In reply to the Secretary of State's Despatch N
o 6 dated
28th 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.