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Despatch to London
Seymour, Frederick to Grenville, Richard 10 December 1868, CO 60:33, no. 801, 624.

Abstract
Despatch to London. Minutes (1), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
Seymour relates the reasons some magistrates’ returns were not sent to the Colonial Office and encloses a letter from O’Reilly that reports the discovery of an apparently rich and extensive Gold field.
No. 129
Victoria
10th December 1868
My Lord Duke,
I have had the honor to receive Your Grace's despatch No. 95 of the 26th October, acknowledging the receipt of some reports from theDistrictManuscript image District Magistrates of this Colony.
2. It was my intention to have forwarded all the monthly reports of the Magistrates but I find—especially at this time of the Year—that the Majority of the Returns are of so uninteresting a character, that I shall only lay before Your Grace those that possess some special interest.TheManuscript image The enclosed letter from Mr O'Reilly, Gold Commissioner of the Kootenay district, reporting the discovery of an apparently rich and extensive Gold field may be worthy of Your Grace's perusal.
I have the honor to be,
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's most obedient
humble Servant.
Frederick Seymour
Minutes by CO staff
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Sir F. Sandford
Put by.
CC 26/1
FRS 26/1
FR 27/1
WM 28/1
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
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Newspaper clipping, Government Gazette, 28 November 1868, containing O'Reilly's report to the Colonial Secretary, 20 October 1868, concerning discovery of gold near Wild Horse Creek.