Mr. Gresham to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your note of the 24th instant, transmitting a copy of a dispatch, together with its accompaniments, which the Earl of Rosebery has addressed to Her Majesty’s chargé d’affaires at Berlin respecting the deportation of Mataafa and other chiefs from Samoa.

I have, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.