SUEZ CANAL.
CONCESSION NEGOTIATIONS'- AND THE .- :W:;.. :/.DUES.V /-■'-.■/■, -.-.,; ■London;, October 28. -With regard to tho present negotiations for a forty .years'.extension (from 1908 to' 2008) of tho Suez' Canal Company's concession,-.the "Daily Telegraph," recalling the agitation some. time pgo.for a reduction :of;the' canal dues, remarks: ■'/' , ' N;/ . ; V ' '-~. ■■"The.New...Zealand Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, is tho- only public man who has drawn-attention;to tho Suez Canal. British opinion is apathetic. The shipowners who grumbled seemed.now to have thrown up the sponge, finding thattho British Government is only interested in getting, all the'revenue pos-' sible put of-the' .late/', Lord :Beaconsfield's in■.Testaent;":'-:.,''-.'.'/.-!';','•■'■'.!.'■'•/ ■• '.'• '--,'.''.. i.-V'■.''■.','■. // //v. ,-: : ;'-.Molbourne, October;2s.-'■..- ', With:reference,to tho 'cable,message,stating that Sir Joseph Ward was tho only public man .who had interested himsolf. in the ;Sucz„Canai, Mr; Deakin /claims ■ that .Australia", made, thefirst ■ representations, regarding /tho Canal,', .and that New; Zealand followed. .. 1 .-::'V-; -, '■'.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 651, 30 October 1909, Page 5
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139SUEZ CANAL. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 651, 30 October 1909, Page 5
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