In reply to the Secretary of State's Despatch N 6 dated 
28 March
                  1864, I have the honor to inform you that 
Richard Hatcher is acting
               as cook at the Steamboat Hotel in 
Esquimalt in this Colony. This man
               is said to have arrived in the Colony in 
November 1862 by the
               "
Silistria"—to be a native of Hampshire, and to have left a wife
               keeping the Station Hotel, Wellingborough,
Northamptonshire
 Northamptonshire. He has
               lately bought 150 acres of land in the Colony.