Nias to Herbert (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I am in receipt of a communication from you by direction of
the Earl of Kimberley acknowledging my letter of the 17th June
in which you state that the "matter of my
Title to Land
pre-empted by me in
Vancouver Island
is entirely in the hands of the local authorities, from whom my
Lord Kimberley will call for an explanation."

Allow me to add that my only hope is that His Lordship will call
the local authorities to account. I have strictly complied with
the very stringent provisions of the Land Proclamation 186-, why
do they not comply with their part of the agreement? Their long
delay is ruin and misery to me.