CABLE NEWS.
[By' Electric- Telegraph — Copyright,] (Per Press Association) TROUBLE IN THE COAL TRADE. Sydney, February 16, Trouble is looming in the coal jfcradsat Newcastle. The miners are seeking to have the selling price raisecT'-wifJi?a corresponding increase in the liewing rate. There are mutterings about a general strike. : % FREETRADE IN AUSTRALIA.
A conference of Australian freetraders held here has decided to form a freetrade association, its prime object being to secure the return of freetraders to the Federal Parliament.
RAISING THE WIND. Melbourne, February 16. The Government will issue twenty thousand twopenny war stamps and forty . thousaTna penny stamps, to be disposed - 4 of at <#; and Is each, the procpeds to bp I- -■"e... vtrl(?- A c I auiotJc Fv^-d. ' .•
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6625, 17 February 1900, Page 3
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120CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6625, 17 February 1900, Page 3
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