Berial
Beria! No.
Colony,
Date.
Registry No.
Subject.
No.
Colony.
Date.
Registry No.
709
Cape.
May 8, 1871
4568
Course to be pursued in annexing the territory of Chief Waterboer to the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. (See Nos. 220, 426, 484, and 706.)
722
Gold Coast -
August 15, 1871
8201
710
Dominica
May 11, 1871
5800
Alleged murder by the master and certain of the crew of the American vessel "Montesuma," of Antoine Anthony, ▲ British subject at Portsmouth, Domi- nica.
728
Canada
August 16, 1871
8248
711
New South Wales
May 18, 1871
5459
Proposed Order in Council for the regu- lation of consular jurisdiction in the Fiji Islands.
724
Hong Kong -
August 17, 1871
8217
725
Gibraltar
August 28, 1871
9709
712
Jamaica
713
Virgin Lalande
May 24, 1871
May 25, 1871
12,523
6123
Effect of Naturalisation Act, 1870, on an English woman married to an alien. Case of the "Telegrafo." Action brought by MacCleverty (the reputed owner) against the
the Government for
726
Hong Kong -
September 2, 1871
9529
detention of the vessel, for which he claims damages. (See Nos. 596, 601, and 647.)
727
Ceylon
September 14, 1871
9191
714
Jamaica
May 31, 1871
6865
*716
Newfoundland
June 8, 1871
5665
716
Hong Kong
-
June 15, 1871
5981
717
Trinidad
June 28, 1871
6524
Draft charter to incorporate certain persons who had been appointed to represent the Church Commission under section 5 of the Colonial Act, No. 80 of 1870,
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to regulate the gradual disendowment of the Church of England in Jamaica, Whether "seals" are “fish,” and persons conducting seal fishery "fishermen, within the meaning of the Treaty of 1818, and whether certain proceedings of United States fishermen in the ports and harbours of Newfoundland are an infringement of the Treaty of 1818 or of the Imperial Act, 59 Geo. 3. o. 88.
Case of a Chinese prisoner who was claimed by the French Government under the Extradition Treaty on the charge of murder. (See Nos. 690 and 704.)
Blockade, by the Venezuelan Government, of part of the Venezuelan coast which remains in the hands of the party op- posed to the Government, and the Reizure of the British vessels "Unison," "Helen," and "Sophie.”
Draft Ordinance for the suppression of gambling in the Island of Heligoland.
Right of the Colonial Secretary and Provost Marshal of Grenada to receive certain fees for work done by those officers respectively in the Appeal and Encumbered Estates Court.
718
Heligoland
June 80, 1871
6668
719
Grenada
July 5, 1871
6666
728
New South Wales
729
Canada
General
September 19, 1871
September 28, 1871
928+1
9494
11,043
Subject.
Bombardment of the house and factory of an ex-slave dealer, named Geraldo, at Vojee, on the West Coast of Africa, and the claim of Geraldo to compensation.
Power of the Executive Government of New Brunswick to dismiss from office the clerk of the Legislative Council without the concurrence of that body, (See No. 682.)
Case of Kwok-a-Sing. (See Nos. 690,
714, 716, and 721.)
Jurisdiction by the Supreme Court of Gibraltar over British Consular Officers in Morocco,
Proceedings of the French authorities at Saigon in deporting a number of Chiness subjects to Hong Kong, and the course pursued by the Colonial authorities at Hong Kong in the matter.
Petition from Mr. G. W. Paterson, judge of the district court of Kalutara, in Ceylon, praying that an order of the Supreme Court by which he was fined 301, for a contempt of court might be rescinded, and that the fine might be remitted.
Seizure of the "Daphne" for a breach of
the slave trade laws,
Sufficiency of the publication in a Colonial official gazette of the Foreign Enlist- ment Act of 1870 as being a proclams- tion within the meaning of the 3rd section thereof.
Wreck of the bulk "Ellora" sunk at her moorings through the negligence of the British steamer " R. Cobden." Whether proceedings should be taken against the owner of the hulk or the owner of the "R. Cobden" to enforce the removal of the wreck.
Act passed for the annexation of the
Basuto territory. (See No. 709.)
Whether Chen-sing, a Chinaman, sentenced to nine months'imprisonment for forcibly detaining within the Colony three Chi- nese women with intent to sell them, can, on the expiration of his sentence, be properly surrendered to the Chinese Government, who claim his extradition ou the ground that the abduction of those girls took place in Chinese terri- tory.
Sale of the British steamer, "J. Cum-
ming" to the Venezuelan Government. Act for the annexation of Batoland to the Cape of Good Hope. (See Nos. 709 and 731.)
Action of Her Majesty's Consul at Fiji in detaining the British vessel "Chal- lenge" for a breach of the laws relating to the slave trade, and the subsequent release of the vessel owing to the refu- sal of the Governor of New South Wales to prosecute.
780
Gibraltar
September 28, 1871
£492
1
781
Cape
October 20, 1871
10,328
732
Hong Kong -
October 26, 1871
10,503
720
Tasmania
July 28, 1871
7414
Necessity of reserving certain Bills passed by the legislative bodies of the Colony, and the method of removing this restric- tion.
783
Trinidad
October 27, 1871
10,721
784
Cape
October 28, 1871
10,691
721
Hong Kong .
July 29, 1871
7516
Case of Kwok-a-Sing, ▲ Chinese coolie, who was charged with murder and piracy on board the "Nouvelle Pene- lope," and whose extradition was claimed by both the Chinese and French Go- vernments. (See Nos. 690, 704, and 716.)
735
New South Wales
October 31, 1871
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Date.
Registry
No.
786
Cape
November 7, 1871
11,026
787
General
November 28, 1871
11,698
738
Malta
November 30, 1871
11,759
789
789A
Antigua
General
Subject.
Questions raised with respect to the proper course to be followed in the event of it being decided to divide the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope into provinces, or to effect a federation of it with any of the neighbouring Republics and native tribes, or the Colony of Natal.
Proposed change in the mode of confirm- ing laws passed in Colonies having Re- presentative Assemblies with a suspend- ing clause.
Introduction by the Governor of Malta of a local enactment extending to that Colony the provisions of the 24th sec- tion of the Extradition Act of 1870. Proposal to invest colonial bishong with December 101180/96. Question whether there is reasonable ground pinting
December 5, 1871
11,962
Bahamas.
for the issue of a warrant under § 24 of 38 & 84 Vict. c. 90, in the case of two vessels suspected of being destined for the Cuban insurgents.