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Show A Huge Contract. The Peruvian congress Is progressing Bpeedily in the discussion of the Don-oughmore Don-oughmore contract Five articles ure already approved the first, by which the bondholders declare tho foreign debt of Peru as finally canceled; the second giving them the railways of the state for sixty-Bix yeara (the perpetual possession did not meet with approbation); the third giving them 2,000,000 tons of guano, although al-though the entire amount now exported does not reach over 600,000 tons; the use of the road and appurtenances thereof there-of on the Arequipa railway, and the I navigation of Lake Titicaca under the j national flan; and in national vessels, with the Peruvian officers in uniforms. All j these have been passed. Once a Week. |