Mr. Hill to Lord Pauncefote.

No. 1925.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note, No. 270, of the 17th instant, conveying to the Government of the United States an expression of the heartfelt sympathy of the governor and people of the Windward Islands on account of the disaster at Galveston.

I beg that you will assure Sir A. Moloney that his sympathetic mesage is sincerely appreciated by the Government of the United States.

I have, etc.,

David J. Hill.