Any clause which permits of the extension

of the Convention to other rules than those enumerated.

On the arrival

Q. I may mention incidentally that under Article II of the same Convention the privileged Packets shall submit to the sanitary police, and Customs regulations concerning arrival and departure of Passengers.

10. "The action of the officers of the M.M. CE appears to be somewhat inconsistent. They invoke the assistance of the Hong Kong Police at once when they are complainants in any Criminal matter - but steadily oppose any action when they

are Defendants.

11. At the present time a Chinaman,

lately a servant on board the M.M. S.S. "Sindh" is in Custody in this Colony

on a charge of larceny on board that vessel. If the French Consul's claim is correct the Courts of this Colony

can have no Jurisdiction

in this case; and should His

Excellency desire it the question

of Jurisdiction could be raised on this charge, and the decision of the Supreme Court of the

Colony taken on the question of Jurisdiction.

12. Since the receipt of the Consul's letter referred to above in paragraph I, the Hon'ble the Colonial Secretary has kindly forwarded for my information certain correspondence with the Right Hon'ble the Secretary of State on the

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