M. Combes, Premier, has advised the miners to accept arbitration, and he interviews the employers on the subject. _ . >.. Work has been resumed at Calais and Dunkirk. Ball cartridge was issued to the 4000 troops maintaining order and freedom of labor at Dunkirk.
BELGIAN OLD AGE PENSIONS. • Brussels, October 26. Owing to the great number of ap plications for old age pensions in Belgium, which have been fixed at sixty-five francs each, the calculations of the Government have been upset. Instead of laborers, as expected, the applicants include retired tradesmen and small property owners. The Government has dissolved local com mittees because of the claims admit ted, and has appointed a central committee to reduce the lists.
SOOTH AFRICA.
Capetown, October 26.
