No. 52, Miscellaneous

In reply to the Secretary of State's Despatch No 6 dated 28th March
1864, I have the honor to inform you that Richard Hatcher is acting
as cook at the Steamboat Hotel in Esquimalt in this Colony. This man
is said to have arrived in the Colony in November 1862 by the
"Silistria"—to be a native of Hampshire, and to have left a wife
keeping the Station Hotel, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He has
lately bought 150 acres of land in the Colony.