BRITISH AND FOREIGN
United Pr&ss Association—By Electric' Telegraph—Copyright. " FREEMAN'S JOURNAL." LONDON. March 20. The "Freeman's Journal" has passed to the control of a Nationalist Committee, Mr Sexton, the chairman, retiring. RUMOURED SHIPPING CONSOLIDATION. Peninsular and Oriental deferred shares spurted to £235 on rumours of a general consolidation of Far Eastern shipping interests. COMPULSORY ACQUISITION. Notice of the compulsory acquisition of lands in Galway belonging to Lord Clanricarde lias been gazetted. The Congested Districts Board offered £228,075. SHORTAGE OF COAL. WASHINGTON, March 20. A coal shortage threatens Navy supplies. The secretary of the Navy has arranged for a conference of bituminous coal operators with a view to securing an adequate supplv. TAXATION OF SALARIES. The House of Representatives adopted bv a large majority the Democratic Excise Bill, taxing salaries exceeding one thousand a vear. BOMB EXPLOSION. LISBON, March 20. Bombs manufactured on a barber's premises at Oporto exploded, wrecking four houses. Four persons were killed and five injured. A POLAR. EXPEDITION. ST PETERSBURG, March 20. Captain Sodoff is organising an expedition to start in the summer for Franz Josef Land, from where he will make a da«h for the Pole.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10416, 21 March 1912, Page 1
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