Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Grenville, Richard to Seymour, Governor Frederick 25 August 1868, NAC :, 331.
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Grenville, Richard to Seymour, Governor Frederick 25 August 1868, NAC :, 331.
Despatch from London.
Other documents (5).
No. 65
25 August 1868
Sir,
I have the honor to transmit to you for your information and
in continuation of my despatch No. 32 of the 16th June copies of a
correspondence between the War Office, this Department and the Crown
Agents relative to the supply of a set of Targets for theVancouver
Vancouver
Island Volunteer Corps.
Vancouver
Island Volunteer Corps.
Other documents included in the file
Copy, Storks to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, 27 June 1868, regarding the set of Targets for the Vancouver Island Volunteer Corps.
A set of drawings and specifications regarding the supplied Targets, as mentioned
in the above despatch.
Copy, Rogers to the Crown Agents, 3 July 1868, asking for the cost of the Targets "according to the War Office Specification which
would be suitable for Rifle practice."
Copy, Sargeaunt to Rogers, 19 August 1868, returning the drawings and speifications of the Targets and stating that they could
be suppplied at £4 each but that "they cannot report favorably of the Targets, the
impact of the bullets in a very short time so bends and breaks the plate as to render
them useless; they recommened a differnt type of target as being cheaper and stronger.
Copy, Rogers to Roscoe, 25 August 1868, enclosing a letter respecting the cost of a set of Targets "requested for the Rifle
practice of the Vancouver Island Volunteer Corps."