Lugard to Under-Secretary of State

In reference to your letter of 2nd Instant, requesting that the 500
Rifles measuring 7 tons and 150000 Pounds of Ball Ammunition
contained in 131 Quarter Barrels, ordered to be supplied to the
Vancouver Island Colony, might be conveyed in the Ship of War about
to proceed to that Station. I am directed by Secretary Sir G Lewis
to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a communication received from
the Admiralty stating that the Ship in question is unable to receive
the Stores, and to request I may be informed by what means of
Conveyance the Duke of Newcastle would wish the Arms and Ammunition
to be forwarded to their destination.