BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 6, 8 January 1908, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[press .association,] THE MINERS' DAY. PARIS, Jan. 7. The French companies have virtually conceded the miners an immediate eight hours' day-, iiitsead of waiting until 1910. , ' , :, AT LAST. ■ ',;■ ' ■':; PEKIN, Jan. 7. The Viceroy of; Canton has agreed to pay £8500 to settle'"British claims; for the attack on. tile' steamer,Sai-' nam and tihe murder of a missionary on "15th July, 1906: ; FOR THE NEXT PANIC. ;.;■ NEW YORK, Jan. 7. Mr Neßon W:- Alarid, GMraan of the Committee of Finance, has introduced into the United States Senate a Bill ik> provide for the issue of 250,000,000 dollars emergency cur-, rency in the form of national banknotes, taxable as high as six per cent, | and withdrawable when the emergency has ended. ] BORROWED PICTURES. LONDON, Jan. 7.. Mr Joshua Lake, of Melbourne, j wTio has arranged for the loan of the Art Exhibition for Australia, has j sailed with 400 paintings, occupying j '600 feet of line-space, by 218 artists, j including the presidents of the Royal Academy and eight Royal Societies and many other well-known painters; also 400 miniatures and etchings and miscellaneous works, of a total value of £50,000; also 20 loan pictures of ■a value of £8000, representing, leading artists. , ■