KING MANUEL'S CLEMENCY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13673, 14 February 1908, Page 5

KING MANUEL'S CLEMENCY.

:■■■. : ' . ... MUTINEERS PARDONED. c By Telegraph;—Pri>g» Assot , iatio»,.-*-Copyrifhi. ;>y;^;oyCßM^ } ; 'ebrtiary 35, tl.Si pan.* Lisbon, February lit. ' "" Kino Maniih. has granted an <uin< nesty to the pallors concerned in the '' mutiny ■>[ 1900. . * " - ■ , . --.;•. •■'■■-•■ ;,;.;; Australia is £o|ffip jff | THE STRAND SITE. , f , -' By TolcffKipli.— l J re-F. Association.—Copyright. iiO«Du», -February; i»/ . . J " ' iiOXi/u:c, l/ebruary 12. 'Lord Eloho, who represents the i. Strand in the London County Council, referred in the Council yesterday ..,' to the negotiations of the Commonwealth for he purchase of a site in _r, ' the Strand. He remarked that the ' - 'Commonwealth could have the site for their offices at the same proper* ; tionate * price m that at Vvhich Vic- > <; toria had paid for its 'offices. The committee, he went on, had , ;, done everything to meet the Commonwealth, but there had been no >■- serious advance on the first offer made. lie concluded that- the Com- . '„ mon wen I l-h was not serious, in th«» matter, though the jcommfctee should .... not close the. door if they felt that they would not keep other peopl« _ who we? anxious to negotiate from doing bo. , . A portion, of the Strand t-:t«. yim'»«r.ti»ig .; ~ t0■.1433ft, was offered to tho Vi-utoraw Government For £1079 pe. annum, .toiitri'to 15,: per foot. After negotiations with Mr, " ' Bent., the lx«vion County Council clo**i with en offer o/.-I&s I'tlp,' foot; equal to •„' £871 per annum, 'i lie {Jouruionweaith offered for its share of the block 12* 6d |*r1.,7\ foot, but the <iil>i Wat d-jcliiif'd. 'It is understood that the Government-is now. : prepared to give 13s per foot.'" ' . - .-.'' "'• -. . ......... -,„,.... ~.., .< -. -.. ' - .:., . ,