Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Wodehouse, First Earl of Kimberley John
to
Musgrave, Sir Anthony 29 April 1871, NAC :, 97.
Abstract
Wodehouse, First Earl of Kimberley John
to
Musgrave, Sir Anthony 29 April 1871, NAC :, 97.
Despatch from London.
No. 33
29 April 1871
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 30 of the
24th March in which you express an opinion that it will be expedient to
postpone Legislation in regard to the prohibition of the export of Arms
from the Colony, until after British Columbia shallhave
have been admitted
into Union with the Dominion of Canada.
have been admitted
into Union with the Dominion of Canada.
In reply I have to inform you that I concur in that opinion.