duty on refined Sugar offered less probabilities of the Japanese Govern.
the action here evggest.
Refined
was bust
ment taking ed. For the duty on 24 cents per pients, aganist the anti- cipated 90 cents, while Raves paid 13 cents per picul. And if the
if the Japanese Government had wished to bounty
| their home industry, it would have
been at a much
an
than will be
} \new Freaky
z vece
fer cost to them
greater
cessary under the
Whatever vices
may
be taken.
of the position it is quite plain that St.B. M. Government have can. ceded to Japan a preferential boy upon imported refined sugars of
£1.12.9 per son, which mud prove a most serious blow to the industries of this Colony.
say
I am directed to request that
copy of this letter v
may
be sent
to Sher Majesty's Secretary of State
for
<
for
the Colonies.
I have &c. St. Fr. Henderson,
ton : J. St. Stewart Lockhart,
Colonial Secretary.
Secretary..
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