Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Storks, Major General Henry Knight to Merivale, Herman 1 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 9977, 372.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1), Marginalia (1).
Storks forwards from the Comptroller of Transport Services the additional cost of sending
the “Thames City” and the “Briseis” up the Fraser River.
Enclosed is Merivale to the Under-Secretary of State for War conveying Lytton’s “extreme surprise” on learning from Moody that the vessels were chartered only to Vancouver Island, since the Colonial Office had requested transport to British Columbia, and that the additional transport costs to Fraser River would be high; and Richards to the Secretary to the Admiralty reporting the extra cost to convey the detachment
to British Columbia.
Storks to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Immediate
War Office
1 October 1858
Sir
With reference to your Letter of the 17
ulto
1
in which it is suggested that an arrangement should be entered into with
the Owners of the "Thames City" and "Briseis," engaged for the conveyance
of the Detachment under order for British Columbia, to send those vessels
forward to the Fraser Riverin
in the event of its being found desirable to
do so, I am directed to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a Memorandum
from the Comptroller of Transport Services stating the additional expense
which will thereby be incurred.
in the event of its being found desirable to
do so, I am directed to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a Memorandum
from the Comptroller of Transport Services stating the additional expense
which will thereby be incurred.
Major General Peel would wish to be informed whether Sir E.B. Lytton
is of opinion that the rates proposed, which the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty state that they consider very high, should be accepted.
2
This is contained [illegible] in the Lr from the Admty
to the War Office.
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Merivale to Under-Secretary of State for War, 1 October 1858,
conveying Lytton's "extreme surprise" on learning from Moody that the
vessels were chartered only to Vancouver Island, since the Colonial
Office had requested transport to British Columbia, and that the
additional transport costs to Fraser River would be so high.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Charles Richards, Comptroller of Transport Services, Admiralty,
to Secretary to the Admiralty, 30 September 1858, reporting the
extra cost to convey the detachment to British Columbia.
Footnotes
- = CO-WO, 27? Sep 58, summary RE transport A draft of this letter appears in Moody to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary), 24 September 1858, 9808, CO 60/3, p. 289. Check mf; 27 ulto = 17??
- FIND AD-WO ?? Check enclosure??, Storks to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary), 1 October 1858, 9977, CO 60/2, p. 372.