Mr. Everett to Mr. Hay.

No. 454.]

Sir: Referring to Department dispatch No. 280, of the 6th instant, with inclosures as stated, I have the honor to inform you that upon its receipt I at once telegraphed as follows to the minister for foreign affairs of Honduras:

Confirming my note of 11th instant, I have just received further instructions from my Government ordering me to insist on the prompt payment of $10,000 gold as indemnity in the Pears case. Please inform me by telegraph when I may expect to receive payment of the same.

This morning I received the following reply:

(Translation.) I have had the honor to receive your telegram of the 23d relative to the Pears claim. As I have no knowledge, on account of not having received the note to which your excellency refers, it is not possible for me to give a definite answer; I will do it as soon as I receive your dispatch. Referring to that same affair, I beg to remind your excellency of the conclusions of my note dated September 20 ultimo, in which I proposed a satisfactory arrangement, in virtue of an initiation made to that end by Honorable Hunter, in note of July 24 last.

Remaining your excellency’s obedient servant,

César Bonilla.

My note of the 11th instant which is alluded to in my telegram above inclosed in my dispatch No. 446, of the 12th instant, as is also his note of September 20, to which Mr. Bonilla refers in his reply.

Minister Hunter’s note of July 24 last, referred to above, was inclosed in the latter’s No. 410, of July 27 last.

As soon as I receive Mr. Bonilla’s further reply I shall notify the Department immediately.

I have, etc.,

Sidney B. Everett,
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.