11899 592
(RECEIVE)
30 NOV 1872
Foreign Office.
November
29.1872
Sir
I am directed by Earl Granville to
request
that
you
will inform the Earl of
Kimberley that his Lordship considered it
advisable to refer to the Law Officers your letter
of the 16th ultimo and its inclosures,
relative to a duel fought in the neighbourhood
of Hongkong between the Spanish Consul at that place and Señor Torre Bueno, the late
Peruvian Consul at Macao, at which M.
Charles de la Forrest, the Acting French Consul, was
[...] Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office.