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(APPENDIX I)
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(TELEGRAM)

FROM LAUGHTON

TO COLONIAL SECRETARY

MARITZBURG

Anxiously awaiting reply re. quarantine. Both steamers are signalling for water forage and provisions.

(Signed) GOODRICKE, LAUGHTON & COOKE

(APPENDIX J)
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DURBAN,

December 24, 1896

TO DANIEL BIRTWELL, ESQ., M.D., ACTING HEALTH OFFICER PORT OF NATAL

SIR,

We are instructed by Messrs Dada Abdoola & Co., of this town, owners of the Courland, s.s., and representing the owners of the Naderi, s.s., to bring to your notice that these vessels with 255 and 356 passengers on board respectively, have been lying in the outer anchorage, bound from Bombay to this Port, since Friday last, the 18th instant, without pratique being granted to them by you, although the respective masters have been ready and willing, and still are, to sign a declaration in terms of Law 3, 1858, testifying to the perfect state of health of all on board the said respective vessels throughout the voyage, and to do all things necessary to meet the requirement of the law.

We are instructed to request you immediately to grant pratique to the said vessels to enable them to enter the harbour and discharge their passengers and cargo.

In case you should refuse to grant our request, we shall be glad if you will inform us of the grounds of your refusal; and as this is a matter of the utmost urgency, we shall feel obliged by giving us [sic] your reply at your earliest convenience.

We are,

Sir,

Your obedient servants,

(Signed) GOODRICKE, LAUGHTON & COOKE