Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Gresham.

Sir: In accordance with instructions which I have received from the Earl of Rosebery I have the honor to inclose copy of a dispatch, together with its inclosures, which his lordship has addressed to Her Majesty’s chargé d’affaires at Berlin, respecting the deportation of Mataafa and other chiefs from Samoa.

I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.