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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume VIII, Issue 2346, 8 September 1908, Page 3

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THETHREATENED LOCK-OUT. : LONDON, September 7. Attempts are being made to avert a lock-out of the .Lancashire cotton operalives. • THE UNEMPLOYED. LONDON, September 7. There are 10,000 unemployed in Birmingham. CONCESSION TO QUEENSLAND, LONDON, September 7. Mr, W. Kidston, Premier of Queenslaud,, has secured a concession in tho inscription of stock, which gives £2400 annually. During his visit hero ho emphasised tho desirability of preference, with tlic viow of increasing inter-Imper-ial trade.

ANTHRACITE WORKERS. LONDON, September 7; Twelve thousand anthracite workors nt Swansea havoitendered notice that they will cease work in order to compel 3000 non-unionists to join tho union.

REVIVAL OP TRADE. LONDON, September 7. The Statist confirms the coming improvement of trade, though it says the improvement will be very gradual, DENUNCIATION OF TOLSTOI. V ST. PETERSBURG, September 7. The Russian newspapers severely censure 'the, Holy Synod's decree against Count Tolstoi, the novelist. ENGLISH HOP CROP. LONDON, September 7. Heavy rains have seiyously damaged the liops. The estimated total acreage in England is'3B,9lG, the smallcst'for nearly a century. . TERRIBLE BUSH.FIRES, NEW YORK, September 7. Firoi in tho pine forests of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Cliisholm, threaten dam»cfl amounting to,a,million and a half dollars. , NAVAL ARMAMENT BERLIN, September 7. ' Herr Glass, in ins presidential address to the Pan-German League at. Berlin, declared that Germany entering iiiti ncircumpnts with Britain in referI'jiep to naval armament, wotii'd bo suicidal

QUICK TRAVELLING. ' ROME,'September 7,

Nhkzhio, in R ( -.Fint car, won the VWm flip. 328' kilns, nt Bologna, rivcrnging 74 miles an hour.

DINIZULU CONVALESCENT.

DURBAN, September 7, ' Dinizuhi lias recovered from his illness.

' TIMBER-STACKERS' STRIKE. " ! MELBOURNE, This Day, The timher-tfackers' strike continues, mid is seriously interfering with timber vessels. . •