SOUTH AFRICA.
CORRESPONDENCE
WITH
VARIOUS COLONIES
RESPECTING THE
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SOUTH AFRICA.
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Reference :-
No. 1.
GAMBIA.
ADMINISTRATOR SIR R. B. LLEWELYN to Mr. CHAMBERLAIN.
(Received 2.45 p.m., December 8, 1899.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 5.]
Unofficial members of Council on behalf of people of Colony have, with loyal sentiment, proposed to contribute £500 wives and families of British soldiers killed in South Africa.
If you approve, please give instructions accordingly to Crown Agents.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
SIR,
(No. 452.)
No. 2.
MAURITIUS.
GOVERNOR SIR C. BRUCE to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(Received December 16, 1899.)
[Answered by No. 6.]
Government House, Mauritius, November 14, 1899.
WITH reference to my telegraphic despatch of this date, I have the honour to transmit a copy of a Resolution adopted by the Council of Government on the motion of Mr. Leclézio, C.M.G., senior Elected Member, seconded by Sir Virgile Naz, K.C.M.G., expressing, on behalf of the Colony of Mauritius, an assurance of the loyal attachment of the community to the Person and Imperial Throne of Her Majesty the Queen,
2. On behalf of the Colony I venture to hope that Her Majesty may be graciously pleased to accept the terms of the Resolution as a declaration of the desire of Mauritius to associate itself with the many Colonies that have already in various ways taken the opportunity of events in South Africa to express the sentiment of their loyalty.
3. Mauritius is not in a position like some other Colonies to furnish a contingent of trained Volunteers to the Forces in South Africa, but the terms of the second part of the Resolution will, I cannot doubt, be accepted by Her Majesty in the spirit in which Her
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