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graphing machine shall have every assistance and protection at our hands, and that it will not in any way be interfered with.

Believe me, &c.,

Sir Chas. Lucas, K.C.M.G., C.B.,

&c.,

&c.,

31866/07

&c.

No. 46.

C. BROOKE.

MR. A. S. CHAMBERLAIN to INDIA OFFICE. (Received in Colonial Office, 23 September, 1908.) The London School of Economics and Political Science,

Clare Market, London, W.C.,

23 September, 1908. SIR,

I HAVE to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant.* I will arrange for the delivery to the India Store Depôt of a copy of the Indian edition of Mr. Mackinder's Lantern Lectures on the United Kingdom, and a complete set of the lantern slides, ready packed for shipment, and addressed to the Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner, North-West Frontier Province, Peshawar.

I am, &c.,

A. S. CHAMBERLAIN.

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While in India Mr. Fisher was granted free passes over all the Government Railways, and his valuable photographic apparatus, which requires very careful handling, was allowed to pass through the Customs without examination. The same privileges have been accorded him in Canada, together with free passes over the privately-owned railways of the Dominion, and I should be glad if, in the event of his not having already reached the Colony, it were found possible to secure for him similar facilities in Newfoundland.

It would be of great assistance to the artist if he could be given an introduction to an official of the Education Department, and to any other officer whose advice and guidance would enable him to secure a collection of pictures which will convey the best possible idea of the Colony in its various aspects.

The letterpress which will be required in connection with the slides will probably form the subject of a communication at a later date, and the co-operation of your Government in the matter will be invited, and will, no doubt, be readily given.

I have, &c.,

35802

CREWE.

24337

SIR,

No. 47.

NEWFOUNDLAND.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.

(Miscellaneous.)

[Answered by No. 50.]

Downing Street, 24 September, 1908. I HAVE the honour to invite your attention to the 7th paragraph of Mr. Lyttel- ton's circular despatch of the 13th of April, 1905,† in which allusion is made to the question of the preparation of illustrated lectures on the Colonies for use in the schools of the United Kingdom. I am glad to be in a position to state that the difficulty as regards the provision of funds for the necessary initial expenditure has been, in the main, overcome.

At the instance of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, Lady Dudley and a Committee of ladies secured by private subscription a sum of nearly £4,000. This amount was placed at the disposal of the Committee on Visual Instruction, sitting at this Office, for the purpose of enabling them to proceed with this side of their scheme.

The work of preparing the lectures has been entrusted to Mr H. J. Mackinder, and the Committee have obtained the services of Mr. A. Hugh Fisher, a member of the Painter-Etcher Society, to visit India and the Colonies for the purpose of obtain- ing sketches and photographs suitable for lantern slides.

Mr. Fisher has already completed his first tour, which embraced India, Ceylon, Somaliland, Aden, and Cyprus, and sailed for Canada on the 24th of July last. It was originally intended that he should remain in Canada until about the middle of October, then proceed to Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Hong Kong, and Weihaiwei, recross Canada at the end of the winter season, and visit New- foundland before his return to this country.

After his arrival in Canada, however, Mr. Fisher decided, in consultation with Mr. Mackinder, whom he met at Ottawa, to vary the original programme, and visit Newfoundland before crossing the Pacific.

It is, therefore, quite possible that he may have arrived in the Colony before you receive this despatch, but in that case I am confident that on his presenting his credentials, you will have afforded him all possible facilities.

• No. 44.

† No. 2 in Miscellaneous No. 188.

(No. 428.) MY LORD,

No. 48.

JAMAICA.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received October 2, 1908.)

[Answered by No. 49.]

King's House, Jamaica, 14 September, 1908. WITH reference to your predecessor's despatch, "Miscellaneous," of the 9th July, 1907,* and to my despatch, No. 356, of the 5th August, 1908,† in which I reported that during the late extra session of the Legislative Council the sum of £55 was voted for the purpose of providing an outfit for lantern lectures in schools in this island, I have the honour to state that of this amount £35 is available for the purchase of lantern slides and lectures on the United Kingdom, and £20 for a lantern, and I shall be glad if your Lordship will be so good as to ascertain how far this sum will go towards providing material for carrying out the scheme out- lined in Lord Elgin's despatch, "General," of the 13th of December, 1906.‡

SYDNEY OLIVIER,

35802

No. 49.

JAMAICA.

I have, &c.,

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. [Answered by No. 53.]

(Miscellaneous.)

SIB,

Governor.

Downing Street, 13 October, 1908.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 428, of the 14th of September, § and to express my satisfaction at its having been found possible for Jamaica to participate in the scheme for visual instruction.

The cost of a set of slides and of copies of the book of lectures would be, approximately, £37 17s., as shown in the account of which a copy was enclosed in my predecessor's General despatch of the 13th of December, 1906, and that of a lantern and apparatus, including a supply of carbide, would be about £12 17s.

In addition, there would be charges for freight and insurance, and it would remain for your Government to arrange with that of Trinidad what proportion of the initial outlay of £82 28. 4d., in connection with the adaptation of the lectures for use in the West Indies, should be borne by Jamaica.

No. 156 in Miscellaneous No. 188. No. 119 in Miscellaneous No. 188.

I have, &c.,

CREWE

† 31388: not printed. § No. 48.