450 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salishury.—(Received by telegraph, 
February 23.) 
WASHINGTON, February 22, 1890. 
My Lorp: With reference to your Lordship’s telegram of to-day, I 
have the honour to report that I have telegraphed to Lord Stanley to 
inquire when I may expect the arrival in Washington of the Canadian 
Agent who is to assist me in the coming negotiations. 
Mr. Blaine, M. de Struve, the Russian Minister, and I, held a pre- 
liminary and informal meeting this morning, at which the question of 
the area of the possible arrangement was discussed. 
Mr. Blaine and M. de Struve then proposed the following area: 
“ From a point on the 50th parallel north latitude due south from the 
southernmost point of the Peninsula of Kamtchatka; thence due east 
on the said 50th parallel to the point of the intersection with the 160th 
meridian of longitude west from Greenwich; thence north and east by 
a Straight line to the point of intersection of the 60th parallel of north 
latitude with the 140th meridian of longitude west from Greenwich.” 
The 50th parallel, as your Lordship is aware, was the southernmost 
limit proposed by Mr. Bayard, and it need only be extended on the 
west to the Kamtchatka Peninsula, as M. de Struve states that there 
is no Seal fishery in the Sea of Ochotsk. 
I objected, however, to the limit on the east being extended beyond 
the 160th meridian of longitude, which was the limit proposed by Mr. 
Bayard, and is quite sufficient for the necessities of the case. 
I should be much obliged if your Lordship would inform me whether 
you approve of the area now suggested by Mr. Blaine and M. de 
Struve, provided it be limited on the east by the 160th meridian. 
I have, &c. . 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, 
No. 297. 
Foreign Office to Colonial Office. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, February 24, 1890, 
Str: With reference to the letter from this Office of the 22nd instant, 
I am directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to transmit to you the accom- 
panying copy of a telegram from Her Majesty’s Minister at Washing- 
ton,* giving the result of an informal conversation with the Secretary 
of State and the Russian Minister on the subject of an area within 
which the proposed arrangement relating to the Behring’s Sea seal 
fisheries might be applied. 
I am to request that, in laying this telegram before the Secretary of 
State for the Colonies, you will move his Lordship to favour Lord Salis- 
bury, at his earliest convenience, with his opinion as to the answer 
which should be returned to it. 
Tam, &e. 
(Signed) T. H. SANDERSON. 
*No. 296. _ 
