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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5151, 22 February 1888, Page 3

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(Received February 2:2, 1.5 p.m.) j SUGAR TRUST. j San Fkancisco, February 20. j A Sugar Trust has been forraed_ to regulate prices with a capital of sixty million dollars. AUSTRALIAN WHEAT. London, February 20. Australian wheat cargoes on the passage have been sold at 32s 7ld. SHIPPING QUESTION. Iho report of the Australian Shippers Committee bus beou adopted. The roport insists on the abolition of differential rates, the iippointmeul of v, standing committee for the protection of mutual interests, and recommends that disputes with regard to shipping be referred to arbitration. AN IMPORTANT PUBLICATION. The London Chamber of Commerce are purifying with the directors of the International Taritf Bureau with the object of arranging and printing , the tariffs of the world in four language**. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. It has been announced that the Government will revive the Department of Agriculture. BARON DE WORMS. Baron 11. de Worms, whois now Political Secretary for the Colonies, will continue to act as president of the Sugar Bounties Conference. ITALIAN AMBASSADOR. RoiiE, February '20. Count N. de Robilaut will succeed the late Count Corti as Italian Ambassador in London. Count do Robilant was Minister for Forcijni Affairs in the Depretis and Sarracco Cabinet*.