CABLE MESSAGES.
[renter's cablegrams.]
BY ELECTRIC TELE GUtAPH— COP YRTOHT
LONDON, Jan. 15
To-day's Daily Telegraph announces that tho English and German Governments, regarding Samoa, have mutually agreed to abstain from^annexing the islands; *
At the conference <?f working men of Great Britain, nowJbeingheld, resolutions were adopted declaring that the fiscal and political federation of the Mother Country and the Colonies was necessary, and urging its adoption. Many of the speakers declared strongly in favour of the abolition of the Colonial Office.
BEELIN, Jan. 14
The question of granting subsidies to steamship companies is still under discussion in the Eeichstag. At today's sitting of the sub-committee appointed to consider the details of tho scheme, the Government supporters strongly advocated the establishment, with Government aid, of a line of mail steamers to SamQa and Tonga, via Australian Colonies, as a means of increasing the prestige of the Empire.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1789, 17 January 1885, Page 2
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146CABLE MESSAGES. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1789, 17 January 1885, Page 2
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