Bacher and Eschwege to Gairdner (Chief Clerk)

A certain Dr Max Pfeiffer, native of Germany is in the newspapers
reported to have been murdered in British Columbia in August last.
He was for a long time practising physician at San Francisco,
where he received a few years ago about £3000 from his family; &
the latter wish to ascertain his reported end & in case of his
death what had become of his property.

Please to have the necessary inquiry made in British Columbia
& to inform us meanwhile w[h]ether and when we may expect to learn
the result.