BONUS FOR MINERS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12537, 7 May 1915, Page 4

BONUS FOR MINERS.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

Pft> Ppp.ss Association. Received May 7, at 1.5 p.m. London, May G

The Premier informed the Miners' Federation that they had made out a prima, facie 'case for an advance of wages. Unless the existing committee determined the amount of work per week the Government would .select- an umpire to decide.

ill- Lloycl George, in th-e.i House of Commons, said he had met the reprcsntatives of the spirit and wine trades, including the Australian, and hoped that -a definite .arrangement would be arrived at by Friday. Sir E. Grey stared that he was unofficially informed that nine British officers wore at Cologne ill solitary con - finement. They denied that they had decent sanitary conditions in their cells, and their only ventilation was from a window high in the wall. Lord Crewe, in the House of Lords, sail that India sowed four million: acres of wher.t in excess of the previous year, and hoped for an exportable surplus of at least two million tons, or sufficient to prevent anything like a. panic in Britain.