THE FREIGHTS QUESTION. A DIVERSION OF TONNAGE.
Ghristchtjrch, September 8. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, a3 a commentary on the action of the Freight Reduction Committee endeavouring to fotce freights down below a paying price, hare ordered their ship Brussels, now lying at Napier, to a foreign port where she can obtain a payable freight. Owing to the unremunerative rates of freight the New Zealand Shipping Company have disposed of the Ruapahu and intend to place the Tekoa in the Japanese trade.
A contemporary gravely announces that fa person whose death it records was a victim of bad health.
Ifc came out in a recent Police Court prosecution in Sydney that the daily earnings of an aged and partially blind street organist there were from 20s to 50s,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2272, 16 September 1897, Page 9
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129THE FREIGHTS QUESTION. A DIVERSION OF TONNAGE. Otago Witness, Issue 2272, 16 September 1897, Page 9
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