SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(To the Age.) LONDON, May 23. The Suez Canal Company have made an offer to Lord Granville,'to the effect that if the construction of a second canal is effected, they will redace the present rate of the tariff to vessels passing through. They also promised to increase the number of English representatives on the Board of. Management.„ The Committee of the French Senate has rejected a proposal to appoint a ’Civil Commissioner to inquire into the relations existing between France and Tonquin, with a view to a pacific settlement. A league is being formed in New York for the purposo of preventing the Government officers from entering into trading transactions. The league will also seek to abolish Civil Service pensions and the system of annual appointments. Sir A. Galt, late High Commiesioner in London for the Dominion of Canada, left London yesterday;:: ; Before his’ departure he was honoured' with several audiences by the Queen.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1042, 4 June 1883, Page 3
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156SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1042, 4 June 1883, Page 3
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