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Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3558, 3 May 1901, Page 2

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EBITISH & FOREIGN^ 1 Utated Press Association—Per Elecfcriaa- ; Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.27 a.m., May 2nd I THE COAL TAX. ■ LONDON, May 1.; ' Tlfa Miners' Federation favours a general,.' strike if the coal tax is approved .byUthe c British Parliament, i Received 11 a.m., May 2nd., i ENGLAND ANDRUSSIA. .. :• The French Press asserts that the.Bri-; tisb fortification of Basidu, on Kishu Island, in the Persian Gulf, is interpreted:', asisa reply to Franco-Russian schemes in Pefesia.. Received 9.29 a.m., May 2nd. 1 Mr Pierpont Morgan having purchased;, 1,290,000 ordinary £1 shares for £1,760,000,' , now controls Leyland's Boston and 1 LitOr- ■ po<£ "trade; Mr J. R. Ellerman.-chajr:man , of.directors of Leyland's, controls the Li- . verpool-Mediterranean and Antwerp-Mo**-. • treal trade. THE LEG-BEFORE RULE. : Hi© cricketers—Hawlce, Lucas, Mason, . (Wren, Warner and Jephsori*-havevissuedb! manifesto which declares that, if the prp-.. posed leg-before rule is adopted it , will ' iacourage blind slogging, and ruin club 'i local cricket. Graceisays- : alteration will benefit first-class cricket by lessening the draws, but harm club crickets, trliare nmpiring is doubt fed.-r 1 In the absence of a two-thirds' majority, the' SEarylebone Cricket Club rejected the proposed amendment &t- regard; jßefoce; 259 members supported tlio.qluuigej •ancE 188 opposed. i Received 12.14 a.m., May 3rd., j PERIOD OF MOURNING. I Kb Royal levees or' drawing rooms, a V9» .tta He hefd during current year. I THE BUTH; ESTATE. • j T&e late Marquis: of, Bute's • esfciitftf is*- - i-waTued at £5,000,000. i A WRIT !AGADfST -A RAILWAY: . COMPANY. | Mr Ritchie lias issued ;; a writ for, jagainst the liOndoß.and North j Railway for evadiag. the' .worknien'«\llv».uK* | iitg clause. GERMAN Ci3AMNG STATION: ! Germany; is trying to acquire -Apcoaftng | station at /"Marg-.tfita- .Island, Vene»»ell>. ' "MEMORIAL FUNDr The Qrtaen Yfctorja- Memorial,'Fum? in Calcutta 'has rupees^