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(Secret and Confidential.)
Sir,
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No. 226.
Colonial Office to War Office.
Downing Street, July 9, 1878. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 24th ultimo,* I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you, to be laid before Secretary Colonel Stanley, a copy of a further despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, reporting
progress
made in the measures taken for the defence of the Colony.†
the
2. I am to request that you will express to Colonel Stanley Sir Michael Hicks Beach's satisfaction at the active and prompt measures taken by the military authorities in Hong Kong for the defence of the Colony.
3. I am to take this opportunity of returning the inclosures to your letter of the 29th ultimo,‡ on the subject of the defences of Hong Kong.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
R. H. MEADE.
No. 227.
(Secret and Confidential.) Sir,
Colonial Office to Admiralty.
Downing Street, July 9, 1878.
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you, to be laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a copy of a paraphrase of a telegram from the Governor-General of Canada,§ requesting to know if the naval authorities at Esquimalt will be able from time to time, on repayment, to supply powder and shot and shell for the gun which has been lately mounted near Victoria, as Canada has no magazine at that place.
2. I am to request that you will move the Lords Commissioners to issue the necessary instructions if they see no objection.
&c.
I am,
(Signed)
R. H. MEADE.
No. 228.
Governor Sir G. F. Bowen, G.C.M.G., to the Right Hon. Sir M. E. Hicks Beach, Bart.- (Registered July 9.)
(Secret.)
Sir,
Government House, Melbourne, May 17, 1878.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt on the 15th instant of your Circular despatch marked Secret of the 20th March. The instructions contained therein will be carefully carried out; indeed they have been anticipated in practice.
2. Before this Circular reached me, I had already, with my despatch No. 94 of the 11th instant, and with many previous despatches, transmitted full information respecting the defences of Victoria, and the loyal and patriotic spirit which animates the over- whelming majority of the people of this Colony.
I have, &c. (Signed)
G. F. BOWEN.
No. 229.
The Earl of Dufferin to the Right Hon. Sir M. E. Hicks Beach, Bart.-(Received July 10.)
(Confidential.)
Sir,
Ottawa, June 26, 1878.
ON the 24th instant I had the honour to send you a telegraphic message in the following figures :—¶
* No. 194.
+ No. 216.
No. 214.
|| No. 15.
§ No. 185. ¶ Not printed.
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