London.
The Vienna correspondent of the Times telegraphs that if the Powers fail to compel the Porte to execute the navr reform*, the resources of diplomacy are well nigh exhausted, and there will be created a most serious siou&ti in.
The General Post Office is carrying out a series of experiments in the transmission of electric waves. These have been transmitted and received without any connecting wires. Mr W. Henry Presce, Engi-
neer-in* Chief of the Engineering Department of Telegraphs, considers that the system will be of considerable value as a means of communication between lighthouses and ships at sea.
At a meeting of citizens, of all shades of religion and polities, in Cork, a resolution was carried that it was imperative to reduce Imperial taxation.
In the course of a speech on the occasion, Lord Castletoun declared that it was crual taxation that lostAmerica.
The Anglo-American arbitration treaty decides all disputes for the past five years, including the Alaska question, and excepting the Venezuelan and the Behiing Sea disputes.
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Manawatu Herald, 17 December 1896, Page 2
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170London. Manawatu Herald, 17 December 1896, Page 2
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