With reference to Your Grace's despatch No 25 of the
               
18 May, forwarding a letter from 
M T.M. Magee relative
               to some property left by one 
Bernard Rice who was shot at 
Yale,
               British
               
British
                  
               Columbia
               
                Columbia
               Columbia
               Columbia in 
December 1858, I have now the honor to
               transmit for your Grace's information copy of a Report I have
               received from 
M Whannell late Justice of the Peace at 
Yale,
               into whose charge the effects of the deceased were given.
               
               2. 
M Whannell's explanation of the disposition
               
he
               
               he made
               of 
Rice's effects appears to me to be satisfactory, and I
               am unable after diligent enquiry to furnish Your Grace with
               information on this subject from any other quarter.