LATEST CABLE NEWS.
[by electric telegraph.—copyright]
[per press association.] The Bubonic Plague.
London, May 30.
200 fresh plague cases were reported at Hong Kong for the week ended 25th inst and 187 deaths for the same period.
Concerning the Moon.
Professor Pickering, of Harvard University, during the recent eclipse from the observation station at Jamaica photographed snow on the moon. Chamberlain and Old Age Pensions.
Mr Chamberlain in a speech to the Independent Oddfellows at Birmingham, invited the Friendly Societies to present to Parliament a scheme on the basis of state aid only to the poor aged who made provision for themselves through such societies, and said that the universal age of pension is absolutely impracticable, as it would entail a State expenditure of 35 millions yearly and would discourage thrift.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 31 May 1901, Page 4
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131LATEST CABLE NEWS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 31 May 1901, Page 4
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