BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
United Pros Association— Per Electric Telegraph— Copyright. A NEW YORK "SKYSCRAPER. - ' NEW YORK, February 22. ; The extension of the Singer Company's building in New York includes a "skyscraper" of forty storeys, with, a tower 594 feet high, containing officers. THE GERMAN TARIFF. Germany wil nor enforce .the maximum tariff against the United Stales fcra year, hoping to make a permanent' arrangement meanwhile.. • ..•'£>■••■'■- ■•??' IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY. The production of iron and; steel rails of all kinds in America last year totalled 3,372,000 tons, showing an increase of 1,087.000 tons. - . 7 A SWIMMING RECORD. At the amateur swimming races in New
York. Daniels covered sixty-six yards in 31"i-sthsec a record for the distance.
' Received 11.26 p.m.. Februarv 23rd. COLONIAL BOROWTNG. !•"-'. LONDON, February 23. ! ' In reference to the recent New Zealand (issue the financiers of London consider that |the colonies were-ill-advised'to issue locally Joans which may be transferred : to 'London iafterwards. When local issues are made ■interest .and-'principal-ought to be payable ionlv in the colonies. • '
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12909, 24 February 1906, Page 5
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