His Excellency replied that he regretted it was
to
impossible for hem
interfere in any way.
The next day
the
12
12th May 1876-
Private Secretary to the Administrator wailed upon Sir John Smale at his private residence according to instructions given him, and informed him of the interview referred to above, eating that the object of the Consuls had been to-
oblaise the friendly, interponition of t . E . The Administrator, but that His Excellency had declined to interfere
in the matter, that the
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motives influencing the Consuls in
favor
were
solicitly this
: purely amicable
and directed to the prevention.
of diplomatic action, and that it was with this came
object in view that the Private Secretary
to the
Administrator had been instructed to
• informe.
the
Chief Justice of what had tation place
The Chief Justice replied
a great
that there was a
at blake
principle of Justizi and that the only explanation