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The only news relating to Hawaiian matters this week is that Japan is
seriously angry with us over the treatment her Minister at Washington
has received at the hands of the Secretary of State.
It would seem that the Japanese are extremely precise and particular
about the way their diplomatic affairs are conducted.
Their idea of what is necessary on such occasions is very different from
ours, and unfortunately the Japanese Ministers both at Honolulu and
Washington have not received the treatment that, according to their
views, is due them.
Minister Hoshi, in Washington, is so indignant that he was not informed
of the negotiations in regard to the treaty, that it is said he has
asked to be recalled to Japan.
His displeasure has been increased by Secretary Sherman's failure to
reply to his letter asking for an explanation.
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We told you that England had been making arrangements with Portugal to
secure Delagoa Bay, in South Africa, and that this contract, if
concluded, would give Great Britain the control of the only port
available for the people of the Transvaal.
President Kr�ger is, however, too clever a man to allow this to be done
without making some effort to secure the port for himself.
We told you that Dr. Leyds had been sent to England by the Boer
Government to arrange the trouble over the Transvaal Raid.
Dr. Leyds had a further commission, which he did not mention while he
was in London.
This was to try and secure possession of Delagoa Bay for his own
country.
He went to Paris, and organized a company to buy from Portugal certain
lands in Africa which should include Delagoa Bay, its ports and customs.
To prevent England getting any knowledge of what was going on, the
matter was arranged in Paris, and appeared on the surface to be a French
speculation.
But it has come to light that the large sums of money which will have to
be paid to conclude the matter are being subscribed in part by German
financiers, and the rest by the National Bank of the Transvaal.
It seems that it is an arrangement between Germany and the Transvaal.
As we have told you before, Germany is quite friendly with the South
African Republic, so much so that, at the time of the raid, the Emperor
of Germany very much displeased the English people by sending President
Kr�ger a telegram congratulating him on his victory over the raiders.
It is said that neither the English nor the Boer-German offer for
Delagoa Bay has as yet been accepted by Portugal.
* * * * *
The news from India is of a very serious character.
We told you some months ago how the trees in Bengal province had been
marked, and how the European residents in India feared that it might be
the signal for another mutiny.
It would almost seem that their fears were well grounded.
On the clay of the Jubilee celebration in India the natives killed
Government officers in various parts of the country, and assumed a
hostile and impudent attitude toward Europeans generally.
Last week a riot broke out in one of the suburbs of the city of
Calcutta, and for more than forty-eight hours the mob held the town.
The trouble arose over a mosque or Mohammedan temple.
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