CABLE BREVITIES.
The French Budget Committee have recommended sweeping taxation reductions, and insist that the taxes shall be reduced to the extent of twenty-nine million francs.
The strike of the Lucknow miners shows signs of collapsing. With one exception the surface men have returned to work, having made arrangements as to terms.
The Mariposa, which left Sydney for AucklandyesterdaS took 275,000 sovereigns shipped by the following banks:—Bank of Australasia, London Bank of Australia, the Commercial Bank, and the English and Scottish Bank.
Sir Richard llenn Collins, one of the Justices of the Queen's Bench, succeeds Sir Nathaniel Linley, recently appointed Master of the Rolls, vice Lord' Esher.
The Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of the Bluecoat Boys School at Howsham. The remains of Tasrna (Madame Couvreur), the well-known Australian novelist and writer, have been cremated.
Wheat at Mark Lane is 9d dearer than it was his., week.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 248, 26 October 1897, Page 5
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