NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.
J. Melville.—Tho Dunedin ofSce. is closed, but we believe the Auckland branch is still open. "Port Arthur."—By the Treaty of Portsmouth, September 5, 1905. Russia transferred to Japan, with the consent of China, the lease, which expires in 1923, of the Kwantung Province, including Port Arthur, and all rights, privileges, and concessions connected with' or forming part of such lease, and all public works and properties in tjio territory, Japan undertaking that the proprietary rights °l. subjects should be respected. V\ liilo in the occupation of Russia, Port Arthur became Europeanised, and tho transfer of tho lease would not presumably affect British interests in property. Whether that protection of British inlntorests would extend.to unclaimed pro- * pery at the present day we cannot definitely say in tho absence of detailed information. A
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18053, 29 September 1920, Page 4
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