No. 30, Separate

Referring to my Despatch No 29 by this Mail in which I acknowledge
the latest Despatches received from you, I have the honor to report
that a telegram from San Francisco was received here this morning by
the agents of the Hudson's Bay Company announcing the total loss of
their steamer "Labouchere" off Cape Reyes on her way from San Francisco to Victoria.

This vessel having been subsidized by the Government of this Colony
for the conveyance of Mails between San Francisco and Victoria—I
have addressed a letter, of which I enclose a copy, to Her Majesty's
Consul at the former place requesting him in the event of the English
Mail viâ the West Indies of 2nd March 1866 having been on board
 the "Labouchere" and lost, to inform you of the fact by telegraph.