MORE MINING TROUBLE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 304, 17 September 1908, Page 9

MORE MINING TROUBLE.

i STRIKE THREATENED AT TARATUA. ';* cut" TBLBGsirsi—PRESS ASSOCIATION-.) Dunedin, Septemlicr 16. In coiisequence of the decision of the Arbitration Court in its recent award, tho Taratua. miners havo, intimated they will go out on strike on Saturday. Tho company-is determined, to close down tho mines sooner than make further concessions. .7.

. . To say that from 30,000 to 40,000 tort-oises arrive in England annually is by no means an ,eXaggeratibm. livor since Gilbert AYllito immortalised his irct tortoise.these animals have been/kept. by many people as "destroyers of •beetles and slugs and guardians of tho liifc,chen. garden," a falso idea that lio amount repudiation has been able to eliminate; ■ thougli they will eat snails with much relish, tlicy greatly prefer' their owner's choicest gar-, deli produce.. Nevertheless, a tortoise is tlib most, popular of reptiles.—"Field." ! At' the tinid'of Mr. Balfourjs resignation' vyo'-'had in- our hands all tho mast-or-cArris, whichj legitimately played, would have maia- | twnctl for the Empire and for tho efiioient [ English sorvani's of tho Crown that security I which tho results of tlio war and the sauti'(iocs it had involved fully entitled us t<i de:"mand. Those'inaster-iards- Were wilfully andWantonly; thrown away by Mr. li?.!:durV, succnssors.—"Qaart<irly Review."