Lith June.
We do not known whether it is in the power of the British Minister, Sir Claude Macdonald, to order an enquiry to. into the circumstances of the case of Mr. Laisun which are clearly and temperately set forth in the extract from Sport and Gossip in another column, but if it is in his power, we imagine he will do'so. It is universally known here that Mr. Laisun's family have been British subjects for two or three generations. It can be well uiaderstood that it is. most disagreeable to us to have to draw attention from time to time to mistakes made at the British Consulate-General here, but it was impossible to keep silence about the present case, which is only paralleled by the action of the Yokohama Consulate in the matter of Miss Jacob, in which, as far as we know, nothing whatever has yet been done.
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