12 MAY 1906, page 2

On Friday Week, In The House Of Lords, Lord Balfour

of Burleigh did a useful service in raising the question of the cost of administration of the Poplar Union, to which we have already referred in our columns. In Poplar one in......

The Morning Post On Monday Published From Its Shanghai...

a very instructive article on the progress of Army reform in China. He visited recently the Chinese Aldershot, Paoting-fu, where the two best divisions of the Army are......

We May Note That, According To The Report, Twenty-three...

out of the total of twenty-six million barrels produced annually in the United States are controlled bir the Standard Oil Trust, and that the price of illuminating oil is two......

Several Important Events Are Reported From Natal. On...

news came that Mr. H. M. Stainbank, the Magistrate of Mahlabitini, in Northern Zululand, had been murdered while collecting the Hut-tax. The outbreak of trouble in a district a......

On Tuesday The Chief Speaker In The Debate Was Mr.

Lloyd-George. His speech, again, was a fighting speech, and, like Mr. Wyndham's, contributed little to a real settle- ment of the problem at issue. His defence, however, of the......

President Roosevelt Has Sent An Important Message To...

with Mr. Garfield's Report on the Standard Oil Company's methods. After referring to the enormous benefits derived by the Company from secret rates—most of them clearly......

The Efforts Of The German Press To Attach Serious Political

importance to the visit of the Kaiser to Vienna meet with no support in the Austrian capital. While, however, Vienna is coldly polite, the Hungarian official journals adopt an......

The Second Reading Debate On The Education Bill Opened In

the Commons on Monday with a strong party speech from Mr. Wyndham. The first part of the Bill he denounced as a violation of the principle of religious equality. The State ought......