197
3
directing
to issue
me
an
official
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notification that the French... Government is about to instruct
" its Naval Officers to enforce "belligerent rights, including the
right of search of neutral ships
at sea
の
for contraband of war?
In pursuance of
the
I
instructions thus conveyed,
forthwith issued in the Government Garette the official notification of which a copy is annexed.
With reference to this
3.
Enclosure ! Govt Notification $1.52 of 10 Feb (with 12 spare
notification, I have received the
enclosed
1885.
Thby 1885.
losure 2 enclosed letter from Messrs
Butterfield & Swire, a lea mercantile firm
4.
leading ~
in this
this Colony.
I referred this letter
to the Attorney-General, who has given
the subjoined opinion :- "Neither this Government, nor " the Home Government
a
"
position to give
can be in
authoritative
an au
opinion as to whether coals are
"contraband of war; and I
"cannot advise that any such
application
as that suggested (by
"Mess: Butterfield & Swire) should
be