Colonial Despatches

Public Offices document. Minutes (3), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).

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Briggs transmits a letter extract from Hastings describing the state of Affairs at the Church Mission Station of Kincaulitt at the mouth of the Naas River. Cox’s minute suggests thanking Briggs for the letter. Elliot’s minutes relates why public departments should not be thanked for forwarding reports. The included document describes Porcher’s investigation of disturbances among the Nisga’a at Gingolx.