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an acknowledgment couched in the usual terms.
There the matter rests at present, and I now yen-
ture to suggest to Your Excellency that the matter should
be re-considered without reference to Ht Laboura iņ's letter
above referred to, as I feel some confidence that when Your
Excellency has examined the facts of the case, you will, in
your enlightened judgment, be disposed to make some offer
of settlement which will, it may be hopod, obviate all ne-
cessity for referring it to arbitration,
I feel bound to add, however, that I have recei-
vad no intimation from my Government authorizing me to
withdraw or even to postpone their proposal, and that I may,
at any moment, receive renewed instructions to urge its
accoptance.
I avall myself, etc.
(signed)
Francis Stronga,