Magistrate

assault

over

an

Committed

board the American

shif

་་

R.R. Thomas"

the harbour of the Colony.

2. A copy of

that dispatch with its

enclosures has been laid

before the Marquess of

Salisbury for his consider-

ation,

and a reply

now been

has

recuvid from

the Foreign Office, statin

stating

that in his Lordship's

opinion th. Wodehouse

was

justified in trying

the case

se, if it was brought

before hemi

un the ordinary

ourse

oflaw

governing

opinion

3.

84

The considerations.

his Lordship's

are

as follows

(1) When questions are

raised which mvolve

the jurisdiction of colonial

Courts over

the

only

foreign subjects,

authorities

competent to decide them

are those courts themselves.

If the

Courts

decisions of

art

the

unsatisfactory

to a Foreign Gumment

interestect, and if no

affeal bes from them

the ordinary

in

of law, they

Couvr

can be

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