463
Hong Kong
Government
No.
ov.
Sir,
Downing Street
August 1872.
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No.15, of the 9th May reporting the circumstances under which you had ordered the release of the Messageries Maritimes Steamer "Ava" which had been detained in Port
Sex A. C. Kennedy, KCMG, CB.
under