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Secret & Confidential

John.

Sydney. Pictou.

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hi

I am

CON

PRINTE

Miscel 133/78

357 IDENTIAL

Committer Room.

Whitehall 18th May 1878.

2

am requested by the Colonial Defence Committee to acknowledge the execipt of

letter

your

of the 10th mot", Transmitting the paraphrace of a telegram addussed by Hi Michael Hicks-Beach to the Governor General of Canada, respecting the defence of loquimalt and Pectinia; and requesting the Committer to take into consideration the question of the defence of the principal Canadian Atlantic Ports-

I beg to subsint for the information of the Secretary of state for the Colonies reports

Charlottetown upon the places naused in the margine, which

comprise the ports of greatest consequence

The Uecker Secretary of State

for the Colonce

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