Hawes to Under-Secretary of State Foreign Office [sic]

With reference to your Letter of the 4th Inst.
inquiring for the information of Sir E. Bulwer Lytton
whether the Stores for R. Engineer Detachment British Columbia,
lost in the "Briseis," had been insured; I am directed by
Secretary Major General Peel to state that these Stores were
not insured by this Department.