Powles to Newcastle

The directors of the Port Phillip Company (incorporated by Royal
Charter) of which I am Chairman, are about to send a small party to
Van Couvers Island and British Columbia for the purpose of taking
measures for the Establishment of a Company, to carry on the business
of Mining and the reduction of Ores there, in a systematic manner, as
is done by the Port Phillip Company in the Colony of Victoria.

Believing that the formation of such a Company, with suitable Capital
will tend to promote the welfare of the Colony, I take the liberty to
ask the favor of a letter of introduction to His Excellency the
Governor thereof, in favor of Mr Robert Plummer Junr of Newcastle
on Tyne, who is going to the Colony as Superintendent of the
undertaking in contemplation.