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 day, and the Naderi under charter party for freight Mauritius to Bombay. Will His Excellency receive deputation Wednesday next?

GOODRICKE, LAUGHTON & COOKE


 * 31This should be the other way round. The Courland left on the 30th and the Naderi on the 2th November.

(APPENDIX E)
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(TELEGRAM) FROM PRINCIPAL UNDER-SECRETARY

TO F. A. LAUGHTON, ESQ. DURBAN

22nd.—Yours of yesterday.—I am directed to reply that the petition in question will be referred by the Governor for advice of ministers, and there will, therefore, be no need of deputation to and argument before His Excellency.

(APPENDIX F)
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DURBAN, December 21, 1896

TO THE HONOURABLE HARRY ESCOMBE

SIR,

I have the honour to enclose a copy of a telegram which I today despatched to you at Pietermaritzburg, not knowing that His Excellency the Governor was at Durban.

The Courland, s.s., and Naderi, s.s., left Bombay on the 28th and 30th ultimo, and on their arrival here on Friday last, were placed in quarantine under a proclamation dated the same day and published in a Gazette Extraordinary dated the day after, although there had been no sickness of any sort on board the respective steamers during their respective voyages.

Under the Law 4 of 1882, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for His Excellency, with the advice of his Executive Council, from time to time, to make such orders and rules as may be deemed necessary to meet exceptional cases, and to determine whether, and under what circum