Special Cables.
[PEE FBESS ASSOCIATION,! London, March 5. Humbury and Co., smelters, have advised that it is useless to send Broken Hill sulphides unless silver rises. , ■ The Times and the Echo both recommend that Great Britain, instead of pauperising people out of work, should arrange for labour colonies similar to that at Leongatha, in Victoria. The Nationalists are agreeable to accept Mr Herbert Gladstone as Secretary for Ireland in place of Mr John Morley, but probably Mr Acland, now vice-President of the Council, will be appointed. The British troops in West Africa fought Fodislah's natives in the scrub for three hours,' then charged with bayonets and completely routed them. The outer line of the fort was taken and destroyed. Washington, March 6. ! It is reported that the Senate has determined to impose a tax of 15 per cent on wool. The Finance Committee of the Democratic section of the Senate has agreed to replace the taxes on coal, iron and sugar, and retain the Income Tax. ■-
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 257, 7 March 1894, Page 2
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166Special Cables. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 257, 7 March 1894, Page 2
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