HISTORIC CHEQUE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 34, 30 January 1908, Page 4

HISTORIC CHEQUE.

m SSIA PAYS .JAPAN .1:8,800,4-10.

i he Ambassador visited the •bipanese J',])])jii>-y at 4, (.il'UtsVcnur Hardens, London, on .November 23, and formally handed tu Hit: Japanese Ambassador a diall lor £ - 4 3 8<jU,440 lUa lid, the balance ot the sum line to Japan lor tin; ni">ney> expended by her on the main-U-naiice ol tli'j Kttssian prisoners*, as agreed under Ihi* term-; ol' the Portsiiiuuth treat v.

The uriyin.il Mini due Lo Japan was >liglitly larger, but ihere was a small pel" eonlra aceoimt entailed by tlio lnainle.iance ui th«- lew ■Japanese prisoners on )iu>siau *ojl.

I lie " ue.fipraelieally eoneluded Russia - linaneial indebtedness to Japan as a iv-ult oi the war.

i Ibe world* largest cheque was )'or .Ui ).<Mis,Nj.j. paid over the 13alik of England counter to the .Japanese Minister as lie 1 iirst in-ialuicm ui the Chinese indemnity lV»r llie war ol IS'Jo. The sotwid nt was a ehetpie i'or \> JOd.

\\heii JJe I Jeers bought the Kiinberhiy Central Company they paid over a cheque lor Mr. Piorpout -Morgan, in eonneetion with tho disposal <n Mr. Carnegie's steel holdings, drew a ehe.jue lor £-1,781,75-1 Bd, and lately, when money was over 100 per cent, premium, lit* sent down to Wall Street about „CO,UOO,UIJU in one batch ol' oeI'linties.

I lie MUalb'nl cheque ).-> probably th.it l*>r "i\w eent ('/»d) drawji by the Amurieau Ireasury tor Mr. Cleveland, in whose Presidential salary an error had been made.