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N.B.-Though in this Return the naval contingent is divided into two classes, i.e., the crews of Appendix No. 4. gun-boats and the signal detachment, it has been so calculated that the gun-boats are overmanned, in order that their crews, though nominally attached to each gun-boat, are over strength for the actual service of the gun-boats, the over surplus.

(D.)—RETURN showing Steam-vessels belonging to Colonial Government.

MAURITIUS.

Name.

Horse-

power.

Consumption of Coal Daily.

Speed.

Draught of Water.

No. of Crew.

Guns capable of Carrying.

Tug "Stella"

200

12 tons

Tug

"Clovis "

50

4 tons

10.9 10.5

12 feet

20

9 feet

12

4 64-pr. M.L. 4 20-pr. B. L.

(Signed)

(Signed)

C. A. CRAUFURD, Commander, R.N., Harbour-Master

and Superintendent of Mercantile Marine. C. G. GORDON, Lieutenant-Colonel, R.E., and

Brevet-Colonel, President.

(E)-DETAIL of Annual Cost of Military Contingent as proposed by Committee of Defence,

1 Commandant, 1 Brigade Major, subordinate staff Royal Artillery--

..

1st August, 1881.

£

1,785

1 Major, Captain, 2 Subalterns, 120 non-commissioned officers and men

•

3,321

Royal Engineers—

I Captain, 1 Subaltern, 20 non-commissioned officers and men

1,729

Staff and Department→

Commissariat and staff

£

2,521

Medical, 4 doctors and establishment

3,461

Transport

3,000

Ordnance and staff

Works and buildings

•

1,490

Royal Engineer Department

380

3,000

Provisions, 2,7607.; fuel and light, 1,2007.

13,852 3,960

27,367

Memorandum.-If the Officer Commanding Royal Artillery's suggestion of 160 in- stead of 120 Royal Artillery is accepted, then an additional 2 officers and 40 non-commissioned officers and men

1,200

Total

28,567

(Signed)

C. G. GORDON, Lieutenant-Colonel, R.E., and

Brevet-Colonel, President.

No. 46.

Sir,

Colonial Office to Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad.

Downing Street, November 3, 1881.

I AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Admiralty, dated the 21st October, relative to the periodical employment of a gun-boat at Mauritius, for the information of the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad, with reference to the letter from this Department of the 19th September.*

I am, &c. (Signed)

Inclosure in No. 46. Admiralty to Colonial Office.

ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.

Sir,

Admiralty, October 21, 1881.

I HAVE laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 16th ultimo, forwarding a further letter from the Lieutenant-Governor of Mauritius respecting the periodical employment of a gun-boat at Mauritius and its dependencies.

2. My Lords desire me to request that you will state to the Earl of Kimberley, in reply, that they have received a Report from the Commander-in-chief in the East Indies on the subject, and they are unable to modify the reply sent to you on the 14th May last, to the effect that, while the Commander- in-chief would be instructed to give every assistance in his power to the Lieutenant-Governor of Mauritius, the strength of the squadron is not sufficient to make the periodical arrangement which is requested.

I am,

[1103]

(Signed)

* No. 44.

&c.

ROBERT HALL

2 L

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