Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Gresham.
Sir: With reference to your note of June 16 last, I am requested by the Earl of Kimberley to inform you that Her Majesty’s consul at Apia will be instructed to confer with his American and German colleagues respecting the joint payment to Mr. H. C. Ide, the chief justice of Samoa, of an additional sum of $1,000 toward the expenses of his removal from the United States on taking up his post.
In accordance with your suggestion, Mr. C. Smith will be further instructed to draw upon Her Majesty’s Government for one-third of the amount in question, i. e., $333.34, or its equivalant, and to pay the money over direct to Mr. Ide, from whom he will obtain the necessary receipt.
I have, etc.,