"AGE" SPECIALS.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) 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 reduce the present rate of tariff on vessels passing through, and they also promise an increase in the number of English representatives on the Board ■ and Management' Committee. Tho French Senate has rejected the proposal to appoint a Civil Committee to inquire into tho relations existing between France and Tonquin with a to pacific settlement. A League is being formed in New York for the purpose of preventing Government officers from entering into trading transactions. The League will also seek to abolish civil service pensions, ind the system of annual appointments. . Gait, late High Commissioner in London for the Dominion of Canada, left London yesterday. Before his departure he was honored with several audiences by the Queen.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1395, 4 June 1883, Page 2
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150"AGE" SPECIALS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1395, 4 June 1883, Page 2
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