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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
APPROXIMATE Estimate for Works and Buildings required for Permanent Defence of the Cape Peninsula."
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No. 173.
Captain C. Mills, C.M.G., to Colonial Office.
(Confidential.) Šir,
London, March 12, 1880. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant,* and to beg that you will be so good as to convey to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies the expression of my best thanks for the perusal of the documents on the subject of the defence of the Cape Colony, herewith returned.
Station.
Service.
Amount.
Remarks.
£
Cape Town
Fort Wynyard-
•
1. Conversion of three of the present platforms for
three 18-ton guns
900
Amsterdam Battery-
2. Conversion of two of the present platforms for
two 18-ton guns
600
--
8. Provision of barrack accommodation for fifty men.
1,500
Convert or fit up case-
mates.
Fort Knokke-
4. Conversion of one of the present platforms for one 18-ton gun, and additional platform for one 64-pounder..
Sir,
900
Present Batteries-
5. Completion of as now contemplated
•
4,184
An item in F. A. E.,
1880-81.
6. Store magazine
5,000
7. Barrack accommodation, to complete accommoda-
for 1,000 men
8,800
Total (Cape Town)
21,384
Hout's Bay
8. Battery for two 64-ton guns, magazines, &c. 9. Barrack accommodation for twenty-five men 10. Torpedo establishment
6,000
2,500
8,000
Total (Hout's Bay)
11,500
Simon's Town
North Battery-
11. Provision of fourth gun, &c.
8,192
An item in F. A. E.,
1880-81.
12. Barrack accommodation for fifty gunners
5,000
13. South Battery for four
-ton guns
12,000
14. Extreme right battery for two 18-ton guns
6,000
15. Powder magazine..
--
5,100
16. Wharf and pier for landing stores
900
17. Barracks for 500 infantry
50,000
Total (Simon's Town)
82,192
Miscellaneous
Road to Hout's Bay
300
Railway to Kalk Bay
50,000
Telegraph from Wynberg to Hout's Bay
500
Total (miscellaneous)
50,800
SUMMARY.
Cape Town
Hout's Bay
Simon's Town..
Miscellaneous
Grand total
::::
21,384
11,600
82,192
50,800
165,876
I have, &c. (Signed)
CHARLES MILLS.
No. 174.
Colonial Office to the Secretary to the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad.
Downing Street, March 15, 1880. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 8th instant, I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you, to be laid before the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad, a copy of a further letter from Lieutenant-Colonel W. Hope, V.C., inclosing additional copies of his proposal to the Secretary of State for War with reference to the guns which he claims to Lieutenant-Colonel Hope has been informed that if he desires to make any further communication in the matter, he should address it to the Royal Commissioners.
I am, &c.
have invented.
(Signed)
ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.
Sir,
No. 175.
Colonial Office to Lieutenant-Colonel Hope, V.C.
Downing Street, March 15, 1880.
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant, inclosing further copies of your proposal to the Secretary of State for War with reference to the construction of guns on the system which you advocate, and which you request may be communicated to the members of the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad. I am to inform you that a copy of your letter and the original inclosures have been transmitted to the Royal Commission, but I am to say that if you wish to make any farther communication in the matter, it would be desirable that you should address it direct to the Commission.
I am, &c. (Signed) ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.
Mo.-In addition must be added the cost of guns, torpedo-vessel, or torpedo appliances afloat.
(Signed)
January 22, 1880.
F. C. HASSARD, Colonel, R.E., Commanding
Royal Engineer, South Africa.
Sir,
A true copy:
(Signed) H. HALLAM PARR, Major, Military Secretary,
Secretary to Defence Commission.
No. 176.
Colonial Office to the Secretary to the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad.
Downing Street, March 17, 1880. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 21th February,§ I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you, to be laid before the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad, a conv of the reply which has been received from the Admiralty to the reference made to that
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