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arrest in May last at Hong Kong of the French Messageries Maritimes Steam ship
Ava under warrant
of the local Vice Admiralty Court.
2. The Report
enters fully into
the facts of the case,
but it appears unnecessary to trouble
you with copies of
the documents transmitted from Hong
Kong; and
the principal question
upon which Lord
Kimberley desires your
opinion is one depending upon
the construction of
the Postal Convention
with France of the 3rd September 1866,
which is to be found
in the tenth volume
of Hertslet's Treaties p.108, and of which
copies are annexed
for reference.
3. As bearing
upon this question, I am to state that
in 1869 the Queen's
Advocate