Steamers
were complicity & compassing are of the first importance and I feel
confident that it will satisfy every reasonable requirement.
I shall be happy to attend
at your offices & go
over with you the whole of the correspondence, drawings, reports, or to furnish any further explanation should you
require any
as
I feel very strongly
on the subject of this dispatch and that after the great amount of pains which I have taken to obtain exactly what was required such objections should be raised
I am &c.
H.
Dr. St. Wakefield
All letters to be addressed to
The Crown Agents for the Colonies.
10917 - Hongkong
August to October 18th.
1860
12: 186
BEC
RIV
SEP 28 1869
122
Memorandum for the Colonies, Spring Gardens, London, S.W
27 September 1869.
ED
reply to your
letter
of the 24th
instant forwarding copy of
20 July 1867 dispatch from the Governor of
No 756.
24
Sept 1869.
750086
10086.
Hong Kong respecting the Engines
& Boiler of the Colonial Steamer "Kirton's ", I have the honor to inclose, and Graville's information, copy of a further report thereon from Wm. Wakefield C.E.
I have nothing to add to
what was stated on
the
same
subject in my
letter
of
the 23rd
instant, except that this is the first intimation that the Crown Agents have had of the vessel being intended for a
"Gunboat", but whether or not it was evidently not contemplated to place her under fire; and
For F. Rogers Bart
Colonial Office
under