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[Per Easby at Wellington.) London, June 15. The tenders for the San Francisco permanent service, of which there were six, have been opened, The Pacific mail and railway combination is the lowest. For a service via Fiji they ask L 89,500, and via Auckland, L 74,500. [lt was of this company that the ‘Southern Cross * San Francisco correspondent wrote • —‘ They are one of the largest, if not the very largest steamship company in the States’ and their name is a guarantee that neither ability nor capital will be wanting on their part to mate the line a success. The City of Petin, next to tho Great Eastern, the largest steamer in the world, belongs to this Company.”] ■ The concordat between Russia and the Vatican as announced by * L’Univers ’ has been contradicted. There is to be only a rapprochement. Alexander Collie, comm'ssion merchant oi London and Manchester, has suspended payment, with liabilities estimated at three millions. 1 d Carnarvon has received numerous deputations, which urged upon him the desirability of annexing New Guinea. He stated, in reply, that it was a step requiring very careful consideration.
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Evening Star, Issue 3849, 25 June 1875, Page 3
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188LATEST FROM EUROPE. Evening Star, Issue 3849, 25 June 1875, Page 3
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