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therefore think that, in order that the Commercial interests of this Country in those Islands may be placed on a more satisfactory footing, it would be well to avail ourselves of the wish of the Hawaiian Government as expressed in Mr Wodehouse's despatch renewing our Treaty for a further period to be mutually agreed upon.
I have to
(54) Louis Mallet
(Pd)
Sir,
Foreign Office
2 January 1868
I have laid before Lord Stanley your letter of the 19th ultimis, upon the subject of the Reciprocity Treaty, recently concluded between the United States and the Sandwich Islands, and suggesting that the offer of the latter Government to conclude a similar treaty with this country, should be met by a proposal to renew the existing Treaty between the two Countries, for a term of years to be mutually agreed upon.
Board of Trade