CO129-169 - Others - 1874 — Page 37

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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

сер

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

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