state of anxiety for orders from the Government.

The story does not say how the matter was arranged, but as His Excellency
is now in New York, and war has not been declared by China, it is to be
supposed that he was not fumigated.

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The Japanese are a very progressive people.

A generation ago the inhabitants of Japan were not allowed to leave their
country, nor were foreigners permitted to enter it.

Since the war with China Japan has taken a wonderful start; her commerce
and manufactures have greatly increased, and her people have begun to seek
a better market for their labors, and emigrate to foreign countries.

Japan is a densely populated land, and the inhabitants have not been slow
to see that an overcrowded country, where thousands of people are
constantly unemployed, is not a good place to make money in.

Since the Japanese have been permitted to seek their fortunes in other
lands, they have emigrated in vast numbers.

They are now to be found all over the world.

We have spoken about them in Hawaii, but the Sandwich Islanders are not
the only people to protest against them as colonists.

In British Columbia they have arrived in such hordes that the Government