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Newspaper
Nanaimo Mail
Location
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Mar 14, 1896
Page
4
The Wanaimo Mail notes broader tax tensions and tariff implications, cites Dawson on the breakfast table tax, and critiques naval spending as Parliament considers expenditures. It also discusses reformatories, Niagara Falls bridge plans, and Wellington postal disputes, highlighting cross border and provincial concerns.
An anonymous Edinburgh Review writer surveys Queen Victoria’s coming fifty-ninth year and record two generations of rule. It notes Britain’s global expansion, rail and sea power growth, and rapid population shifts, with references to Ireland, Egypt, Cyprus, and Transvaal events, alongside tech progress and naval change. It also touches on Italian Abyssinian wars, Canadian immigration policy, tea cigarette trends, wage disputes between white workers and Chinese labor, and imperial boundary disputes.
The Provincial Government declines the British Pacific Railway proposal citing annual costs of at least 253000 for 25 years and a 12 million acre land gift with only 200000 security, warning private schemers would reap large dividends while the state bears risk. Government says it would fund the project itself if required.
A Hamilton Herald remark notes the fading impression that Sir Charles Tupper is the only man on earth as that notion dissolves amid broader recognition.
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