Lugard to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

With reference to that portion of your Letter of the 14th Ultimo, in
which you state that the Duke of Newcastle is desirous that 1000
Rifles of a description superior to the Brunswick Rifles recently
despatched to Vancouver's Island should be presented to the Colony
for the use of the Volunteer Force—

I am to request that you will acquaint His Grace that the state of
the Store will not admit of the full number recommended being
granted, but that Sir George Lewis has given directions for the issue
of 500 Stand of Rifles, Pattern 53, with a proper supply of ammunition.