FREIGHT RATES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 18 June 1913, Page 5

FREIGHT RATES.

. OTTA^'A, June 17, GoVprßiiifeh't'iSj,considering the formation <6f i comnussibn of inieriiatibnal scope, wi£h the .object of controllino; Atlantic: freight,.ra'tesv The question will'b© Verftilated in Parlirfme'nt,' when it will be 'assented that an Atlantic -pool is f steadi) y increasing freight rates. AMERICA^ POLITICS. •* : ; 'WASHINdTONr^p"? IVY, ■■" Mr Bryan'has signed a'"spe'eial treaty extending arbitration to NQrway for an-:, otherrfive- years"; 1. Further Senaf-a .riegb--tiations have resulted in ahe removal, with the Presidential approval, of all ..duties on imp.or.t*:ent^riiig--into the .cb&t: of living. Flax and hemp -will also be free-listed.