order that I might know ito termos & I also enquired whether it had been ratified by the Japanese fort. They replied that it had not get been ratified, as some alterations had been introduced into it; & those alterations they canot at the moment specify, but they believed they related to the rates of postage Wh: were said to be too high.
me
This latter remark showed
that the attention of the Japanese foot had been drawn : to the disapproval generally exporerred by the foreign community in Japan on
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finding that the rates of postage
ramed in the convention with
the US. One
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5.0 per cent in excess
those hitherto levied by the
latter.
Pursuing the conversation I
remarked to M. M.
Ryeno
α
majejina that the present system by wh. the sort of 8t. Butai, Frame & the Us of
America sent then mail in
their own
versels to Japan
x
distributed their there to their
own people by
meano
of their
own agents, but entirely at
their