No. 91, Miscellaneous
Referring to my Predecessor's Despatches No 1 dated 10th February
1864 and No 2 dated 10th February 1864, and to your Despatch No 1
dated 15th April 1864, I have the honor to state that I have not
hitherto received advices of any steps being taken for the shipment
of any of the lighthouse stores therein applied for.
I am under the necessity of troubling you with this communication
inasmuch
inasmuch as some of these stores are very urgently required.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant
A.E. Kennedy
Governor
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
In
April last the Board of Trade offered to procure & ship the stores
for the Lighthouses & were informed that this Dept
wd, on being
apprized of the amount of their Cost, instruct the Agents to repay
it. We have heard nothing further from the Bd. of Trade. Send them
a Copy of this Desp?
& request to be favored with an early communication on the subject.
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Elliot to
James Booth, Board of Trade,
5 January 1865,
forwarding copy of the despatch and requesting an early communication
on the subject.