Fraser to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am directed by the Governor and Committee of the Hudson's
Bay Company to transmit to you for the information of Her Majesty's
Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, the accompanying
Extract of a letter recently received from Governor Douglas from
Vancouver's Island.

In a subsequent letter written by Governor Douglas and
dated from Belmont, Esquimalt, the 17th November when, on his
way to Fraser's River Mr Douglas mentions that the Mail
Steamer from San Francisco had just come in having on board
Mr Begbie, the new Judge of British Columbia who was to
accompany him to Fort Langley.