Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 1 December 1858, CO 60:2, no. 12286, 113.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
Hammond transmits to the CO a report that “several Thousand Californians who had gone to
British Columbia have returned from thence.”
The minutes “Put by.”
Enclosed is Booker to Malmesbury advising that nearly 10,000 miners had returned from British Columbia for various and conflicting reasons, and that exports to the colony had altogether
ceased.
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
1 December 1858
Sir,
I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to
you herewith, for the information of Secretary Sir Edward Lytton, a copy of a despatch from Mr Booker, Her
Majesty's Counsul at San Francisco, stating that several
Thousand Californians who had gone to British Columbia
have returned from thence.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
William Lane Booker to Malmesbury, No. 62,
19 October 1858, advising nearly 10,000 miners had returned from
British Columbia for various and conflicting reasons, and that exports
to the colony had altogether ceased.