HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.
VOLUNTARY bCHOOLS BILL. THREATENED STRIKE BY i BUILDERS. ; LOW RATES OF INTEREST. i INFLATED CONSULS. (Per Press Association). j London, April 20. The lew Alburnia Company, Hauraki, with a capital of £108,000, is issuing j870,000. The Opposition will move the rejection of the Voluntary Schools Bill. The London Building Unions threaten a strike in May for £d per hour increase and a new code of rules. The Financial News advises the creditors of Australian Banks to accept a moderate scaling down of the rates of interest. They will be glad in the end, if prudent counsels prevail. The Times says it is Government purchases on behalf of thp Post Office that have inflated consuls to the present high pitch, and under the circninptance3 it is unfair to treat them as a standard of values. Ottawa. April 19. The Canadian Commons passed an unanimous resolution urging the Powers to take united action to ameliorate the condition of Christians in Turkey. Berlin, April 20. It ia reported that the Government has t'ecided to purchase from the German New Guinea Company its territory in New Guinea for half a million marks. Vienna, April 20. Doctor Luejjer has been re elected Mayor of Vienna.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 245, 21 April 1896, Page 2
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