and paid as aforesaid, then the Defendant shall pay to the Plaintiff the amount claimed in the writs of Summons issued herein together with interest at the rate of 12 per cent per annum commencing from the 13th October 1873 until payment and all the costs incurred by the Plaintiff, and that all expenses incurred by the Plaintiff or his agent proceeding to and returning from Huey to ascertain the amount due shall be borne by the Defendant.
Some time after the attachment of the Dangure (the exact date does not appear) Inn fai Kwan the third in command, after surrendering the conduct of the case into the hands of another Solicitor returned to Annam to report matters to his Government, and on the 12th of March 1874 there arrived in Hongkong a mandarin named Kai Tin, the superior of the two mandarins who waited upon the Acting Colonial Secretary. This Officer was a minister and Vice President of the Board of Finance of the Kingdom of Annam, and was sent by the Government of Annam as representative of the King and especially to attend to the affairs of the Dangwee to which he was appointed Commander. He was the bearer of letters to the above effect addressed to the Governor and to the Chief Justice.
His Honour directed copies of his letter to be sent to both Solicitors: a copy is enclosed herein, from which it will be seen that Landstein's debtors are said to be certain Annamese who had traded on their own account, and that the Annamese Government to assist Landstein had taken possession of the property of Untaxhaw one of the debtors, and had punished him by imprisonment. Untaxhaw is the man Panku mentioned above.