BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
London, March 22. The ' Times ' bespeaks the Empire's heartiest approval of the decision in connection with commissions for Australians in the Imperial army, and says that it is but one other stop towards a far-reaching plan of welding the British might in one. March 23. The Bank of Agra, whose head oflice is in London, with several branches in India, has decided to voluntarily liquidate. The Oxford-Cambridge boat race is exciting attention. Oxford did a poor trial. The Cambridge crew are strong favorites. March 24. Appleton's, the well-known New York publishing firm, has failed, with liabilities of over a million dollars. The wool sales have fallen flat and merinos have been largely withdrawn. The" wool sold to Home buyers was 83,000 bales ; for the Continent, 59,000 ; for America, 10,000 ; sent forward to the mills, 109,000. It was a quiet closing and compared with January sales merinos have declined 10 to 10J per cent., medium and low orossbreds 10 to 15 per cent.
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 716, 27 March 1900, Page 2
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