Mr. Foster to Sir Julian Pauncefote.
Washington, January 14, 1893.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 11th instant, in which you state that Her Majesty’s consul at Apia has reported that Baron Senfft von Pilsach declines to furnish the consuls of the treaty powers with copies of his quarterly financial reports unless he receives a joint instruction from the powers to do so. You add that the Earl of Rosebery has instructed you to propose to this Government that joint action should be taken with that object.
This Government has not yet received a report from its consul with reference to this matter, but it heartily concurs in the proposal of Her Majesty’s Government, and I will at once instruct the American consul at Apia accordingly.
I have, etc.,