Summary of News.
Trades uuionshn in the I'niteil .states has got down to the caskets \i\ which frail humanity is put away. Throe poor labouring women, socking work, were shot by Russian soldiers because they were crossing tho border into Germany. Cape Colony, said to bo tho hungriest of His Majesty's oversea dominions, is to have a record surplus of revenue within a year of the conclusion of tho war. KlTect is being given to the King's command to set free the disloyal in Capo Colony and Natal. In Trinidad, a; Hritish possession, but largely peopled by negroes, a lamentable disturbance has taken place over a bill' dealing with water supply. Victorian railways still hang heavy on the State. Over there tho fundamental principle is that the lines must earn their salt ; in N.Z. a quarter of a million, taken from taxation of peaple who never ccc a locomotive, squares the railway account annually. ' H is well that the modern Mritish soldier is not often culled on to fight hand to hand, for his physique is not overpowering.
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Southland Times, Issue 19004, 25 March 1903, Page 2
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178Summary of News. Southland Times, Issue 19004, 25 March 1903, Page 2
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