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No. 116.
NEWFOUNDLAND.
MR. A. W. HARVEY (PATRIOTIC FUND ́OF NEWFOUNDLAND) to COLONIAL OFFICE.
SIR,
(Received July 20, 1900.)
[Answered by No. 119.]
London, July 19, 1900,
I HAVE the honour, at the request of the Committee of the Patriotic Fund of Newfoundland, to transmit herewith the sum of £1,021 148., making with the amount previously remitted a total of £4,021 14s. for the fund.
I also beg to enclose the report of the Committee and the audited account of the Treasurer.
I have, &c.,
A. W. HARVEY, Hon. Treasurer.
: Enclosure 2 in No. 116.
THE PATRIOTIC FUND IN ACCOUNT WITH A. W. HARVEY, HON, TREASURER.
Dr.
Cr.
Dec. 23. To I. W, McCoubrey's bill
for printing
S
t.
1899. By amounts of subscription
$
C.
55 50
Dee. 30. To G. S. Milligan's bill for
stationery Mar. 30. To G. S. Milligan's bill for
books, &c. May 31. To Rev. Canon Pilor,
sundries...
lists as published in the public press
18,870 31
8 56
3 06
1900), By amounts of subscription
Tists lost in printer's hatids and very small amounts.....
865 39
10 12
Feb. 28. To £3,000 sterling reuit- ted Commissioners of Patriotic Fund, London, To amount paid to Mr. Thompson for clerical Aervices ...
June 6. To sight draft on London
for £1,018 16s. 1. sterl ing, balance of amount collected, (« S4 Stj
11,800 00
TOR
4,958
8,735 70
17
19,735 70
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.885
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Enclosure 1 in No. 116.
To His Excellency The Honourable doseru I. LITTLE, Administrator of the Government of Newfoundland.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,
THE Committee appointed by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Henry McCallum, pursuant to a resolution passed at a meeting of citizens on the 20th day of November last, for the purpose of collecting money in aid of the widows and orphans of Imperial sófliers who 'may be left destitute by the war in South Africa, beg to report that entering upon their pleasant work, they soon discovered that their duties would be lightened by the general enthusiasm throughout the Colony evidencing the desire among all classes to help in the accomplishment of the object in view.
Voluntary contributions poured in of such a description and to such an extent as proved that the spirit of loyalty for which the fishermen of Newfoundland have always been distinguished had not abated.
Your Committee beg to forward herewith an account of the funds collected and their disposition. There has been remitted to the Royal Commissioners of the Patriotic Fun!. London, the sum of £3,000 sterling (equal to $14,600) and there is now a balance in hand of $4,988 17 cents., which they have requested the Treasurer, the Honourable Augustus W. Harvey (who is about to visit England) to pay over to the President of the Commissioners.
It is worthy of a place in this report that your Committee solicited the Government for help towards this fund, and we were gratified subsequently to learn that the Legislature had made a contribution of $20,000 thereto.
Your Committee cannot close a report of the manner in which they have discharge! the agreeable task imposed upon them without an expression of their appreciation of the zealous enthusiasm with which the Reverend Canon Pilot first procured signatures to the petition for a meeting of citizens, arranged the programme for that meeting, and volunteered to perform the duties of secretary, which have been most efficiently discharged, and which have contributed in a large degree to the successful issue which Your Committee have now to report.
All which is respectfully submitted.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
W. V. WHITEWAY (Chairman),
Committee.
J. J. ROGERSON (and 11 others), S
June 12. To sight draft on London
for transmission to Coin- missioners of Patriotic Fund, £2 178. 11d.
14
10
Audited and found correct,
F. E., Saint John's, N.F., June, 1900.
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GENTLEMEN,
JOHN COWARD.
No. 117.
14 10
By aniounts received since above and published in press
A. W. HARVEY, Hon. Treasurer.
TURKS ISLANDS.
COMMISSIONER CAMERON to THE CROWN AGENTS.
(Received in Colonial Office, July 23, 1900.)
Commissioner's Office, Turks Islands, June 28, 1900.
I HAVE the honour to ask that, immediately on receipt of this, you will be so good as to pay over to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, for account of the Mansion House War Fund for the relief of the Transvaal War sufferers, a further sum of £17 1s. 2d., which has been raised by public subscription and handed to me for trans- mission.
The amount has been paid into the Treasury here.
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I have, &c.,
EDWARD J. CAMERON;
Commissioner.
No. 118.
NEWFOUNDLAND.
COLONIAL OFFICE to the ROYAL PATRIOTIC FUND COMMISSION.
Downing Street, July 27, 1900.
SIR,
Wiru reference to your letter of the 21st May* and to previous correspondence, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, to be laid before His Royal Highness the President of the Commission of the Royal Patriotic Fund, copy of a letters
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from the Honourable A. W. Harvey, forwarding a draft for £1,021 14s., being the balance of the money's collected by the Committee of the Patriotic Fund of Newfoundland for the benefit of the widows and orphans of those who have fallen or may fall in South Africa,
2. Mr. Harvey's letter also submits copies of the Report of the Committee, and of the account rendered by hin as Honorary Treasurer.
3. Mr. Chamberlain has much pleasure in handing over the amount to His Royal· Highness to be expended in the same manner as the sums previously received from Newfoundland.
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I am, &c.,
11. BERTRAM COX.
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