Enclosure 8.
493
Acting Consul General to Acting Colonial Secretary
(Copy)
820533.
Sir,
Hongkong, 5th October, 1885.
I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 30th September and to return the enclosed testimonials, which, although not constituting legal evidence of Marie Louise Gauze's nationality, satisfy me of her being a native of Germany.
I have, &c.
O.F. von Möllendorff
Acting Consul for Germany.
The Honourable
Frederick Stewart, LL.D.
Acting Colonial Secretary,