THE MIKADO'S NATAL DAY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 1885, 4 November 1904, Page 5

THE MIKADO'S NATAL DAY.

TO-DAY’S CABLE NEWS.

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CELEBRATED IN SYDNEY

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Sydney, November 3. The Japanese Consul entertained a number of leading citizens on the occasion of the Mikado’s birthday. He thanked the people of the Commonwealth and New Zealand for the kindness extended to Japan. He felt some delicacy in referring to tbe Immigration Restriction Act, but said that every nation had a right to adopt whatever means she thought necessary to preserve her national interests and institutions. I ime alone could be trusted to prove whether or not tbe means taken were the best available. The fears entertained by the people about the “yellow peril” were groundless. “ There is no justification," he said, “ for the idea that we should be so inflated by the lust of conquest ’.hat, just for tbe sake of fighting, we should attack some other nation in order to avenge some slight which will in all probability do more harm to the country which offered it than to us, and, least of all, should we be likely to come into conflict with aDy part of the great Empire we so much respect, and with whom we have so much in common ? The people who have scared themselves with such silly fears have paid poor compliments to their own country, and at the same time they have -hown that they know nothing at a'l of curs."