In a contract concerning the fund raising, the engineer employment, etc. concluded for constructing railways between the Japanese government and Nelson LAY, the former Inspector General in the Qing dynasty (a friend of Harry PARKES, the British Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan), Lay's fraud was exposed, and therefore, Hirobumi ITO, Okura no shofu (Junior Assistant Minister of the Ministry of the Treasury) ordered Kagenori to go off to Britain to cancel the contract.
鉄道敷設のために日本政府がネルソン・レー・前清総税務司（駐日英公使ハリー・パークスの友人）との間に結んだ資金借入・技術者雇用等に関する契約において、レーによる不正行為が発覚した件で、大蔵少輔・伊藤博文の命を受け英国に赴き、契約を破棄する。