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The eager search for asappropriated islets in his prior right to Mareas Island, and the the Torres Straits at Et per heads with half or MAY NOW BE SEEN IN QUE the waters of the Pacifo, a quest that of lates years has been revised by adventurons persone question, it is supposed, will presantly become of all nationalities, las absorbed no smelt share one for adjustment through the usual diplomatic of attention in Japasens homes, where the datalianels. Meanwhile Midsu-tani and his morry of late become ardent and apreciative travellers, journal are rend with avidity. Our active mea are in possession of Southern Bird Island. going very far afield in their search for profit-
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uble aphores of labour. They have caught much of the spirib which suimated our voyagers of old and led them towards the Coral Seas in pursuit of wealth and novel undertakings.-Morning
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were evidences aanmerable of bird life-a aruption in August lies much nearer to Japan the Mambers of the above Club will be!
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allies have from time to time aited ont private its fertiliser, and its feathara. expeditions to explore the Southern Seas on their
A close similarity in name has led to the in- own account, and s certain Midzi-tani hin- reka, in 1806, sailed his three-masted schooner pression that it was Midsu-tani's sottioment to Guan, Saiban, and a number of other islunds which was overwhelmed in the catastrophe of situated towards the Equator, fa quest of profit. August last, when Tori-shima-ie., Bird Leland able trade. A furiors gale that he encountered in the same scattered chain of islete stretching just within the Tropics drove him to the shelter actor the Pacific from Honolulu to Japan, of Minami Tori-shimie, Southern Bird untered from a destructive outburst of its Island, known to Western chartographers as volcano in preefsoly the way that St. Pierre Marcus Island. He found it to be destitute of was obliterated by Mout Felds in May. But even a trace of human babitation, but there the Bird Island which was the scene of the then Southern Bird Island, being, indeed, mid- way between Yokohama and the Bonin Group in longitude 140 deg. E. and latitude 30 deg. 45 mín. N. It seems likewise to have derived Business-To pass the Programme of the its title of Tori-shinis from the presence of Race Meeting to be held in February next.
By Order, those countless Books of sen birds that frequent
J. GEANT.
Eoorptary. its rooks and crannies, and the now: vanished
Hongkong, 21st November, 1902. [3099 village at its base was inhabited by a hundred and ifty Japanese settlers ovenpied in mach the JUST PUBLISHED: (RRVISED
EDITION. same way as their compatriola on Minami Tori- ļ shima, seven bundred and fifty miles to the south-imp eastward of them. It has only been of Into THE yours that the agricultural population of Japan has pa d any attention to fertilisers of this class, i but an appreciable trade has already sprung up. and the search for gaann deposits is continuous The outlying rooks off the coast,, and every
might have been expected, indeed, in an island no named-and on elt, sides. The crevices of the rocks were filled to overflowing with feathers, and Books of sea-forl darkened the sky. After ⚫ brief stay at Miami Tori-shima, Midzu-tani, a sailor from his childhood, returued to Tokyo in his schoones, and reported his find to the Government. Two months later, in January, 1827, he was granted a lease of the island, which meanwhile had been annored by: Japan, dau oficial notification of this fset having been given to the United States at the same tins without any objection being offered in that or any other quarter.
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Midza-tani, is puranaree of the authority given to him to exploit the island, returned im- mediately thereto, and took with him, some thirty-fro persons-men, women, and children who desired to become settlers, and to work for bin under continet. The vessel was laden with all sorts of material for hut-building, with provisions for the little colours and with appliances for working to advantage the guano deposits, and rendering marketable the accum- ulated stocks of feathers. The settlers are said to have largely subsisted on the flesh of the sea birds that frequented this isolated rock iu mid ocean, and to have found it by no means bad eating, Midzu-tani's settlement was so far out of the beaten track of steamers that the only foreign skips known to have touched there up to flo and of last year were an United States max-of war, in 1895, in search of provisions and freali water, and an American merchantman which came in 1901. The colonists were certain:
ly not troubled by visitors from the outer world, and great was their surprise, we are told, when the Japanese craier Kosagi suddenly arrived and dropped anchot off the village.
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scattered in the thousand miles expanse of se which lies between may not fall to its share out to do, s vary readabis and securite sketch through the exploring energy of such men me of the colour as it is at jresent... Alingsther, Mitzu-tani. That the islands, when found, will this is a book to read." BANGLOR TIMES." be largely colonised, however, is doubtful, baving THE BOOK WILL BE FOUND TO BE A COMPLETE regard to the fato that has overtaken one no
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INDUSTRY OF THE JAPANESE GUY Wake Islead, which confronts Southern Bird stad at a distance of some five hundred miles, is the limit, in a north-west direction, of the jurisdiction of the Unit 4 States in this part of the Facise. When Japan's cisim to Marcue Island was practically admitted in July Inst. mention was expressly made of America's claim to Wake Island, and the Tokyo Government! promptly acknowledged its justice. Minami Tori-shion, on the one hand, and Wake Island on the other, are the ou posta, therefore, of Japan and the Uui ed States of America. But the ownership of other isles of the Pacific by diferent Powera is no bar to the prosecution of
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Miasmi Tori-china, or Marcas Island, is situated in Latitude 24 dag. N. and longitude 154 deg. E. approximately, and is five hundred miles east-south-east of the Bonia Group, which likewise belongs to Japan. The Bonine are themselves fire hundred and fifty miles Japanese commercial enterprise in equatorial E, the BAN AN STEAMSHIP from the mainland of Niphou, ea that Midzu- von southern seas, for Germany has lately, tani and his life hand of feather-gatherers and guano-pucken were distant fully one thousand miles from their original Lemes when dwelling on then weather-bestens inlet in the Fast Pacific. They
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