Stealing Russian Gold.

A RUSSIAN SENTRY KILLED.

In a" article on lThe Frr-z n North' coutri'-titpd by Philip G'-rshel to tV Melbaonrne Argus, appears the fallow ing account of the killing t f a Russian gentry, in which it is to be h ped the principal acter, ea'd to be a New Zes lMider, is libeled :— Jnst below the horizon and right opposite Nome is the most easterly part of Siberia, East Cape, and the same deposit of geld that bas been found in AUske mist extend tinder the sea to Siberii, tor gold has been found there in Urge quantities ; but you cannot hold placer claims under the same conditions aa in American territory. Yora have to ©omply with ironclad roles and condi tions laid down by the Czar's Govern ment Before you can pnfc a pick into the ground you must show a guarsntee of 100,000 roubles, and give all infor* nation regarding the amount of capital you have to develop the gold lands They don't even lease claims. They Bell |ou "basins," so many miles in area, and if the "basin" turns out bad, and you don't finish working out the whole place^ you forfeit the 100,000 roubles— that is, about £10,800. The FnFsian people may do all they cai to atop private enterprise, but for all that there are three men in Nome at the present time who dug out Russian gold almost under the very noses of the guard at the convict station. No one knew anything about it until it was all over and they had bahked it. It was aa risky a thing as could pos sibly be done, for if they had been caught it would have meant imprison ment for life with the convicts. They shot one of the guards, but that was nothing. What was moat wonderful was that they were working only three miles from the military station, and in broad daylight, and no one saw th^m. Thpy put it down to Sheafe'u watchful ness?. He was a New Zealand man, and led the parfy. Horton and Spen cer were New York men, who had come up early in the spring It was Sheafe who proposed the expedition, i and they hired a small schooner, and sailed over to tha Siberian coast. They landed at the mouth of a small river, and taking the suils off the boat, towed her into a little cove surrounded by cliffs. They worked north, and in one , spot they dug up 77,000 10l worth of gold. But, as Spencer said to me after wards. "It was killing work. We never knew when somebody was going to come along. " They stopped there for a month each taking turns to watco. But one j day, when it was Horton's turn, and Sheafe and Spencer were rocking they heard a shout from the top of the cliff, and looking up, they Baw a soldier j ■waving his hand. i "My Goo ! " said Fpencer, IS it's all: tip. ". "Ib it" replied Sheafe coolly ; "not by a long chalk. . Has he got anyone with him and he waved in return." | Horton from his lookout had Been what bad happened, and did not know what to do, The soldier came climb ing down to th?m wiih his rifle slung on his back. Sheafe noticed that, and ' he hitched bis revolver rounH. "If he only keeps it like that," said fap, "we're right." j <4Bat wecan't kill him," remonstrated ' Fpencer "We'll have to. By God ! d'you think IW going to get collared for the : Bake of a grease-eating Oossach?" Uorton seemed to have thought the same, for he came down revolver in ; hand, Tho soldier stood before them and said something in his own language. Sheafe nodded his head, end said hurriedly. "When I s&y 'now' jump for him. Now?' and they sprang on the man. He foaght and bit, bat it was of no nae, and they bound and gagged him. Said She&fe through his clenched teeth, "It's got to be done," and he pulled out his revolver. "Good God, man! 1' said Spencer, "can't we manage some other way?" "No," and he slowly lifted his pistol while the man's eyes glared with an expression of agonised surprise and entreaty. Fpencer turned his head, and a sharp crack broke the silence. That was all, and they buried him Spencer said to me afterwards that fae winced with the horror of the thing, for he bad never seen a man killed before. Sa<d he, "It seemed somehow so animaMike. It was just like killing a sheep."

Mr Chamberlain's Popularity in the Colonies.

Mr Arthur Sherwell, the joint author with Mr Joseph Rotmtree of the book on ' Temperance Reform and the Social Problem,' has fust returned to the old country from a vist to the Australian Colonies and New Zea land In an interview he stated that a large measure of the credit for the •warm feeling of t!ie Colonies for the Mother Country belongs to Mr Cham beriain. Wherever I went (he says) I found bis popularity was immense. It is dap, I think, not to his personality, but to the policy he has inaugurated and carried out; He is spoken of as ihe first British statesman who has taken the Colonies seriously. He has studied intelligently their point of view and met their wishes whenever it has been possible to do so without en dangering the interests of the Empire. From what I saw and heard I believe the secret of Mr Chamberlain's in fluenca at the Antipodes is due to a conviction on the part of the Colonists that he will look at questions £rom the br,oad standpoint of the Empire, and not from the parochial one of the "United Kingdom alone. Any other statesman who had treated the Colonies in the same spirit would have evoked |»f» same response

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