From a Tokyo, June 12. reconstructing itself, take the emigration question as tone of the most important problems) confronting the country in connexion with those of food and population. Generally speaking, efforts will be made to persuade emigrants to colonize the unopened parts of Hokkaido, Korea and South Saghalien and also to find homes in foreign countries where this can be as in Braz dame without provoking, opposition, The Government has found out in the light of past experience that the intelligenzia class do not make good emigrants; that the colonizers must be those who engage in agricultural pursuits and married couples are preferable for the purpose. It is planning to grant a larger subsidy than hitherto to emigration companies, of which there are at present 15.
The Department of Agriculture and Forestry is also to make special efforts to reclaim wild lands in the interior of the main-lands, by whicn means, it is calculated that the rice eld of the country may be increased 22,000,000 koku.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.