Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 17 December 1858, CO 305:9, no. 12907, 409.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (4), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
Hammond forwards to Lytton a despatch from B.T. Nicolas, British Acting Consul General in the Sandwich Islands, regarding English Merchants desire to make Victoria a free port.
The minutes forward the letter to the Board of Trade.
Enclosed is Nicolas to Malmesbury describing the general effect of making Victoria a free port “a successful rival of San Francisco [and] the great Depot of the North Pacific.”
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
December 17, 1858
Sir,
I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you
herewith, for the information of Secretary Sir Edward Lytton, a
copy of a despatch from Mr Toup
Nicolas, the British Acting
Consul General in the Sandwich Islands, relative to the views
entertained by the English Merchants in those Islands as to
Victoria in Vancouver's Island being made a free Port.
Herman Merivale Esqre
&c &c &c
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Merivale
A copy of the Consuls letter might be sent to the Board of Trade? L[ithographed] F[orm].
A copy of the Consuls letter might be sent to the Board of Trade? L[ithographed] F[orm].
Bd of Trade.
C
D. 18
The Board of Trade have recd a Copy of the Consuls letter from
the Foreign Office. See 13147.
the Foreign Office. See 13147.
VJ
24 Decr
See 13147.
HM
D 29
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
B.T. Nicolas, Acting Consul General, Woahoo, to Malmesbury, 7 October 1858, describing the general effect of making Victoria a free port.