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QUEENSLAND AND THE REVISED TREATY WITH JAPAN.
The Colony of Queensland has availed itself of its right to establish commercial relations Japan on the basis of the Revised Treaty Great Britain The following is the text the document relating to this subject :—
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Our Tokyo contemporary further learns that Natal and Newfoundland have unconditionally joined in the Anglo-Japanese Treaty«: There remain nine British colonies and foreign possessions which have not yet signified ‘any desire to participate in its provisions.—Kobe Chronicle.
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Brit Majesty, has this day, in due form. THE UNITED STAVËS TARIFF AND wards a violent wind spran acceded to the Treaty of Commerce and Navi- gation between Japan and Great Britain, signed in London on the 16th day of the 7th month of the 27th year of Meiji, in accordance with the provisions of Art. XIX. thereof :—
The undersigned, His Imperial Japan Ma- Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extra- ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, duly uthorized thereto by their respective Govern-
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That the stipulations contained in the first and third Article of the above-named Treaty shall not in any way affect the laws, or- dinances, and regulations with regard to trade, the immigration of labourers and artizans, police and public security which are in force or may hereafter be enacted in Japan or in the said Colony of Queensland.
That the said Treaty shall cease to be binding as between Japan and the said Colony of Queensland, at the expiration of, twelve months after notice shall have been given on either side of a desire to terminate the same.
In witness whereof, the undersigned have signed the present Protocol and affixed thereto their seals.
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Done at Tokyo, this 16th day of the 3rd month of the 30th year of Meiji.
ERNEST SATOW · (seal). OKUMA SHIGENOBU (seal). It will be observed that Japan pledges her.""" subjects, - visiting, or trading with, Queensland under the Revised Treaty, to bide by the laws, ordinances, and regula- tions of the Colony with regard to trade, the immigration of labourers and artizans, and so forth; the Queensland Government accepting a similar obligation vis-à-vis Japan. In fact, this Empire; so far as we understand its policy, does not seek to raise any difficulties about legislation that its Treaty Powers may deem essential in their own interests, provided only that they reciprocally recognise similar legislative independence on its part. Doubtless all the Australian Colonies will join the Treaty circle on the same terms.— Japan Mail.
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An official dispatch received by the Govern ment yesterday gives the rates of import duty on Japanese goods proposed in the Tariff Bill introduced to the United States House of Representatives as follows:-
1-$4 per pound on habutai and other silk goods which weigh under one ounce per yard. 2.-8ir cents. per yards, or 35 per cent. ad valorem, on rugs which cost less than 30 cents per yard.
4-Twelve cents per yard, or 58 to 40 per cent. ad valorem, on rugs which cost more than 30 cents per yard.
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costs less than 10 cents per yard.
5-Eight cents per yard on matting which
6-Eight cents per yard, or 25 per cent. ad valorem, on rugs which cost more than 10 cents. per yard,
The Bill proposes a largely increased duty on silk goods, as compared with the rates now in force, especially on light silk goods and handkerchiefs. The duty on matting shows a large increase. Substantial increases are proposed in the duty on goods imported from Europe, and it is therefore evident that the Bill does not specially discriminate against Japanese goods./Kobe Chronicle.
FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS AND THE
JAPANESE PRESS LAW.
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north west accompanied with he violence of the storm lasted about and a half Many houses were damag some were unroofed. A school in Ti Street was blown to the ground and in Honam were uprooted. All boats took shelter in places of safety.__*
The Prefect of Kwang-chow issued a notice some days ago allowing rice to be exported from Canton to an amount not exceeding 500 (one shik is equal to sixty-four catties) annum. The export was limited to this a by H.E. Chang Chih-tung during his viceroya at Canton, but really the Government takes a notice of how much is exported. ****
A gunboat, together with four steam lar was sent by the Government under mand of a military officer to Sun-tak capture robbers: As they were steaming chow three robbers junks were observed along. The junks were at once fired the gunboat, and one of the junks, seeing time was not favourable for them, quiol away. The other two, which conti fighting till their ammunition was were seized and forty-one robbers They have all been brought to Car Thirty-nine of them have confessed committed robberies of various
On the 30th ultimo all the Wai san houses were destroyed by the people, they failed to refund the money paid- they were not allowed to open on account of being unable to meet the demands of the Go ment. A large crowd broke into the house destroyed everything. It was no wonder the people destroyed the houses under
stances. The kaifong people at gates of the street, being afraid would result in a very serious conditio The people did not disperse
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In concluding an article on the session of the Japanese Diet just closed the Japan Gazette days :-The only other matter of moment was the passing of the Press Law. In many re spects it is a great advancement on its pre. secessor, conferring privileges hitherto denied to journalists, but then, it contains one clause which may give rise to much dispute. It is provided that no foreigner may become the editor, printer, or publisher of a newspaper. Most of
foreign-owned newspapers in Japan are in the hands of Englishmen, consented to abolish the guard near but the days have long since gone by when an English Minister in Japan deemed it a duty to protect his nationals by protest Sir Ernest Batow: was notified of the fact that the bill aimed at the extinction of many businesses furnishing a livelihood to several Englishmen, but he made no sign. Yet this bill is contravention of the spirit if not of the the new: Treaty That Treaty was so ca drafted that no one seems to know what it It provides for the renting of factories
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