Mr. White to Mr. Hay.
London, March 12, 1900.
(Mr. White reports that the colonial secretary has been requested to ascertain price which flour shipped on Mashona, Beatrice, and Maria by the Pennsylvania Milling Company would have brought at Lourenço Marquez had it not been for the interruption of the voyages of those vessels. If assurance could be given to Lord Salisbury that the flour is now owned by the Pennsylvania Milling Company, and that Mr. White is willing to receipt for the amount of purchase money when it has been ascertained, the settlement of the case would probably be hastened. Such arrangement would be subject, in case of flour shipped by the Mashona, to an order being made by the prize court releasing the flour.)