Kimberley to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I beg to transmit to you the accompanying Extract of a letter
from Mr W.F. Tolmie the Hudsons Bay Company's principal Officer
in Vancouvers Island dated Victoria 28th May 1868 in reference
to the title to a lot of land in that Town known as "lot Z,"
which has been the subject of previous correspondence between
the Colonial Office and the Company.

I also enclose a copy of a letter to Mr Tolmie dated Victoria
May 27th last from Mr Lowenberg the owner of the said lot.

By these documents you will observe that upon the title to "lot
Z" there appears still some doubt in the minds of the Colonial
authorities in British Columbia, although the matter was
understood to have been finally settled by the Secretary of
State as announced in your letter to the Governor of the Company
dated November 22nd 1865.

I have therefore to request you will move His Grace the Duke of
Buckingham and Chandos to instruct the Governor of British
Columbia to withdraw the claim on the part of the Colonial
Government to the land in question.