Franco-Japanese Treaty.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 38, 7 May 1907, Page 4

Franco-Japanese Treaty.

PARIS, May 6. Prince Fushimi, the Japanese special envoy and brother of the Mikado, is visiting Paris. The newspapers announce that progress is being made with the negotiations for tho treaty between France and Japan, under which would be mutually guaranteed each others* possessions in the Far East.

LONDON, May 6.

The Woolwich men are petitioning the King and sending to His Majesty deputations protesting against tho continued discharge of tho employees. It has been ascertained that Germany is paying some of the men discharged at Woolwich as much as £6 a week.

LONDON, May 5. Sir Joseph Ward, Sir Bobert Bond (Premier of Newfoundland), Mr. F. B. Moor (Premier of Natal) and Mr. Botha were presented with the freedom of the City of Manchester. The ceremony was followed by a luncheon, at which the speeches made emphasised the necessity of developing the trade between Lancashire and the colonies. Sir Joseph Ward made an earnest appeal for reciprocity, wanting his hearers not to neglect the German competition.

MELBOURNE. Monday. A youth named Grace wan the w itness of an unknown man’s brutal attack upon a woman. He was infuriated by the ruffian’s behaviour and flung himself upon him and struck him a terrific blow, which felled him to the earth. On examination it was found the man w as dead.