No. 119

In compliance with the instructions contained in your
Despatch No 5, of the 15th January 1859, I have duly
communicated to Captain Gosset, the Treasurer of British
Columbia, the contents of the letter you enclose from the
Colonial Agent General upon the subject of a requisition
furnished by Captain Gosset prior to his departure from
England, and more particularly with reference to that part
of the demand relating to the skeleton gear of a powerful water wheel.

2. I observe the Instructions you have given to the
Agent General to send only such Articles as cannot be made
upon the spot; a wise decision in the case of the water wheel
applied for by Captain Gosset, as without specific information
as to its kind and size, it would probably have been of no
service to the Colony and only an expenditure of money to no purpose.