BRITISH, COLONIAL AND OTHEE CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 339 



No. XIII. 



Letter from Governor Boyle to Premier Bond testifying to the 

 splendid work of the Premier and his Mimsters. 



GOVERNMENT HOUSE, 

 St. John's., Newfoundland, 20th April, 190 4. 



DEAR SIR ROBERT BOND, I send you herewith the telegraphic reply 

 which I have received from the Secretary of State to the message 

 which I sent on the 15th current, containing the text of Minute of 

 the Committee of Council submitted on that day. 



Mr. Lyttelton answers all remaining questions, his reply is con- 

 clusive as to the conservation of all the rights of our fishermen ; and 

 it is the authoritative declaration of His Majesty's Government as 

 to the effect of the Convention. 



/ congratulate you, your colleagues and the whole community 

 most cordially on the splendid results which have been obtained, and 

 I wish here to repeat what I said to you last evening that your 

 every action throughout the negotiations has been in defence of the 

 Colony's interest, and to secure to all here the fullest protection as 

 regards existing rights, and the greatest advantages under any new 

 conditions. 



I shall be glad indeed when you can make the whole correspondence 

 public, and so put a stop to the clamour which has been raised, and 

 which is calculated to do much mischief unless the alarm is speedily 

 allayed. 



This I think you can now do, and I feel assured that the statements 

 which you will make, and the action which you will take in the mat- 

 ter, will convince the people of the advantages which have been 

 gained for them one and all, and of the whole-hearted and patriotic 

 policy which you have consistently pursued. 

 Believe me to be, yours sincerely, 



CAVENDISH BOYLE, 

 Governor of Newfoundland. 



No. XIV. 



Despatch from Secretary Lyttelton to Governor Boyle, in reply to 

 No. XI. declaring that the twentieth of October clause does not 

 apply to Newfoundland -fishermen. 



[Received 19th April, 1904.] 



The effect of the convention is to maintain all the existing rights 

 of British fishermen and to give them in addition equal rights of 

 fishing during the summer which they have not enjoyed hitherto. 

 They are in no sense prohibited from the winter fishery whilst their 

 liberty to fish after the 20th of October remains undisturbed, and 

 that the Convention can be construed so as to impair that liberty 

 is not admitted by His Majesty's Government. 



ALFRED LYTTELTON, 

 Secretary of State for the Colonies. 

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