10 SEPTEMBER 1898, page 3

It Is With A Sense Of Deep Regret That We

record the appointment of Sir Graham Bower as Colonial Secretary to the Mauritius. We do not wish to be too hard upon Sir Graham Bower, but it will be remembered that the South......

In The Times Of Tuesday A Letter Is Published, Written

by Cardinal Vaughan, denying in explicit terms the possibility of any Jesuit, or indeed any Roman Catholic, being permitted to act as a clergyman in the English Church in order......

The Cape Elections Seem, After All, Not To Have Been

so favourable to the Bond as was first supposed, owing to an unexpected Progressive victory at Uitenhage. The present state of parties Is: Bond, 40; Progressives, 37. Vryburg......

A Notable And Welcome Achievement In The Transport Of Fruit

is recorded this week,—the arrival by the ' Austral ' of a cargo of Australian oranges in perfect condition. Hitherto the popularity of the orange, one of the most delicious as......

Lord Dufferin Delivered A Charming Address At Bath On Mon.

day, his subject being his great-grandfather Sheridan, whose name is imperishably connected with that city. After illustra- ting Sheridan's pecnlar debt to Bath, where he "found......

Sir William Crookes's Presidential Address At The Meeting...

British Association recalls the sensational predictions of the late Professor Jevons in his famous pamphlet on the coal question in 1865. As Jevons predicted a great world......

The Concluding Passages Of The Address Were Remarkable...

President's review of his thirty years' experiments in the domain of psychical research. Sir William Crookes—who, be it noted, is also President of the Society of Psychical......

Bank Rate, 2i Per Cent.

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 110/1g.......