Wolleyto Under-Secretary of State

I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
request you will inform the Earl of Kimberley that Rear Admiral
Farquhar in a letter dated the 17th January reports that the
"Scylla" had left Esquimalt on the 4th October last to visit
Nanaimo, Bute Inlet, Port Augusta, Departure Bay and Burrard
Inlet; also that the "Sparrowhawk" had been employed conveying
the Governor of British Columbia on a tour of inspection,
visiting the various ports on the Coast of Vancouver, and had
afterwards proceeded to Nanaimo to prevent outrages on the part
of the disaffected miners.