GENERAL NEWS.
EUROPEAN AND FOREIGN. ( P.'l- PIVN.x Association. < '<>j,;iriijht ) London, March 22. Lord Salisbury has received from the Netherlands Government £11,0*2, being payment of the award in the Cost Rica Packet case. The money has been handed to Sir Saul Samuel for transmission to Sydney. At the wool sales inferior classes were slightly easier. March 23. The unionist engineers in the shipbuilding yards on the north-east coast cease work on Saturday. The betting on the University boatrace is 3 to 1 on Oxford. Copenhagen, March 22. Berlingske Tidende, a newspaper published here, states than an agreement has been arrived at between Russia and Turkey by which the Czar guarantees the integrity of Turkey, receiving in return an island in the Mediterranean and the peninsula of Mount Athos.
Ro;ir;, .March 22. The Parliamentary elections resulted in a great victory for the Government. f'aKioi-.iA, March 2:i. An agreement has been arrived at between the Transvaal and the Orange Free State by which the burghers shall be entitled to the franchise in both states. The agreement, however, is subject to confirmation by the Yolksraud of booth Republics.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 279, 24 March 1897, Page 3
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184GENERAL NEWS. Hastings Standard, Issue 279, 24 March 1897, Page 3
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