly asked the consulting engineers for a Chamberlain ?—I was in Singapore at the time.

order to obtain, that the consulting engineers and I represented to the colonial. Ofce as

He only plainly as I could what the facts were, but, as appointed this man and sent him out. I say, they support the Crown Agents in these stayed in the place about six weeks; of course, matters, and I was told this was what was called had to go to everybody for all the information the recognised system. I pointed out that we he got, and then he wrote a Report, and we had been for brenty years very successfully con- wer

were told to pay for it. That is all that strusting railways in the Malay States by what happened, was not called the recognised system, but they

917. It has not happened again so far as you

sail that did not matter that we had been know-No, we said something about it at the twenty years wrong. That was all.

892. (Chairman.) I am told that the Secretary

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