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THE COMMERCE OF THE EAST.

•' ITS DEVELOPMENT. AN ANGLO-AMERICAN UNION,

v i ' . v Washington; February 24. 1 .The' Hon! Wjlijitelaw.' Reid, editor-in-chief and principal, owner of the “New York Tribune,” one of the most influential of' American' newspapers, 1 and formerly United Sates Minister at Paris, was one of the leading speakers' at a banquet given at New York in honour of Lord Charles Beresford, who is returning via the North Pacific route and America from his: mission to-China and Japan on behalf of the Associated. Chambers pf Commerce of Great Britain., , -In the course of his speech Mr Reid predicted that the open-door policy of the United States in the Philippine Islands would be permanent; Ho said Great Britain, and the United States wbhld ' jn-ove 'irresistible. if ''they; presented a commmon front 1 on. the ■ question of the commercial development of China. . , - - » ■

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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3675, 27 February 1899, Page 5

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THE COMMERCE OF THE EAST. New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3675, 27 February 1899, Page 5

THE COMMERCE OF THE EAST. New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3675, 27 February 1899, Page 5