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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10967, 6 January 1912, Page 4

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tßr Electric Telegraph—Copyrichx.] (Per Press Association.) UNITED STATES TARIFF. "Washington. Janunry 5. -. The first tarilf re-visions will be in rhe iron and sterl schedules. The subcommittees of the Ways and Means Committee recommends that free iron ore be admitted at a general reduction of 20 to 30 per centum, and an increase on all steel and iron products. FIRE AT LOUISVILLE. New York, January 5. A fire at Louisville. Kentucky, destroyed a large business district. RECORD COLD. New York-, January 5. Ice Forms instantly ■owing' to the record cold. MONASTERY DESTROYED 13 Y EIRE Ottawa, January 5, A Trappist Monastery at Rasthcrar Saskatchewan, lias been destroyed by fire. Fifty monks will be-dependent on the farmers' charity until the} are able to rebuild in the spring. i DREADNOUGHT BUILDING. Receiv cd January 5, at 11 5 p.m. Loudon, Januaiy 5. . Twenty-three Dreadnought* of all. nations arc now building in the United Kingdom, costing £41,400,000, whereof. £28,980,000 is m wages, repicseiiting 35s ajweek to BSjSOO men. Received January 0", at 9 10 a m. r . London, Jailuaiv 5. The- Admiralty- has ordered atGicenock a submarine of the Laurenti typo, with a double hull. PUBLIC LOANS' RAISED IN ENGLAND .' <- »■* " London/ Jajinary 5. ' Public loans raised in: England dining 110.1 totalled- £64,358,000, compared w lth £143,342,000 for the previous, ycai, these totals including £19,800,000 colonial loans, compared with £43,126,500. MOROCCO TROUBLE. Tangier, January 5. The cruiser Duchayla lias : been ordered to Agadir. The Maghzen'.s garrison, under French instructions, after a sharp fighfc drove off "tribesmen at Sefru. Eiftyfavc Shereefians. were killed and fifteen wounded. . - " silverTquotation. Rccencd January 6, at 11.10 a in. London, December 5. Silver, 2.5jd. ESPIONAGE PRISONERS. Received January 6>«at 11.10 a.m. • - Berliuy. January 5. Trent a"iid Brandon, imprisoned in a fortress after their conviction for espionage, aie subjected?to the most rigorous lostnctions owing to Lnx's escape. STEEL BOUNTY. Ottawa, January 5. A deputation representing the iron and steel industry 'of the Dominion de-, manded that the Government restore the steel bounty. The Government was unable to'give'its assurances. TAX OX CLEANLINESS AND HEALTH. Ottawa, January o. The bath tub tax at Montreal—a relic! of the olden times- —is "about to beabolished. -The imposition was first made when baths were luxuries for the.rich.