JAPANESE EMIGRATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9031, 18 January 1908, Page 5

JAPANESE EMIGRATION.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association-By Electric Telegraph copyright.

CANADA SATISFIED. Received January 17, '8.35 a.m. (1 LONDON, January ; 16. Reuter's Tokio correspondent reports that the Government has 'received notification to the effect that Mr Lemieux's report is entirely satisfactory, and that Sir W. Laurier (Canadian Prime Minister) is ready to accept Japan's verbal promise to restrict emigration to Canada to labourers, he relying upon the promisa of the Japanese Government to enforce the necessary regulations.

' (Mr Lemieux, the Canadian Post-master-General, visited Japan recently, and consulted with the Japanese authorities on the question of emigration, as it affected Canada. In an interview in London a few days ago, he said that no arrangement had .been concluded, but believed a solution could be reached). UNDERTAKING BETWEEN CANADA AND JAPAN CONFIRMED. Received January 17, 11.45 p.m. OTTAWA, January 17. A satisfactory understanding between Canada and Japan, to restrict the number of labourers emigrating to Canada, has been confirmed in official circles. SHIPPING RATES. CUNARD LINE'S CONCESSION. Received January 17, 8.35 a.m. LONDON, January 16. The Cunard line ; has conceded a differential rate of 10s between the Mauretania and Lusitania's thirdclass passengers and other Cunard an,d White Star liners. The White Star line claimed a 153 Differential rate. '■■..'.. REPORTED FOUNDERING OF A ■....■:.■>■: vessel. ..; ; ALL HANDS DROWNED. Received January 17, 10.35 p.m. OTTAWA, January 17. A quantity of wreckage found at Vancouver indicates the founderingof the British vessel Hartfield, from Liverpool. The crew numbered thirty, including Captain Anderson's wife and family. AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO. A PLOT THAT FAILED. Received January 17, 8.25 a.m. MOROCCO, January 16. A plot to re-establish the Sultan Abdul Aziz at Fez failed. (Mulai Hafid, the Pretender, was recently proclaimed Sultan at Fez). A STUBBORN FIGHT. HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED ON THE REBELS. Received January 17, 11.59 a.m. MOROCCO, January 17. General Damade, with four battalions of infantry, three squadrons of cava'ry, and a battery of artillery, for sixteen hours fought an obstinate battle at Settat Pass against Mullai Rachid's army, reinforced by the Shawis tribes, who participated in the last mass£ce.

Heavy losses were inflicted, and Mullai Rachid's camp beyond the pass was destroyed and his followers scattered. They will be unable henceforth to keep the passage clear for Mullai Hafid's advance on Fez. General Damade's casualties weie. slight.