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APPENDIX H TEL. & CABLE ADDRESS : “BOATING” POINT, PORT NATAL, March 2, 1895

FROM THE AFRICA BOATING COMPANY, LTD.

TO MR. HAJI MAHOMED HAJI DADA (MESSRS HAJI MAHOMED HAJI DADA & CO.)

DEAR SIR,

Seeing you about to pay a visit to India, we take this opportunity of placing on recond our very high appreciation of your various business qualifications which you have proved during our business relations with you for the last fifteen years, and it gives us very great pleasure in stating that your integrity in business matters has never been questioned by any of the commercial community during your residence here, and we trust you will see your way to return to Natal, and we then hope that we shall renew our business relations with you once again. Hoping you will have a very pleasant voyage.

We are,

Yours faithfully,

For the African Boating Co.,

CHARLES T. HITCHINS

From a photostat: S.N. 417-424; also S.N. 451 (3-16)

Petition to Lord Elgin (Before 5-5-1895)

[Before May 5, 1895]

TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF ELGIN, P.C., G.M.S.I., G.M.I.E., ETC., ETC. VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA CALCUTTA

THE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED INDIANS RESIDING IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC

HUMBLY SHEWETH THAT :

Your Petitioners representing the Indian community in the South African Republic venture hereby to approach Your