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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1074, 13 March 1911, Page 6

The Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board invites tenders tor the supply of a number of articles, particulars of which appear iu an advertisement in this issue." At the meeting of the Japanese Parliament the Marquis Katsura, who is Premier and Finance Minister, made a very reassuring opening speech. Jle intimated that it was tiie fixed intention of the present Government to put tho finauecs of the country on a solid basis, and to ensure good credit for Iho National Debt. The (vjvernment' loans of Japan aro very largely held in lSritain probably in eonsequence of tho Japan-British Alliance. Count Komura, the Foreign Minister, made a similar speech, in which he spoke of the Alliance in terms of the highest gratification as a powerful factor in tho preservation of peace in tho Far East. President Taft, in a speech at Now York, said that it was perfectly plain that the Panama Canal was meant to be for the United States an instrument of defence, and "the guaranty of neutrality in tho treaty is subject, and necessarily subject, to this construction." The canal, he declared, must defend itself, as in any war the. Navy would be required far odeum- , nurposos,