topy.
Commercial
No.3.
C.
13473
RECE
Rest 3 AUG 96!
BRITISH CONSULATE,
SAIGON, 30th June, 1895.
393
My Lord:~
I have the honour to advise that a qua-
rantine of ten days (including paseage) was in-
posed on the 17th instant upon all vessels arriving
from Hong Kong with cargo or passengers, the result
of a telegram received from the French Consul at
that port to the effect that the Plague of last
year had again broken out.
The British Steamship "Bentala" left
Hong Kong on the 15th instant with a clean Bill of
Health, endorsed by the said French Consul,
but
she was placed in quarantine nevertheless.
I have remonstrated against the detention
of the steamer, and, at the request of the Colonial
Secretary, Hong Kong, against the quarantine itself.
I presume it is a peculiarity of Saigon
er Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State
Foreign Office.
quarantine