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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 31 May 1901, Page 3

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iy [PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] International Miner’s Congress. Deceived this day at 9 39 a.m. London, May 30. The International Miner’s Congress unanimously approved of State ■ Pensions to the’nged and poor, and others unable to work at the specified ago to bo comparative. The Congress approved of principle of Old Age State Pensions to every citizen male or female. The Coronation Oath. The Church Defence Association have ■ received several hundred resolutions carried at meetings protesting against any alteration in the Coronation Oath. Russia after Naval Stations. Deceived this day at 9 10 a m. St. Peterseurg, May 30. Admiral Birileff, commanding the Dus-sian-Medittcranean Squadron, is visiting Ferdinand in Bulgaria. It is suspected that ho is trying to arrange for a Dussian Naval Station at Varna. German and French Soldiers. Deceived this day at 9.39 a.m.

Berlin, May 30. General Bounal, of the French service was present at a review outside Berlin. He afterwards rode at the head of tho Prussian Brigade through tho capital. Tho Kaiser paid him striking attentions, and called for cheers for the French army, who, ho said, wero brothers in arms in China with tho Germans. Great Motor Race. Paris, May 30. The winner of the Patis-Bordeaux motor race covered 345 miles in 524 minutes, averaging between towns 45 miles an hour.

Russian Advantages. Vienna, May 30. Vienna newspapers complain that the Chinese problem is still unsolved. The reactionary Mandarins arc unpunished. Of all the Powers that intervened Russia alone has derived advantage. Conscription in Finland. St Petersburg, May 30, Count Kuropatkin, the Russian Minister of War, has submitted to his colleagues a scheme for compulsory military service in Finland. Ministers to a largo extent rejected the proposal.