Summary of News
What has been foretold has come to pass. The N.S.W. miners ask the coalowners to confer with them with the ob* ject of getting an advance on the hewing rato fixed by the Arbitration Court. Tho masters say : " No. It is the award of your own court, and you must abido by it." Something definite is expected from a meeting of Russian magnates, who reported to tho Czar yesterday. " Who hath friends ?" The Japs, aro getting a loan " flying." The interest ia good ; term short and minimum low, but, even so, Russia could not get money on the terms. Viscount Goschen, if not convincing, is at least a reasonable critic of the fiscal question. A Sydney bank is still in the deep waters oi the boom deluge. Sc»:ne folks in Johannesburg aro alarmed because the Imperial Parliament will discuss the Chinese labour measure bofore it becomes law. Mr Seddon is on the tapis on the samo I subject. Lord Northcoto brought a nice message from King Edward to the Australians. Of two afflictions he chose tho lesser : be did not shake hands at his first levee. More N.S.W. colliers decline to work. A Transvaal gold bug's responsibilities became too much for his brain Some German ladies have had a tragic ending to a kitchen party ; five being poisoned by unsound tinned beans.
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Southland Times, Issue 19264, 30 January 1904, Page 2
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