LATE CABLE NEWS.
[HlbinT.K’s TKLI'.':K.\MS.] LdNiDN, Kuvcmln;r *2O. Haiion* Dk Worms, replying to a. tion fit>ui Lhu I>nt 1 1 o! Tr.ubs C llunuiht Umt tluj IrMuilics C'uL'n.MCi* ivC'ardeiJ the bounties a.-i excessive uiid impi-o-per. November o'). Tlio steAmshin cofiijutnies refuse L<> the contract for the of umils unless the jpocels uro exempted. They also chum a remission uf port cluesaud\vh:\rftines, And the cuhmius are to boar the cost of landing the mails. Owing to the coldness displayed by the Agents-Goneral in the matter, a meeting of co! oni.-ts has been convened to decide, the mode of celebrating the approaching centenary of Australia, Six hundred and sixty British exhibitors, and one hundred and fifty foreign exhibitors have applied for about -103,000 feet of space at the Melbourne exhibition. From Huddersfield alone application lias been made for 10,000 feet. Sir F. Leighton and Sir A. Agnew believe they can arrange for tiie loan of a collection of pictures worth a quarter of a million, it the, Victorian committee will grant the British Commission 2’>ooo. It is understood that Sir H. Sandford will represent Great Britain at the .Exhibition.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2403, 3 December 1887, Page 2
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187LATE CABLE NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2403, 3 December 1887, Page 2
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