CANADA AND JAPAN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9039, 24 January 1908, Page 5

CANADA AND JAPAN.

IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS. CERTAIN EXEMPTIONS TO BE PERMITTED. Received January 23, 8.5 a.m. OTTAWA, January 22. Mr Lemieux, Postmaster-General and Minister for Labour, in his statemen 4 ; delivered in the Dominion House of Commons, in reference to his recent visit to Japan* said that bona fide Japanese students, merchants and tourists would continue to be admitted to Canada. The Japanese Foreign Minister, interviewed, said that, recognising that emigration of Japanese labourers under that guise would be embarrassing to the United States, the Japanese Government had determined to prevent the emigration of labourers. Should emigration from Hawaii not entirely be prevented, Viscount H?iyashi said he would entirely prohibit emigation to Mexico. He justified the Japanese Government's policy towards America on the score of consideration of Japan's commercial interests. THE MADISON SQUARE MURDER. TRIAL OF HARRY THAW. EXTRAORDINRAY EVIDENCE. Received January 23, 9.40 p.m. NEW YORK, January 23. At the trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, Mr Anthony Comstock, President of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, testified that Thaw called on him in 1904, and complained that a gang of six or seven rich criminals conducted orgies, and drugged and ill-treated young girls at two houses in New York. Thaw said that one room was furnished Hits a forest with secret stairs leading *;o another room hung with mirrors. Tiie drugged girls were unable to escape as the doors were difficult to find. He described a third room, which was approached by a door concealed behind a picture, and declared that the room contained a valuable French painting of a peculiarly infamous suggestiveness. Thaw gave the names of five girls who were victims and offered t> supply secret service funds. He also suggested that Helen Gould might be asked to subscribe. Mr Comstock stated that he had never gained admission to the houses in question. The prosecution insisted that Thaw's communications to Comstock indicated that lie was sane.

AMERICAN MARINE. REQUIRES PROMPT LEGISLATION. Received January 23, 9.22 p.m. NEW YORK, January 23. A convention of the United States Boards of Trade, held at Washington, resolved "that the commercial interests of the country require prompt legislation to re-establish the American;marine." STEAMERS IN COLLISION. ~ A BOAT MISSING. Received January 23, 11.25 p.m. LONDON. January 23. During a thick fog ths Great Eastern Railway Company's steamer Amsterdam collided off the Hook, Holland, with the British steamer Axminster. The Amsterdam's passengers took to the boats, and all are safe except one loat containing 25 passengers and members of the crew which is missing. ART EXHIBITIONS FOR AUSTRALIA. IS A RBEACH OF FAITII IMPLIED? Received January 23, 8.20 a.m. LONDON, January 22. A deputation from the Royal British and Colonial Society of Artists interviewed the Hon. J. W. Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria, and complained that a breach of faith was implied in a report that the Victorian Government intends to prohibit the sale of pictures loaned to Mr Joshua Lake. The society had approached its members on the understanding that the pictures to be exhibited in Australia could be for sale in the usual way. HOUSE OF LORDS. LORD CUIIZON AS A PEER. IS HE ENTITLED TO SIT? Received January 23, ft.3B a.m. LONDON, January 22.

In connection with the recent election of a representative Irish peer to fill the vacancy caused by! the death of Lord Kilmairie, unci which resulted in the return of Lord Curzon, formerly Viceroy of India, a technical point has arisen, which will be left to the House of Lords to decide. The point is: Is Lord Cur/,on entitled to the seat, as he technically failed to establish his right to votejat an election of representative peers? Lord Ashtown polio l the next highest; number of votes.

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