Mr. Hay to Mr. Thomas.

No. 77.]

Sir: I inclose for your information copy of a note1 from the British ambassador at this capital, communicating the substance of dispatches received by the British Government from Her Majesty’s minister at Stockholm, relative to the proposed request for arbitration of the Samoan claims by His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.
  1. Not printed.