AN OPIUM TREATY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10763, 10 May 1911, Page 4

AN OPIUM TREATY.

[By Electric Telegram:—Copyright.]

(Pee Press Association.) Peking, May 9. Britain and China have signed a prolongation of the opium agreement fori Wen. years, but Britain will stop the export at an earlier date if it is shown" that China does not produce native opium, nor conveys it to any Chinese •province which does not cultivate or import native opium; but "the ports of Canton and Shanghai are exempted under, this provision. ■ - J., Britain' accepts an increase or the opium duty, which some Chinese provincial authorities imposed regardless of treaties, and undertakes, further, the prescribed annual reduction of onethird of the uncertificated Indian opium in bond in China on given dates.