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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 January 1903, Page 4

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[PSB PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] The Rand Labor Question. Capetown, Janaary 22. At the conference between the Rind mining leaders and Chamberlain a proposal was made by Chamberlain that the Government should import five thousand English navvies on condition that the mines engage a similar number at four shillings per day besides their keep. The Government navvies would go to the railway w ;rka thus releasing natives for employment in the mines. The leaders doubted shareholders’ willingness (o try the experiment. Chamberlain promised to recommend the foreign office to open Uganda and all other British African provinces excepting Nairodi for recruiting natives. Agricultural College. The trustees of Rhodes’ estate, Webber, Beit and Company, and Ab 3 Bailey, the well known Johannesburg millionaire, have provided thirty three thous n.d for the establishment of an agricu'tural college. Special Settlement. In connection with irrigation works at Colesburg about a hundred and forty thousand acres have been acquired i i Orange Colony. The idea is to brin» sixteen thousand underjculuva- ion thereby providing a living for a thousand settlors and families, all profits above five per cent to be devotsd to fie requirements of tho settlers. Lord Mayor of Dublin. London, J in 2 i. The United Irish League has abandoned T. Harrington’s candidature for a third term as Lord Mayor of Dublin. Fremantle Smelting Works. C. Kaufman purchased at auction the Fremantle smelting works for £41,C00. French Politics. Paeis, Jan. 22. Tho report of the committee of the French Chamber on the Estimate Department of Foreign JAffairs, rejoices in France’s abstention from the Venezuelan affairs. It recommends an international understanding for the making ofTangiers a neutral and free port. It adds that owing to the situation in Armenia and Macedonia, the Powers ought to make stronger representation to tho Porte and support the representations with force if necessary. Russian Ambassador. St. Prtebsbubg, Jan. 22. Lishman, the new Russian Minister to Abyssinia, has reached Jibuti!,