GENERAL NEWS.
EFROPEAX AND FOREIGN
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St. -lames Gazette suggests that the Irish whisky duty should be applied as in a similar case in France to purposes of local Government.
Her Majesty has approved of the retention by J. G. Ward of the title of Honorable.
Tiie Spectator advocates the expenditure of titty millions in live years on the construction of warships in order to convince France that it is hopeless to compete with the increasing strength of the British Navy. Colontl Henry White and Colonel Grey, tun of .Tamieson's party who were sentenced in July to five month's imprisonment, without hard labor, for the part they took in the raid have been released. Calcutta, Pec. 27. Much needed heavy rain has fallen at Oude. Rome, Pec. 27. The Holy Synod has excommunicated Count Lyof Tolstoi and prohibited his writings on the ground of heresy. Nkw York, Pec. 27. The Princess Caraman Chinary, daughter of an American Plutocrat, has eloped with a Hungarian gipsy.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 206, 28 December 1896, Page 3
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170GENERAL NEWS. Hastings Standard, Issue 206, 28 December 1896, Page 3
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