TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Serial
Despatch
From or to whom.
Date.
No.
No.
1
The Earl of Aberdeen
32
1894.
February 8 (Rec. Feb. 21.)
2
The High Com-
missioner Canada.
March 16
for
i
3 To the Board of Trade and Foreign Office.
March 22
Subject.
Page.
178
Transmits copy of a Despatch inviting the Governors of the Australasian Colonies and the Cape of Good Hope to send delegates to a Con- ference to be held in Ottawa, on 21st June, for the discussion of trade relations and telegraphic com- munication.
Requests that the Secretary of State will appoint an interview with himself and the other Colonial re- presentatives named, for 'the pur- pose of discussing certain objects of common interest, and to urge the appointment of an Imperial repre- sentative at the forthcoming Con. ference.
States that Lord Ripon has been invited to discuss with certain of the Colonial agents various ques- tions bearing on the relations be- tween different portions of the Empire, but that before taking any steps he would be glad of the views of the Board of Trade and Foreign Office.
1
3
3
To the High Com-
March 31
Appoints an interview for 4th April,
4
missioner
Canada
5
Board of Trade
for
March 31
6
The High Commis-
April 3
sioner for Canada.
Expresses the views of the Board as to the extent to which the Secretary of State should be prepared to dis- curs Inter-Colonial trade relations at the forthcoming interview.
Encloses copy of a memorandum on the subject of the amendment of the Imperial Act relating to Customs Duties in the Australasian Colonies.
4
5
7
Ditto
April 4
Encloses extracts on the subject of preferential trade arrangements be- tween the Colonies.
6
8
'To Foreign Office
April 16
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Transmits copies of letters from the Board of Trade and the High Com. missioner for Canada, respecting the amendment of the Act respect- ing Customs Duties in the Australa- sian Colonies, and suggests whether the difference (if any) between the English and French versions of Article XV. of the Commercial Treaty with Belgium can lead to any difficulty.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 885
6
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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Berial No.
From or to whom.
Despatch No.
Dato.
9
To Foreign Office
Very Cond-
1894.
April 16
dential.