Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Wodehouse, John to Musgrave, Anthony 20 October 1870, NAC RG7:G8C/17, 437.
Abstract
Wodehouse, John to Musgrave, Anthony 20 October 1870, NAC RG7:G8C/17, 437.
Despatch from London.
Enclosures (untranscribed) (2).
No. 29
Downing Street
20 October 1870
Sir,
I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a letter which the
Hudson Bay Company have addressed home complaining that the Colonial
Government fail to give them any assistance in attempting to check the
illegaltraffic
traffic in spirituous liquors with the Indians on the coast.
traffic in spirituous liquors with the Indians on the coast.
I cannot too strongly impress upon you that it is the duty of the
Local Government to exert itself to the utmost in the prevention of this
trade, the results of which wherever it has been allowed to grow up have
been at once ruinous to the Indians, and destructive of peace and good
order.
I have to request that you will report to me whether Ordinance No.
28 of 1867 has beenstrictly
strictly enforced, or whether its provisions are not
sufficiently stringent enough to effect the object for which it was
passed.
strictly enforced, or whether its provisions are not
sufficiently stringent enough to effect the object for which it was
passed.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Sir F. Northcote to Sir F. Rogers, 11 October 1870, complaining of the Colonial Government's failure to provide assistance to the Hudson's Bay Company regarding the traffic of liquor.
Extract of letter from Chief Factor James A. Grahame to W.G. Smith
Esq. dated Victoria, British Columbia 2 September 1870.