COTTON-WOOL. 



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we reo;ret to inform your Honourable Court, that Letter from 



^ Bombay, 



that officer was unable to consign more than 300 n Nov. isso. 

 bales of Broach thomil in time to be despatched to 

 London, owing to the great difficulty he had 

 experienced in obtaining from the ryots good 

 kupas^ and also to a heavy fall of rain which had 

 wetted the cotton, and consequently very much 

 retarded the operation of cleansing it from its 

 impurities. 



8. Being desirous, however, to comply, if prac- 

 ticable, with your Honourable Court's wishes, we 

 directed our Warehouse -keeper to make up the 

 500 bales from the cotton that had been purchased 

 for the China market, which was of a superior 

 description ; but as it appeared from that officer's 

 reply that he was unable to select cotton of the 

 quality required, we relinquished our intention of 

 completing the investment to the extent you had 

 ordered. 



9. In addition to the 300 bales provided to the 

 northward, we have also consigned a small portion 

 of cotton, being 25 bales and some bags, produced 

 at the experimental cotton-farm at Broach, and 

 which was pronounced by a Committee of Native 



j Merchants to be five or six per cent, more valuable 

 than the best Broach thomil purchased by our 

 Commercial Resident. 



10. The directions in the fourteenth paragraph 

 of your despatch dated the 3d June 1829 have been 

 attended to, and in order that you may be better 



enabled 



