Box 606761867
Container
Contains 107 Results:
'Charter' (Home Board and Cape Town) and Cold Storage, 1897-1902
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4-C6
Charter (the British South Africa Company) (Home Board), 1897-1902
folder
Extents: 66 Leaves
Dates:
1897-1902
Charter (the British South Africa Company) (Cape Town), 1898-1901
folder
Extents: 42 Leaves
Dates:
1898-1901
Cable from Hawksley advising on procedure at the Parliamentary Commission of inquiry into the Jameson Raid, 5 Jan 1897
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 1
While agreeing that the telegrams [from Rutherfoord Harris to Rhodes about negotiations with Chamberlain in 1895?] should not, if possible, be produced, it must be established that action was taken on the basis of communication with the Colonial Office, as stated in a letter to Edward Fairfield (20 Aug 189[6?]). (In cypher, with translation.).
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
5 Jan 1897
Covering letter from Canning, Charter (the British South Africa Company), London, enclosing a letter from George Witt about inadequate compensation offered to Colenbrander for his services during the Matabele War, 15 May 1897
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 2
Cypher telegram from Stevens, not decoded, 24 May 1897
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 3
[Possibly relates to MSS. Afr. s. 227, B8, item 257, a reply en clair from Rhodes to Chamberlain's suggestion that he return for the second part of the Inquiry (20 May), and/or possibly to MSS. Afr. s. 227, B8, item 267, an undated cypher telegram from Rhodes to Stevens.]
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
24 May 1897
Letter from Grey explaining the V.V. Gwanda scheme, giving his views on the structure of the new Charter (the British South Africa Company) Board of Directors, recommending the appointment of H. Wilson Fox as Manager and Rhodes's Alternate, and referring to the appointment of George Grey [to lead an expedition to Katanga for the Tanganyika Concessions Company?], 18 Feb 1898
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 4
Letter from Julius Weil enclosing copies of mineral and trading agreements made with Linchwe, Chief of the Kgatla (25 Aug 1890-Oct 1893) and ratified by Sebele, Chief of the Bakwena, 8 Mar 1898
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 4a
Letter from Grey about ways of financing the Bechuanaland Railway, Chamberlain's helpful attitude, the need for mineral finds to reassure the Treasury; and about G.F. Watts's portrait of Rhodes and statue of Physical Energy, 11 Jun 1898
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 5
With jottings [by Rhodes] about railway agreements between the Cape, Orange Free State (South Africa), and Natal (KwaZulu-Natal).
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
11 Jun 1898
Letter from Fox, now Manager, 17 Jun 1898
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 6
About:
reorganising the London Office and redrafting the Company's constitution
working up a case for transferring the Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana) to Charter (the British South Africa Company) (see item 19)
financing the railway
Cape politics and the Redistribution Bill.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
17 Jun 1898
Letter from J.F. Jones, now London Secretary, about a loan requested by the Bulawayo Memorial Hospital, with related enclosures containing a reference to the opening of the Bulawayo Public Library, 18 Jun 1898
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 7
Letter from Fox, 1 Jul 1898
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 8
About:
the prospect of the Colonial Office handing over the Protectorate (Botswana)
the Board's policy on land occupation in Rhodesia (Zambia and Zimbabwe)
its determination not to settle with the Anglo-Portuguese Syndicate over an alleged concession from Umtasa
the Order in Council on the new Legislative Council for Rhodesia (Zambia and Zimbabwe)
...
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
1 Jul 1898
Letter from Maguire, 9 Jul 1898
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 9
About:
the Imhambane concession
Cawston and Gifford's resignations
railway matters
Cape politics
Beit's statement on Stow's Life Governorship and related financial matters
with a request for copies of the Parnell letters.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
9 Jul 1898
Covering letter from Jones accompanying enclosures from the Foreign Office about a Congo loan for extending the telegraph from Stanley Pool to Lake Tanganyika, and hopes of establishing a link with Europe via Khartoum and Egypt, 16 Jul 1898
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 10
Letter from Hawksley enclosing an estimate for the bronze casting of panels [for the Shangani/Van Riebeck memorial?] and urging Rhodes to rescind his instructions not to pay [J.] Tweed for his portrait bust, 6 Aug 1898
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 11
Covering letter from Jones intended to accompany copies of correspondence with the Colonial Office about alterations to the Charter (the British South Africa Company) and proposed Native Regulations, and confirming the text of cables exchanged between Rhodes and the London Office about the Western Boundary, 13 Aug 1898
Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 12
Letter from Maguire about the possible effects of Cape election results on the Colonial Office's policy over transferring the Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana), and about investment prospects and a possible trip to the east, 2 Sep 1898
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 13
Letter from Maguire, 25 Sep 1898
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 14
About:
the effects of the Anglo-German agreement on, inter alia, a settlement with Portugal
railway debentures
a possible share issue if mineral prospects look good
the Western Boundary
Rhodes's forthcoming trip to England.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
25 Sep 1898
Letter from A. Weston Jarvis congratulating Rhodes on mineral prospects in Rhodesia (Zambia and Zimbabwe), especially in the Gwanda and Selukwe (Shurugwi) regions, and stressing the importance of communications and fuel; with references, inter alia, to Cape politics and to Frank Rhodes, 14 Oct 1898
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C4, item 15