Head to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

For the information of Her Majestys Secretary of State for the
Colonies I have the honour herewith to transmit—

1. Extract of a letter from Roderick Finlayson Esquire to the
Secretary of the Hudsons Bay Company dated Victoria 7th September
1864.

2. Copy of a letter from P. Medana Chairman of a Public Meeting
of the inhabitants of Victoria held on the 27th July 1864 to
Roderick Finlayson Esquire and the Agents of the Hudsons Bay Company
dated September 5th 1864.

3. Copies of Resolutions adopted by the said
Meeting—Presentment by the Grand Jury—Correspondence with the
Colonial Government and other documents enclosed in Mr Medana's
letter to Mr Finlayson.

The whole of these documents have reference to a measure adopted by
Governor Kennedy in causing barriers to be placed across several
of the streets leading to the piece of land granted to the Community
by this Company.

Resolutions were passed at the Meeting to the effect that great
inconvenience and injustice to the public as well as injury to
property would result from the closing of those streets and the Grand
Jury take the same view of the case. By the last Mail we learn that
considerable excitement existed on the subject and that, on the
refusal of the Governor to remove the barricades, the people had
themselves pulled them down.