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Appendix No. 4.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
(IN CONTINUATION OF APPENDIX No. 2, FIRST REPORT.)
No. 15.
Colonial Office to Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad.
(Secret and Confidential) My Lord,
Downing Street, September 20, 1879.
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to your Lordship, for the consideration of the Royal Defence Commission, a copy of the accompanying correspondence* between this Department and the War Office with reference to the proposal of that Department for the appointment of a local Committee at the Cape of Good Hope to consider and report on the permanent defences of that Colony.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach has deferred communicating with Sir Bartle Frere, in order that he might refer the correspondence to your Lordship for the Report of the Royal Commission on the subject.
I am,
(Signed)
&c.
R. H. MEADE.
No. 16.
Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad to Colonial Office.
(Secret and Confidential.) Sir,
Highclere Castle, September 29, 1879.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your three Secret and Confidential letters of the 20th September relating to the defence of the Colonies of South Australia, the Cape of Good Hope,† and the Straits Settlements; and of that of the 23rd September on the defence of Western will take an Australia; and to request you to inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies that early opportunity of laying these communications before my colleagues of the Royal Defence. Commission.
No. 17.
I have, &c. (Signed) CARNARVON.
Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad to Colonial Office.
(Secret and Confidential.) Sir,
16, Bruton Street, October 8, 1879.
WITH reference to your letter of the 20th Septembert as to the proposed appointment of a local Committee at the Cape of Good Hope to consider and report on the permanent defences of that Colony, I think that although there has as yet been no meeting of the Commission, it would be desirable to take steps at once for giving effect to the proposal of the Secretary of State for War, contained in his letter to you of the 18th April, 1879.
I propose to take the earliest opportunity of convening the members of the Royal Defence Com- mission, and will immediately bring the subject before them; but looking to the assistance which the Commission would derive from a Report of the nature proposed, and the length of time which must necessarily elapse before it could be received from the Colony, I would suggest for the consideration of the Secretary of State the advisability of at once issuing instructions for the formation of a Committee with a view to obtain their Report at the earliest possible date.
I have, &c. (Signed)
CARNARVON.
No. 18.
Colonial Office to Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad.
Sir,
Downing Street, October 22, 1879. WITH reference to the Earl of Carnarvon's letter of the 8th instant, I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you, for the information of the Royal Commission on * See Colonial Office Correspondence, "Miscellaneous No. 38," Nos. 19 and 39; and "Miscellaneous No. 39," No. 9.
+ No. 15.
‡ No. 17.
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