Taylor to Newcastle

I have the honor to inform you that the Solicitor of certain
gentlemen who propose to join Messrs Easterby Gray & Rooney in taking
the Lease of a portion of Queen Charlotte's Island has intimated to me
that it would 
be very satisfactory to them to learn any particulars of
the discovery of Gold in the locality pointed out by Mr Easterby &
his Partners or in other parts of the Island which may have reached Her
Majesty's Governmt & which your Grace might be pleased to permit to
be 
communicated to them.

I understand the arrangements between Mr Easterby & these
gentlemen who are to be proposed by him to your Grace as his Co-Lessees
are nearly complete, but that they would value very much a corroboration
of the evidence which they have already received, & I should be much
gratified by receiving from your Grace 
any intimation whether you may
think it right to communicate to these Gentlemen the Reports on this
discovery received from the Officers of the Ship of War who have
surveyed the locality or any parts of them.