XML | Preceding document | Next document | Cite this document

Despatch from London
Grenville, Richard to Seymour, Frederick 25 August 1868, NAC RG7:G8C/15, 331.

Abstract
Despatch from London. Other documents (5).
Buckingham transmits correspondence between the War Department, the Crown Agents, and the Colonial Office regarding supplying Targets for the Vancouver Island Volunteer Corps. included documents describe the recommended targets to send to Vancouver Island and their cost.
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 theVancouverManuscript image Vancouver Island Volunteer Corps.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most obedient
humble Servant
Buckingham & Chandos
Other documents included in the file
Manuscript image
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.
Manuscript image
A set of drawings and specifications regarding the supplied Targets, as mentioned in the above despatch.
Manuscript image
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."
Manuscript image
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."
Manuscript image
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."