12 MARCH 1904, page 2

In This Context We Are Glad To Give Publicity To

the admirable memorandum of the Bishop of Mashonaland. The Bishop states that personally he is of the opinion that "if the mines of Johannesburg were given a longer lease, and......

The Chinese Labour Question Was Again Raised In The House

of Lords on Friday week. In the course of the debate Lord LansdowL frankly admitted that the introduction of the Chinese was a regrettable necessity, that they were not re-......

The Belgian People Care, Or Seem To Care, Nothing About

the cruelties now officially described as occurring within the Congo Free State, but they show symptoms of strong annoy- ance at their King's conduct towards his daughters. The......

During The Week It Has Been Very Generally Believed That

the Cabinet has been passing through a condition of cryptic crisis owing to the refusal of Mr. Brodrick to endure without protest the slight he considers to have been placed......

The New Cape Parliament Was Opened On Friday, March 4th,

and the Redistribution Bill was read the first time. It pro- vides for three additional seats in the Legislative Council and twelve in the House of Assembly, a reform which, in......

On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, And Thursday The Army...

before the House of Commons. Unfortu- nately, we cannot deal here with the immense mass of details discussed, but we may say generally that we believe Mr. Arnold-Forster to be a......

M. Combes Has Taken Another Stride Towards The...

monastic Orders in France. He has brought in a Bill sup- pressing all their schools, and prohibiting all monks and nuns from teaching, except in private. Substitutes for the......

' The Latent Hostility Between The White And Black Races

in the Southern States seems to grow greater, instead of de- creasing, with the gradual education of the negro. The whites are savage in repressing negro crime, and the blacks......