Sir,
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Admiralty Registry
Doctors Commons
31. July 1874-
I have to acknowledge
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the
receipt of your instant, forwarding Colonial letter of the 4th instant with its enclosures in original relative to the detention of the Steam Ship Ara belonging to the French Messageries Maritimes by Warrant issued from the Vice Admiralty Court of Hong-Kong.
And you inform me that their Lordships will be glad to be furnished with the case.
The circumstances would seem to have been as follows.
On the 14th of April last a Collision occurred between the Ara and a British Steamer called the Rona near the Island of Ockten in ...
The Secretary of the Admiralty
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