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My Lord:-

C. 0.

26624

RECO

Reef 16 AUG 00

LI MA,

687

16th June, 1900.

During a visit which I paid yesterday at

the Peruvian Ministry for Foreign Affairs,

I was

handed the memorandum of which I have the honour to

inclose copy and translation, with the request that

I would beg Your Lordship to be so good as to lend

your high influence in urging the Government of

Hong Kong to assist the Peruvian Government in the

settlement of a difficulty which has arisen on

account of the conduct of the ex Peruvian Consul

at Hong Kong Mr. J. Grant Smith, a British subject.

The Peruvian Government has considerable

interests involved in the administration of their

Consulate at Hong Kong, in connection with Chinese

emigration to Peru and the fees and revenue accruing

there from and they are anxious to recover the Con-

sular

Marquess of Salisbury, K. G.,

&C.,

&C.,