suggested that if the Consul could induce the Captain to prevent the going in the ship he might be watched until an information could be laid with view to arrest.
3.
Action in accord with this advice having been taken, the Captain Superintendent of Police arrested the man on the 18th December.
4. On the 27th December the Captain Superintendent of Police reported that information had been received that Lehan Sze, the party arrested, had been the leader of a daring burglarious attack on a house at Masao, from which 10 women had been carried off. He suggested that as several men had been arrested by the Chinese officials for this offence, a copy of the information should be sent to Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton for their information; thus enabling them, if they deemed fit, to apply for rendition and thus obviate any difficulty as to a surrender to the Macao Authorities.
5.
A letter was written accordingly on the 28th December to Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, and the reply received from him on the 11th January 1877 was to the effect that he was requested by the Chinese Authorities to make application for the rendition of the