MINING.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13440, 11 June 1912, Page 6

MINING.

PAOTOLUS RETURNS

[United Press Association.]

Reef ton, June 10. ■' The Pactolus dredged.34oz 13d•-vts for 127 hours' work.

Mr. W. T. Stead counted among the most trying experiences of la's life an interview he had with King Leopold of Belgium at the time when Gordon was shut up in Khartoum. He went to Brussels,' and obtained a special interview with the King in order to pronose that ho should move on behalf of Gordon and claim the Soudan as his reward. Leopold answered that he would not accept the Soudan if it were "offered him on a silver salver," but Mr. Stead urged his point, and they debated the matter in strenuous fashion for over an hour. "He was exceedingly angry," said Mr. Stead, "and raged and fumed in such a fashion that I felt more than once it would ■ have given him great satisfaction to have drawn his sword and thrust it through the vitals of his

English visitor. . . .It was a trying ordeal for me. I was glad to learn after that Leopold also felt the strain." Meeting M. de Laveleye (who had introduced Mr. Stead) some months afterwards at Spa, tho King referred to tho interview1. "Stead!" ho exclaimed. "It was horribie I How that man made me sweat!"