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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7371, 19 November 1898, Page 3

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(By Elbotbio Telegraph—Copyeighr.) fPXB UNITED PRESB ASSOCIATION.) Received November 19. at 9.10 a.m. Month "Video, November 18. Sailed—Ochtertyre, for Auckland. Received November 19, at 1.12 p.m. Paris, November 18. Dreyfus will probably be confronted with Captain Le Bran, Renaad, and Colonel Paty de Clam. London, November 18. Th 6 Canadian gift to the West Indian Famine Relief Fond is 25,000 dollars. Rome, November 18. The Italian crniser Umbria has been despatched to Mazroganellija, on the west coast of Morocco, to present an ultimatum tD Morocco for its illtreatment and imprisonment of Italians. Received November 19, at 1.15 p.m. London, November 18. The P. and O. Company has declared a dividend of 5£ per cent, upon its deferred stock. Messrs Mußgrove and Darrell have engaged M. Rongemont on a lecturing tour. Pretoria, November 18. The Transvaal Government has imposed a 2$ per cent, tax upon the gross of the Mynepacht Rand Fountain Goldmining Companies, which are worked at a profit, and propose a five per cent, tax on the net profits cf other mines. Shanghai. November 18. Chinese rebels looted the town of Kweichoufu, in the province of Suchwan, and bnrned the French mission house.