254 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
22 No. 169. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received November 26.) 
DOWNING STREET, November 26, 1888, 
Sir: Iam directed by the Secretary of the State for the Colonies to 
transmit to vou, for the information of the Marquis of Salisbury, with 
reference to previous correspondence, copy of a despatch from the 
Governor-General of Canada, and of a telegram addressed to him 
respecting the case of the “Ada,” one of the vessels seized last year in 
Behring’s Sea. 
Lam, We. 
(Signed) Robert G. W. HERBERT. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 169.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
GOVERNMENT House, Ottawa, October 27, 1888. 
My Lorp: With reference to your Lordship’s telegram of the 20th instant, and to 
mine in reply of to-day’s date, stating that the owners of the “Ada” do not object 
to the original appraisement, I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship a copy 
of an approved Report of a Committee of the Privy Council upon which my tele- 
gram was based. 
Ihave, &c. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
{Inclosure 2 in No. 169.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Eacellency 
the Governor-General in Council on the 27th October, I8SS8. 
The Committee of the Privy Council having referred the telegram of the 20th 
October instant (1888), from Lord Knutsford, in the terms, ‘‘ Referring to your tele- 
gram 6th October, Behring’s Sea, and despatch 8th October; what answer should 
be returned, ‘Ada?’”’ to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, who is advised by a 
despatch from tie Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia that the agent for the 
owners of the schooner *‘Ada” does not object to the original appraisment, respect- 
fully recommend that your Excellency be moved to telegraph Lord Knutsford in the 
above scuse in answer to his telegram of the 20th October instant. 
(Signed) JOHN J. MCGEE, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
{Inclosure 3 in No. 169.—Telegraphie. ] 
Lord Knutsford to Lord Stanley of Preston. 
DOWNING STREET, November 6, 1888. 
With reference to your telegram of 27th October, United States’ Government will 
be informed that owners of ‘‘Ada” do not object to original appraisement. I pre- 
sume it will be for owners to take any further action. 
