COSTA RICA PACKET CASE.
Press Association.— Telegraph.—Copyright. Sydney, April 5. Advices have been received that the Netherlands Government positively refuse to compensate the owners and crew of the Sydney vessel Costa Rica Packet, seized in Java waters. The Premier has instructed the Agent-General to present petitions to the Imperial Parliament on the matter, and Sir Charles Dilke has undertaken to present them in the House of Commons, and Lord Jersey in the House of Lords. London, April 5. In the House of Lords Earl Kimberley, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, referred to the decision of the Dutch authorities in the Costa Rica Packet Case, and gave their detailed reasons for the attitude they had adopted. He said the British Crown law officers had declined to treat the decision as final.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9478, 6 April 1894, Page 5
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