demand en
it for markdown. Ment and other Expences. You will therefore understand that the matter is much more complicated than would
appear to be the case from your.
appear to be the case
His Excellence can pass any
letter, and before.
order on the subject he
directs me to request that you will furnish a minute and detailed statement of your dealings and transactions with Mr Campbell who purchased the Rice st. --- Wally and who has subsequently asserted that his instruction to the Firm of Messrs Holliday Wise and Co to deliver the Bill of Lading to you Messrs Jansen & Co (who are represented by Mr Smith) had a prior claim on the rice in consideration of their having disbursed the
$1000 paid
as an
sum
was a
mistake a
of $1802, that is advance to Messrs Holliday Wise.
Ho on chartering the Ship Asia, and $800 due to themselves in account of a previous balance.
Three
may
In opposition to your request that the
be sent to Macao until the question that has arisen shall be legally decided, Mr Smith
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prays in his Memorial that it may be delivered to him or his Agents at Hongkong, whilst Messrs Holliday Wise & Co naturally require that their lien on its proceeds shall be discharged before they deliver up the Rice and that they shall receive a guarantee holding them harmless against any proceedings that
be instituted by you or your
you or your representatives or by
may
any
other person.
Under the circumstances above explained,
His Excellency is induced to most strongly
recommend that the whole matter shall be submitted to arbitration and if you and Mr Smith will consent to this most desirable mode of
arrangement, His Excellency will refer settlement to Mr BB
theThe Legal Adviser
urges on Government. In the meantime the Rice might be sold to save
the Expences attending it at present,
and to prevent its further deterioration, and an order to that effect will be addressed to Messrs
Wise & Co, providing for their paying Holliday
the
prays