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12.
No. 15.
COLONIAL OFFICE to the HIGH COMMISSIONER For Canada.
(Confidential.)
Downing Street, September 12, 1894. I AM directed by the Marquess of Ripon to acknowledge the receipt of your letter marked " Confidential" of the 8th instant, relating to the mission of Mr. Sandford Fleming to Honolulu in connexion with the Pacific Cable project. Lord Ripon desires me to inform you, in reply, that he has written to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, requesting that if naval requirements permit, facilities may be granted to Mr. Fleming to visit some of the Sandwich Islands in one of Her Majesty's ships, if his mission should be favourably received and this course be thought advisable.
16241.
No. 16.
I am, &c.
R. H. MEADE.
The HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR CANADA to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received September 13, 1894.)
DEAR SIR,
Victoria Chambers, 17, Victoria Street, London, S.W.,
September 12, 1894.
SIR CHARLES TUPPER wishes me to acquaint you with the contents of the following cable from the Minister of Trade and Commerce which has reached him this afternoon :--
"Our friend awaits arrival of other here."
This, of course, means that Mr. Fleming has not left, as previously intended, and that Mr. Mercer will be able to join him in Ottawa.
Yours, &c.
ARTHUR W. REYNOLDS.
18
MEMORANDUM Tе NECKER and other HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
London, September 11, 1894.
Necker Island has for many years been supposed to belong to the Hawaiian Govern- ment, but to make certain, the Hawaiian Government sent last month (May 1894), the Minister of the Interior in a steamer, and took formal possession. I do not think that anyone has landed before this for 50 or more years. They brought back some old idola, which are said to be Hawaiian and likely taken there a very long time since. No private individual has any claim to the island. I do not think there is any sandy beach or spring of water, though one might be found, as the party did not remain long on the island. There is no reason why it should not be habitable; people have been there, but for how long we do not know. Iron tanks for water, and provisions, could be taken from Honolulu. What the Hawaiian Government would do in regard to a branch cable from there, I cannot give you any information at present.
Nubau is used as a sheep farm.
Bird Island is not used for anything, the landing is not good, though some of my friends have visited the island.
All these islands to the north-west form part of a chain from Kauai, and are regarded Nubau
as belonging to the Hawaiian Government, but Nuhau is the only one inhabited. was sold by Kamehameha IV. to a Scotch family of the name of Sinclair in 1860 (or about that time) and has been used as a sheep farm ever since; there were at that date In that island were made the several hundred natives there, there are not many now. fine mats, they are not to be had now.
16409.
No. 18.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received September 17, 1894.)
Foreign Office, September 15, 1894. SIR,
WITH reference to your letter of the 30th ultimo,* I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the accompanying copy of the Despatch which has been addressed to Mr. Hawes respecting the Pacific Cable.
16242.
No. 17.
am, &c.
H. PERCY ANDERSON.
The HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR CANADA to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received September 13, 1894.)
DEAR SIR,
Victoria Chambers, 17, Victoria Street, London, S.W.,
September 12, 1894.
SIR CHARLES TUPPER wishes me to send you the enclosed copy of a note he has received from a friend of his, covering a memorandum in reference to Necker Island which he thinks will be of interest to you.
Yours, &c.
ARTHUR W. REYNOLDS.
DEAR SIR CHARLES,
Enclosure in No. 17.
106, Cannon Street, E.C., September 11, 1894.
I SEND you, enclosed, a copy of an extract from a letter received from Hawaii, giving some particulars about Necker Island, and which may be interesting in view of the protest made by New Zealand Government against its recent annexation by Hawaii. The writer knows thoroughly what he is writing about.
• No. 12.
Yours, &c.
ROBERT KAYE Gray.
Enclosure in No. 18.
FOREIGN OFFICE to ACTING COMMISSIONER HAWES.
(No. 9.)
Foreign Office, August 31, 1894.
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I AM directed by the Earl of Kimberley to transmit to you the accompanying of a letter from the Colonial Office respecting the proposed Pacific cable.† copy
You will see that at the Ottawa Conference the Canadian Government were requested to take steps to ascertain the cost of the proposed cable, and generally to prepare the way for the undertaking in accordance with the views expressed in the Conference.
An ugent will, it is understood, proceed at once to Honolulu as Delegate from the Canadian Government, to negotiate arrangements with the Hawaiian Government in connexion with the general scheme. The agent selected will be furnished by the Governor-General of Canada with a letter of introduction to you. The nature of the contemplated arrangements is indicated in the Memorandum inclosed in the Colonial Office letter.
Various papers relating to the discussions respecting the projected cable are sent for your information.
I am to instruct you to endeavour to obtain from the Hawaiian Government the right for Her Majesty's Government to occupy, by their nominees, some island in the Hawaiian You should give an explicit assurance that group for the purposes of a cable station. Hawaiian sovereignty over the island would be respected. This condition being satisfied,
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