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84 The Fraser River Mines.

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and appearance. The writer may be a stout Constable, but I think the
letter is sufficient evidence that he is a person scarcely eligible to hold
., the position of Chief Constable. I beg leave, there-
appolutment a8 Chick fore, to apply for permission to despatch Mr.
nee gs ee ee Thomas Elwyn or Mr. John C. Haynes to Lytton
to act as Chief Constable for that district. These gentlemen while
with me have afforded me great satisfaction, and I am persuaded that
either of them will exert himself to the best of his ability to perform
the duties of any office he may hold with zeal and fidelity.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) C. Brew,
Chief Inspector of Police,
As. Chief Gold Commissioner.

Lieut. Governor Moody, Victoria, VI.

Forty Vane, BiG.
26th February, 1859.

Srr,—I have the honor to inform you that the 22nd Inst. was
celebrated at Fort Yale by the citizens of the United States as the
Birthday of Washington. At noon one hundred discharges were fired
in imitation of one hundred Guns by exploding gunpowder between two
zp, anvils. The noise of each explosion was as loud as the report of
_ "the largest-sized Gun. I am informed that they subsequently
fired ten Guns as a salute to me, as they imagined that a young lad who
was brought up before Captain Whannell for firing a squib out of a
pistol in the street, and was discharged by him with a rebuke, was
released through my interference.

In the evening a ball took place at the house of a man named
Campbell. I was invited but did not go. Mr. McGowan, Mr.
Perrier,*® and others promised me that they would exert themselves to
have peace and order maintained during the night, and I particularly
requested that no pistols should be taken into the room. The utmost
harmony prevailed till the company went to supper, when some jealousy
arose about precedence for seats. A Mr. Bagly, of Hill’s Bar, abused
McGowan and called him an old grey-headed scamp. McGowan imme-

(49) George Perrier, the dismissed magistrate, but still mining on Hill’s Bar,

tion with the ‘ Neg McGowan War” will be found in Judge Begbie’s ¢
pp. 35 and 36.

His connec-
Orrespondence, ante,