CABLEGRAMS.
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Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
TAXATION: OF. GROUND VALUES. ''. ' ' •'LONDON, December 20.
(Received. De.q. 20, .at 4.50 p.m.)
The London County Council have resolved to ■pronjDte.a bill for the taxation of ground values.-■ •..• ,■;
raised! ;to th"E peerage.
The Right HoQ.'Mr Gosohen and Sir M. White-Ridley have been created viscounts. PIGEONS FOR.- MILITARY PURPOSES.
Large pigeon, lofts for military- purposes arg being, established at Aldershot, the Crystal Palace, and elsewhere.
HOXLAifD" AND THE VENEZUELA ' DISPUTE.
(Received Dec. 20, at 11.1 p.m.)
Holland does not accept the Paris award in connection .with the British-Venezuela dispute, as far as the Anglo-Dutch frontier is .concerned; anil has;nQtified Great Britain that Dr Beaufort is considering what steps shall ■be -taken regarding the Surinam boundary. ....'■ ,
BLOOD' IS THrOKEfI THAN WATER. ■ J " BERLIN, December 19. ' (Received Dec. 20, at 4.50 p.m.) Tl\e Kaiser, fii. thanking Admiral .Fischer, commanding the Mediterranean station, for sending assistance to -the Gneisenan, said the action Showed jjiiit sailors were comrades all the world over: blood was thicker than .water. ;
INTERCOLONIAL.
Press AgsociatioiT—-By Telegraph—Copyright.
THE PACIFIC CABLE.
MELBOURNE, December 20. (Received Deo. 20. at 10.30 a.m.) 'iae Pacific Cable Authorisation Bill has passed all its stages. .... DISASTROUS BUSH FIRES. , .; . - SYDNEY, December 20. (Received Dec.!'.2O^ at 10.30 a.m.) ■ Owing to the fires in the Cnolamon district, many farmers have been totally ruined, and their families.'are homeless. The fires round Albury are., subsiding. At least £10,000 worth of M'heat has been destroyed.
REDUCTJON OF CABLE RATES.
ADELAIDE, December 20.
The Easterrt" Extension Cable' Company win reduce rates to 3s 6d per word on the Ist of Jami'ary." There will, however, be no alteration .in the press rate.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11922, 21 December 1900, Page 4
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