NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE miners, in spite of the withdrawal of support by the two other members of the Triple Alliance, are persisting in their strike. This is a very grave fact, fraught with fearful consequences for the country, and we wish we could say that the miners displayed any sufficient sense of the blows they are dealing at the industries of the country and of couise at their own interests. Nevertheless, when we write on Thursday, there are some hopes of a settlement. The owners have modified and improved their proposals, and after the ability and good sense at a critical moment which Mr. Hodges showed last week, we are surely justified in hoping that he will be able to apply the same qualities to the general interests of the nation as well as to the particular concerns of the miners. The two sides are not so far apart as they were. Everything turns now upon the tremendously complicated question of a pool. Obviously, this needs immediate discussion at close quarters. The owners and the miners cught now to be sitting at the same table.
