of Trade Manila, April 18.
Governor-General Wood has made a statement to the effect that he protesting to Washington in regard to the sale of the Pacific Mail Hiners to the Dollar Steamship Company, because the result will be a virtual monopoly, fully as prejudicial to the Philippines as the application of the coastwise shipping law would The Governor-General is incor parating in his protest similar ob-Jections on the part of the local American and Filipino Chambers of Commerce.—Reuter's Pacific Service,
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