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No. 811.
(NATAL.)
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Reference :-
ITTIC.O. 885
11 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
MY LORD,
QUEEN'S ADVOCATE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
I AM honoured with your Lordship's commands, signified
Temple, April 14, 1873. letter of the 29th ultimo, stating that with reference to Mr. Hammond's letter of the Viscount Enfield's 27th ultimo, he was directed by your Lordship to transmit to me therewith a further letter from the Colonial Office on the subject of the Delagoa Bay Question, and at the same time to call my attention to Lord Kimberley's request, that if there were in Sir H. Barkly's memorandum, any statements which required to be corrected due notice thereof might be given to the Colonial Office in order that the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope might be furnished with suitable instructions. Viscount Enfield further stated that your Lordship would also be glad to receive any observations I might wish to make on the suggestion of an alternative award in favour of the native proprietors of the territories in dispute.
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In obedience to your Lordship's commands I have the honour to
Report
That there is nothing in the memorandum of Sir H. Barkly which requires to be
corrected.
But I submit to the consideration of your Lordship and the Earl of Kimberley whether Sir H. Barkly and all other persons in a like official employment should not be instructed to refer all communications by whomsoever made for information respecting the territory in dispute to their Department of Her Majesty's Government.
The question is now to be submitted to the President of the French Republic by the British and Portuguese Governments. And great inconvenience and possible failure
of justice may follow if information is sought for and obtained officially otherwise than through Her Majesty's Government at home.
I am unwilling to make any observation on the suggestion of an alternative award in favour of the native proprietors of the territories in dispute.
It is impossible to read the papers which have been sent to me without seeing the great probability there is that neither the British nor Portuguese may be found entitled to those territories, and at same time, but perhaps not till the Portuguese case has been seen, it may become necessary to place that alternative in a distinct shape
and for a direct decision before the arbitrator.
I shall be obliged to your Lordship if you will direct Sir H. Barkly's memorandum and the extracts from the Cape "Monitor to be returned to me.
The Earl Granville,
&c. &c. &c.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
J. PARKER DEANE.
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