LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 8 May 1901, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

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French Colliery Strike

Paris, May (5

After Tasting three months the strike in the Montceanles mines, collieries, has collapsed. The Ministerial Crisis. Berlin, May 7. In the Prussian crisis Baron Rheira of Baden succeeds Von Miguel.

The Crisis in China. London, May 7,

During a fracas amongst European soldiers at Taku, a German soldier shot dead a Russian Naval Lieut, who attacked him with a dagger. The Coal Tax. London, May 7. In the House of Commons the Coal Tax was carried by 333 votes to 227. Many miners are opposed to a general strike against the tax. A conference of miners’ representatives decides to-day.

The French Trans-Atlantic Steamship Coy. has ordered 120,000 tons of Welsh coal and undertaking to bear the tax.

London, May 7,

Thomas Burt,, M.P. for Morpot, presiding at a conference of minors’ representatives to discuss the proposed general strike against the coal tax, counselled caution.

The reprerentatives of the Welsh miners expressed a reluctance to precipitate a crisis, and appeared anxious to await the result of the election of a member for Monmouth District, in place of E. R. Harris, recently unseated. Nihilism.

Nihilism documents show that Paris and London are the centres of conspiracy and discloses the fact that workmen at the Putiloff iron works near St Petersburg secretoly made a hundred daggers, and numerous revolvers, which were concealed amongst the goods, and ware smuggled into St Petersburg. Obituary. J, M. Bruce, chairman of the firm of Peterson, Laing and Bruce, of Melbourne, aged 61. He died unexpectedly of liver complication and diabetes.