Copy of Despatch
Administrative Circular
31 August 1871
No. 8642. Downing Street,
25th August 1871
Compliments to
The Earl of Kimberley and to request him to state, for the information of the Colonial Office,
with reference to the letter from the Colonial Office of the 15th ultimo,
that the Queen's Exequatur empowering M. Hippolyte Nicaise to act as Belgian Consul at Hong Kong has this day received Her Majesty's Signature.
The Notification of Her Majesty's Approval of M. Nicaise's Appointment will appear in the "Gazette" of the 1st of September.
Foreign Office,
August 29, 1871