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a degree of probity, of good order—aye, and intelligence, that I was
not prepared to expect.

Gentlemen, I have now done and I have only further to wish
you all well.

Victor1A, VANCOUVER’s ISLAND,
27th December, 1858.

Dear Mr. BracKwoop,—I have much pleasure in acknowledging
your note of the lst of November last, accompanying Sir Edward
Lytton’s Despatch No. 35 of the Ist of November ; which though
unsigned will meet with all due attention and respect.

Col: Moody? and party arrived here on the 25th, not in time,
I regret to say, to take part in our Christmas festivities, which would
have been all the gayer for his presence. Our quarters are rather
crowded at this moment, in consequence of so many official arrivals,
and the want of official residences, but we have contrived through the
kindness of friends to procure temporary house accommodation for
the whole party.

The weather is at present fine, and the opposite hills still retain their
hue of green; a single Castile rose, somewhat faded, was picked yes-
terday, and the humble Daisy-heart’s Ease, and wall flower, growing
exposed in my garden, have not yet entirely lost their bloom. Those
few facts will perhaps give a clearer idea of the climate than any
description.

With respect and best wishes very faithfully

James Dovctas.

The Mail Steamer will leave in a very short time—and I will there-
fore probably have no time to address Sir Edward Lytton by the present
mail in reply to his late Despatches.—J. Dovucuas.

Sunpay Mornrne,
October 17th, 1858.
To His Excellency Governor Douglas.
May IT PLEASE Your EXcELLENCY:

I have the honour of acquainting Your Excellency that another
attempt at murder was committed on Friday, and this morning little
or no hopes are entertained of the poor man’s recovery.? I have taken
the depositions of the wounded man, and properly attested; all that

(2) Colonel Richard Clement Moody, the commanding officer of the detachment of Royal Engi-
neers which was sent out to aid in the maintenance of order and the development of the colony.

(3) The killing of Isaac C. Miller by Henry Post. The trouble arose over the right to a claim
at Madison Bar above Yale. Post claimed the ground, as being the first upon it, but Miller
denied his right because he had never worked the ground nor staked it off.

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