ADMILIALTY RED TAPE.
When the troop-ship Serapis left Bombay, the Duchess of Connaught. entrusted a favorite cat to a sergeant of the Royal Artillery for conveynance to England. - The cat appears to have been in a delicate state of health — so the story goes — and, before arriving in England a litter of kittens was born. On reaching Portsmouth, the sergeant was allowed to take away the cat ; but the authorities of the ship declined to part with the kittens for which the ship's company had a auperBtitious regard. Only one cat, they contended, had been embarked, and they had no power to discharge any more. It is stated that a bulky correspondence has already taken place on the subject, and that the difficulty is as far off as ever from being settled. In the event of a child having been born on the ship, would the authorities, asks a facetious contemporary, have insisted upon their right' to retain it?
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5254, 28 July 1885, Page 2
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159ADMILIALTY RED TAPE. Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5254, 28 July 1885, Page 2
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