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(Secret and Confidential.)

Sir,

172

No. 305 A.

Colonial Office to War Office.

Downing Street, August 22, 1878.

I AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you, for the consideration of Secretary Colonel Stanley, the inclosed printed correspondence relative to the defence of Table Bay and Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope.*

2. It will be seen that the Colonial Defence Committee suggest certain modifications and additions in the armament for the defence of Table Bay, and on being informed of Colonel Stanley's views with regard to these proposals, Sir Michael Hicks Beach will apply to the Treasury for authority for any increased expenditure which may be rendered

necessary.

Sir Michael Hicks Beach has, however, received a letter from the Admiralty, copy of which it is stated has been sent to you, inclosing a copy of a Report from Commodore Sullivan on the defence of Simon's Town, and from that paper it would appear that some of the works proposed by the Colonial Defence Committee to be altered to enable them to receive heavier guns have by this time been completed, and it would therefore seem probable that the smaller total cost estimated by the Committee would now fall short of the amount required.

I am, &c.

R. H. MEADE.

(Signed)

No. 306.

War Office to Colonial Office.

War Office, August 23, 1878.

(Confidential.) Sir,

IN reply to your letter of the 6th instant,† requesting to be supplied, for the use of the Government of South Australia, with a complete set of the publications issued from the War Office with respect to torpedoes, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to transmit copies of confidential Reports, &c., described in the annexed list, and to state that the desire of the South Australian Government to be furnished with copies of future Reports relating to torpedoes will be complied with.

I have, &c.

(Signed)

Inclosure in No. 306.

List of Publications.

RALPH THOMPSON.

PROCEEDINGS of the Torpedo Committee from 1870 to 1874. (No. 17.) Précis of a Report on the United States Submarine Mining Establishment. Willet's Point. By Lieutenant Barker, R.E.

1873.

Report of the Experiments conducted by the War Office Torpedo Committee,

Report of the experiments conducted by the War Office Torpedo Committee, 1874-75.

Report of the experiments conducted by the War Office Torpedo Committee, 1875-76.

Extract from the Proceedings of the Royal Engineers' Committee, 1877. Notes on Defence by Submarine Mines. By Lieutenant-Colonel Stotherd, R.E.

No. 307.

Admiralty to Colonial Office.

Admiralty, August 24, 1878.

(Confidential.) Sir,

I AM commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th instant, transmitting a copy of a despatch from the Acting Governor of South Australia, requesting to be supplied with certain confidential

* Nos. 187, 200, 202, and 253.

+ No. 271.

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