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Foreign Office.
July
5. 1872.
I have laid before Earl Granville your letter of the 3rd Instant forwarding Correspondence respecting the detention of the French Steamer "Ava " at Hong Kong,
And I am directed by His Lordship to state to you, for the information of the Earl of Kimberley, that he Concurs in the approval which His Lordship proposes to express to Sir A. Kennedy under Secretary of State to Colonial Office.