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309 No. 221. 
Foreign Office to Colonial Office. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, September 9, 1889. 
Sir: With reference to your letter of the 3rd instant, I am directed 
by the Marquis of Salisbury to request that you will move the Secre- 
tary of State for the Colonies to cause a telegram to be sent to the Gov- 
ernor-General of Canada, requesting his Excellency to furnish Her 
Majesty’s Government with immediate information if any further stop- 
page of vessels in Behring’s Sea takes place. 
lam, &e. 
(Signed) T. H. SANDERSON. 
No. 222. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received September 10.) 
DOWNING STREET, September 10, 1889. 
Sir: With reference to previous correspondence respecting the sei- 
zure of Canadian sealers in Behring’s Sea, I am directed by Lord Knuts- 
ford to transmit to you, for communication to the Marquis of Salisbury, 
a copy of a despatch from the Governor-General of the Dominion, with 
its inclosures, on the subject. 
Lam, &e. 
(Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 222.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
CITADEL, QUEBEC, August 26, 1889. 
My Lorp: With reference to previous correspondence respecting the seizure of 
the ‘ Black Diamond” and the detention of the ‘‘Triumph” in Bebring’s Sea, I have 
the honour to forward herewith a copy of an approved Minute of the Privy Council, 
submitting copies of the instructions given to the special officer placed on board the 
“Black Diamond” by the Captain of the United States Revenue-cutter ‘‘ Rush,” and 
of a letter from the Collector of Customs at Victoria, together with the affidavits of 
the masters of the two vessels. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
{Inclosure 2 in No. 222.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Excellency 
the Governor-General in Council, on the 22nd August, 1889. 
On a Report dated the 13th August, 1889, from the Minister of Marine and lisheries, 
submitting, in reference to the seizure in the Behring’s Sea of the schooner *‘ Black 
Diamond” and the boarding of the schooner ‘‘Triumyph,” the original instructions 
given to the special ofticer placed by the Captain of the United States Revenue-cut- 
ter ‘‘ Rush” on board the “‘ Black Diamond” at the time of the latter’s seizure, and 
also aletter from the Honourable W. Hamley, Collector of Customs at Victoria, British 
Columbia, together with the following affidavits: 
