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No. 41.
COLONIAL OFFICE to the NEW DECIMAL ASSOCIATION,
•
Downing Street, June 20, 1894. SIR,
In reply to your letter of the 18th instant, I.am directed by the Marquess of Ripon to acquaint you that the Conference at Ottawa will meet on the 26th instant, and that he has no information as to the date when its proceedings are likely to terminate. EDWARD WINGFIELD.
am, &c.
(Signed)
SIR,
No. 45.
COLONIAL OFFICE to the DEWSBURY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Downing Street, June 28, 1894. I AM directed by the Marquess of Ripon to acknowledge the receipt of of the 18th instant* forwarding a copy of a resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of your letter Dewsbury on the subject of the apportionment of the expenditure on the navy.
I am, &c.
(Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON.
10305.
No. 42.
10769.
SIR,
COLONIAL OFFICE to GENERAL POST OFFICE.
Downing Street, June 23, 1894. I AM directed by the Marquess of Ripon to request that you will convey to the Postmaster-General his thanks for the useful memorandum on the subject of steam communication with Canada, Australia, and the East which accompanied the letter from the General Post Office of the 12th instant.†
No. 46.
THE MARQUESS OF RIPON to the EARL OF JERSEY. (Dated June 28, 1894.)
[Transmits copy of letter from the Dewsbury Chamber of 18th June 1894.+]
I am, &c.
(Signed)
EDWARD FAIRFIELD.
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No. 47.
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No. 43.
COLONIAL OFFICE to the SOCIETY OF INSPECTORS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
SIB,
Downing Street, June 26, 1894. In reply to your letter of the 19th instant suggesting that the question of introducing the decimal system should be brought before the Conference at Ottawa, I am directed by the Marquess of Ripon to acquaint you that the Conference has met on the invitation of the Government of the Dominion of Canada to discuss certain specified questions, and that Her Majesty's Government do not intend to suggest additional subjects for consideration.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
JOHN BRAMSTON.
THE CLECKHEATON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received June 29, 1894.) [Answered by No. 51.]
MY LORD,
Chamber of Commerce, Cleckheaton, June 28, 1894.
I AM instructed to forward to your Lordship the enclosed copy of a resolution passed by the Leeds Imperial Federation League, and to say that this Chamber of Commerce cordially sympathise with the sentiments therein expressed.
Your Lordship is not unaware of what this district is capable of by way of arousing and maintaining the attention of the public on matters of this nature. I am pleased, therefore, to add that the Cleckheaton Chamber, on more than one occasion, have invited their friends and neighbours to consider Federation questions in public meeting, and always with gratifying success as regards the quality and the quantity of the audience.
I am, &c. (Signed)
GEO. SYKES,
Secretary.
10745.
No. 44.
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
Downing Street, June 28, 1894. SIR,
In reply to your letter of the 20th instant,§ I am directed by the Marquess of Ripon to acquaint you, for the information of the Earl of Kimberley, that the circum- stances which led the Dominion Government to issue invitations to the Ottawa Conference and the objects of the Conference will be found set out at pp. 52–54 of the accompanying report of the Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce.
The text of the invitation is given on pp. 53 and 54.
I am to add that any reports of the discussions will be communicated to the Foreign Office in due course.
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No. 48.
THE EARL OF ABERDEEN to the MARQUESS OF RIPON. (Received June 29, 1894.)
TELEGRAPHIC.
Conference favourably inaugurated to-day. Good speeches by delegates, excellent
tone. Jersey's appointment very acceptable.
• No. 87.
↑ No. 34.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
JOHN BRAMSTON.
† No. 39.
§ No. 40.
|| Canadian Parliamentary Paper No. 58 of 1894.
• No. 36.
↑ No. 38.
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