Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Yale, James Murray to Fortescue, Chichester 12 December 1860, CO 305:15, no. 11503, 270.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (4), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
Murray to Fortescue (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)
12 December 1860
I am directed by Lord John Russell to transmit to you a copy of a
letter from the Hawaiian Consul General in this country, inclosing
the commission of Mr Henry Rhodes, who has been appointed to act as
Consul for His Hawaiian Majesty in Vancouver's
Vancouver's Island; and I am to
request that you will move the Duke of Newcastle to inform His
Lordship, whether His Grace sees any objection to the issue of Her
Majesty's Exequatur in favour of Mr Rhodes.
Vancouver's Island; and I am to
request that you will move the Duke of Newcastle to inform His
Lordship, whether His Grace sees any objection to the issue of Her
Majesty's Exequatur in favour of Mr Rhodes.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
It appears from the enclosure that the Col: Secretary has stated to Mr Rhodes that the Govr has no objection to his acting as Hawaiian Consul, but I suppose we must adhere to the usual course and ask the Govr—L[ithographed] F[orm]?.
It appears from the enclosure that the Col: Secretary has stated to Mr Rhodes that the Govr has no objection to his acting as Hawaiian Consul, but I suppose we must adhere to the usual course and ask the Govr—L[ithographed] F[orm]?.
VJ
13 Decr
Mr Jadis
I do not see the Enclosures of the Foreign Office letter. Procure them and if the Colonial Secretary's letter be correctly described, I think that it could be vexatious to cause the delay and trouble of a reference to the Governor for an opinion which we shall already possess in an authentic shape.
I do not see the Enclosures of the Foreign Office letter. Procure them and if the Colonial Secretary's letter be correctly described, I think that it could be vexatious to cause the delay and trouble of a reference to the Governor for an opinion which we shall already possess in an authentic shape.
TFE
13 Decr
Mr Jadis
From these it appears that the Governor particularly informed Mr Rhodes that his letter was meant to be available for the purpose of obtaining the formal recognition of HM's Govt. I am very glad that we ascertained this, and did not write back again all the way to British Columbia to ask the Governor whether he objected; as I am afraid it would have given us a sad character for red-tapism.
From these it appears that the Governor particularly informed Mr Rhodes that his letter was meant to be available for the purpose of obtaining the formal recognition of HM's Govt. I am very glad that we ascertained this, and did not write back again all the way to British Columbia to ask the Governor whether he objected; as I am afraid it would have given us a sad character for red-tapism.
Draft a letter agreeing to the appointment.
TFE
14 Decr
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Manley Hopkins, Hawaiian Consul General, to Russell, 3
December 1860, enclosing documents (not in file) in support
of the appointment of Rhodes and asking that Her Majesty's exequatur be procured.
Other documents included in the file
Draft,
Elliot to E. Hammond, Foreign Office, 14 December 1860, stating the
secretary of state had no objection to the appointment of Rhodes.