GENERAL CABLES.
Received March 23, 9.46 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, March 23. M. Kokostoffi has informed the Budget Committee of the Duma that new loans are inevitable, and emphasised the political indispensability j of constructing within five years the second trans-Siberian line a-nd the Amur railway, the total cost being £36,000,000. The extraordinary expenditure upon national defence during the next five years will total £32,000,0000. He explained that the tendency was for ordinary expenditure to increase in the case of countries passing from absolute regime to national representation. He foreshadowed the introduction of a 8.1 l dealing with income tax. Received March 23, 10.45 p.m. | PARIS, March 23. The French cruiser Cassard rescued the crew of the Laesiz. (Tha German-Australian liner Laesiz, from Sydney to Hamburg, struck a rock and foundered in the Red Sea. The crew took to the boats, were rescued, and were' landed at Aden.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9047, 24 March 1908, Page 5
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