Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Rowlandson, Thomas to Stanley, Edward Henry 19 May 1858, CO 6:29, no. 6128, 190.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (1).
Rowlandson informs Stanley that the rumours of abundant gold in New Caledonia appear to be true. Rowlandson believes that the richness of the region
will exceed in that respect anything heretofore known.
The minutes
Put byas the enclosure is a duplicate the CO has already received and answered.
The accompanying letter is the duplicate of one previously forwarded. The news by the last mail from Frazer River, fully confirms the previous rumours respecting the extraordinary richness of New Caledonia as a gold region, from private and pretty accurate sources. I may observe that I am tempted to believe that it will exceed in that respect anything
heretofore known
