CABLE MESSAGES.
LATEST EUROPEAN
(Reuters special to the Press
Agency)
London, April 2,
Sir W. Or. Jervois has arrived,
April 4,
Budget: Expenditure, £81,000,000, leaving an ordinary deficit of £500,00§, and an extraodinary deficit of £5,300,000, whereof £2,000,000, will be left next year. The income tax is increased 2d, tobacco 4d, dog tax 2s 6d. Official despatches show that Russia is treating Roumania imperiously, and refuses to discuss the congress question with Bessarabia. Berlin, April 4. Germany refuses to enter a European Peace Congress without England. St. Petersburg, April 5. It is semi-officially stated that England merely proffers objections, but if she made definite proposals Russia would endeavour to make them the basis of agreement. London, April 6.
The British Ambassador at St. Petersburg reports that if the cession of Bessarabia be resisted Russia will take steps to forcibly disarm the Roumanian army.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 180, 9 April 1878, Page 3
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143CABLE MESSAGES. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 180, 9 April 1878, Page 3
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