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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10018, 17 June 1895, Page 3

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London, June 12. Mr Borthwiek believes tho rise in Now Zealand frozen mutton will be permanent, owing to the working clusaea purchasing. .The present stocks are light, and ia the event) of an increase be thinks tbo price would not be reduced beyond a half -penny per lb. * At the meeting of the P. and O. Company the chairman said be did not expect any marked revival ia Eastern trade, as the Chinese were slow in war, and would prove Blow in commerce. The Japanese were decidedly more active, and would foon be a great competitor against England in the Indian cotton trade. As compared with 1894, there was in additional foes on exchange ot £20,000, absorbing the entire increase in earniugs in passenger freights. The Archbishop of Canterbury sfcateß that the authorities providing compulsory secular education are boiind to provide religions instruction, parents being allowed to choose the religion ia which their children shall be brought up. He deolarea that) the prevalence of juvenile crime emphasises tbo necessity for religions teaching. The Press generally recognise that the fact) of the Government advancing the resolution foi reform of the House of Lords paints to an early dieaolntion of Parliament. Cape Town, June 12. Iu the House of Assembly, the Klght Hon. Cecil Khodes (Premier) moved that Btep3 be taken to annex British Bechuanaland, The charter, he said, was reedy, and it was intended, with the coneent of the Imperial Government, to assume the administration of that territory. It was, confinned Mr Rbodee, expected that a Government wonld be established at the Cape, which wonld have control ot tbe conntry as a far as Lake Tanganyika, and that tbi? wonld bs broogbfc abont by Federation and a nnifnrm tariff. The motion was adopted. Tokio, June 12. The treaty which Japan has entered Into with Kafeii is Identical with that between Japan and Great Britain, and contains the most favored nation clause.