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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 Krüger is, however, too clever a man to allow this to be done