I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatch
               
Vancouver Island, No. 1 of 
1st of January 1867, respecting
               the intended payment to his Mother of the property left
by
 by the
               late 
John Curry.  Your Lordship enquires if a letter on the
               subject from 
Mr Pease M.P. who has interested himself in it has been
               received by 
Mr Young, and if so, what has been done in the matter?
               
               2.  On application to 
Mr Young I learn that he did receive
               
Mr Pease's letter and that he replied on the 
22nd of
                  December last stating that the Colonial Agents had been authorized
               to pay to 
Mrs Curry the sum of sixty six pounds
fourteen
 fourteen shillings
               (£66.14), less charges of remittance &c upon their being satisfied
               that she was the Mother of the deceased Intestate, 
John Curry.
               Further that the money might be paid into 
Mr Pease's hands upon
               order from 
Mrs Curry.