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Government to pay for expenses incurred in

the detention of witnesses to murder, on the

Wright

in CE

Eleven sent for

trial in the Supreme Court of

the

Colony by Her Majesty's Acting

Consul at Managawa.

I also enclose the copy of a

letter addressed by Sir J. Hornby,

The Chief Judge of The Supreme Consular

Court

for China and Japan to Her Majesty's Minister in Japan, by which Your Lordship will perceive that in the opinion of the former this Colony

30 Sept. 1889

is entitled to claim reimbursement

of the expenses incurred rather from The Home Government than from the Legation in Japan

as

proposed by M. Austin in his capacity

of Acting

Consular Auditor.

Under the circumstances I

trust that Your Lordship will take

the necessary steps to cause

payment

in reimbursement of the advance

made

by

the

Colony.

to be paid to the Crown

Agent's by the Department properly

chargeable.

I have the honor to be,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's most obedient

humble servant,

William Des Vœux

Governor