Shepherd to Labouchere

I have the honour to enclose for your information Copy of a letter
just received from Governor Douglas, dated Victoria, Vancouver's Island,
4th May 1857, together with Copy of a Report by Mr Joseph
Pemberton, Colonial Surveyor, referred to therein, on the subject of
Sales of Land in Vancouvers Island, by which you will see that the
modification in the terms of payment for land, made under your sanction,
appears to have given a stimulus to the demand for Lots of land for
agricultural purposes in Vancouver's Island.