No. 2

With reference to my despatch No. 146 of the 22nd
November 1867, I feel compelled to make some additional remarks
respecting Mr
Waddington's project of opening a road from the Pacific at Bute
Inlet to the frontiers of Canada. I am told that he has been
lecturing with some success on the subject in Canada. It is
therefore my duty to say, although I should be glad to see
Capitalists spend their money in the Colony, that I believe the
line proposed by Mr
Waddington is about the worst that could have been selected.
I may mention in support of this assertion that the New
Westminster Volunteers when in persuit [sic] of the Chilicoten
murderers found themselves unable to penetrate to the Interior
by way of Bute Inlet but reached the centre of the Colony when
Bentinck Arm was taken as a point of departure.