668 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
No. 25. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received January 8.) 
DOWNING STREET, January 8, 1891. 
Srr: With reference to previous correspondence, I am directed by 
Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, for the information of the Marquis 
of Salisbury, a vopy of a despatch from the Governor-General of Canada, 
forwarding a further Minute of the Privy Council, submitting a letter 
from the Collector of Customs at British Columbia as to the catch of 
seals in Behring’s Sea during the season of 1890. 
Iam, &c. 
(Signed) R. H. MEADE. 
78 [Inclosure 1 in No. 25.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
GOVERNMENT HouskE, Ottawa, December 12, 1890. 
My Lonrp: With further reference to the subject of my despatch of the 28th ultimo 
in regard to the catch of seals in the Behring’s Sea, I have the honour to inclose a copy 
of an approved Minute of the Privy Council, submitting a letter from the Collector 
of Customs at Victoria, British Columbia, containing supplementary information as 
to the season’s catch of seals by British Columbian vessels. 
Thave, &e. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 25.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Excellency 
the Governer-General in Council on the 5th December, 1890. 
On a report, dated the 1st December, 1890, from the Minister of Marine and Fish- 
eries, Submitting, with reference to the Minute of Council of the 15th November, 
1890, respecting this season’s catch of seals by vessels sailing from British Columbia, 
in supplement thereto a letter received from the Collector of Customs of the Port of 
Victoria, British Columbia, under date the 11th November, 1890, and which is annexed: 
The Committee, on the recommendation of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, 
advise that your Excellency be moved to forward a copy of this Minute to the Prin- 
cipal Secretary of State for the Colonies for submission to her Majesty's Government. 
All which is respectfully submitted for your Excellency’s approval. 
(Signed) JOHN J. MCGEE, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
[Inclosure 3 in No. 25.] 
Mr. Milne to Mr. Tupper. 
VicToria, BRITISH COLUMBIA, November 11, 1890. 
Sir: I have the honour, in further reference to your telegrams of the 15th and 16th 
ultimo, to say that since my letter of the 30th ultimo I have had interviews with 
those masters of schooners that remained the latest in the Behring’s Sea, and who 
were most fortunate in getting a large catch. Amongst the masters, W. E. Baker, 
master of the schooner ‘ Viva,” whose catch was 2,015 in Behring’s Sea, and also 
V. J. Jacobsen, master of the schooner ‘‘ Minnie.” These men being intelligent and 
careful mariners, on being questioned by me.separately declared that they have never 
seen the seals more plentiful than just before they left Behring’s Sea; Jacobsen say- 
ing that with his Indian crew, the few days before leaving the sealing-grounds, the 
Indians would bring 250 to 275 on board daily, but that the weather was very boister- 
ous, foggy, and bad, interfering very much with their operations. 
