HOME AND FOREIGN.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. Received December 27th, 9.50 a.ra. ANTI-SUGAR BOUNTY LEAGUE. London, December 26. The Anti-Sugar Bounty League, representing the sugar refining industries of Great Britain and the colonies, waited on the Government urging it to assist in the abolition of duties. REVOLT AGAINST PORTUGUESE. Capetown, December 26. Two tribes have revolted against the Portuguese at Mossninedes, a seaport of West Africa,, and twenty Portuguese were killed. FAMINE IN ALGERIA. Paris, December 26. The Governor of Algeria is pressing the Chamber of Deputies to allot a million and a quarter francs towards the relief of the famine in Algeria. NEW STEAMSHIP LINES. Berlin, December 26. Germany is arranging to subsidise new steamship lines to India. CRETAN AFFAIRS. Athens, December 26. The Cretan Assembly has published' a protest against the injustioe of the tribute they have been called upon to pay Turkey. Received December 28th, 12.05 a.m. WEST AFRICA. Paris, December 27. Lβ Matin states that the British position at Boussa blocks the settlement of the West Africa question, and advises France to yield there in order to keep a free hand in China. OBITUARY. The death is announced of Mr Charles Harrison, Liberal member for Plymouth, aged 62. [Mr Harrison was a solicitor, and was educated at King's College school. He was brother-in-law to the Earl of Lanesborough, and was vice-chairman of the London County Council,]
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9920, 28 December 1897, Page 4
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