15 JUNE 1901, page 3

As The Boer Aspiration In Regard To A United Dutch

South Africa and the expulsion of British influence is still re- garded in many quarters as a myth, it is worth while to draw attention to a passage in one of the letters of Mr.......

We Shall Publish Next Week An Article By Mr. Rudyard

Kipling, entitled "A Village Rifle Club," which will not only interest those of our readers who are believers in rifle clubs, but will, we trust, further the cause that they and......

In Our Last Issue We Gave Publicity To A Circumstantial

account furnished by Reuter's agency of a successful engage- ment fought by Colonel Wilson near Warmbaths. We also quoted the statement, made on the authority of the same......

On Thursday Was Issued Sir David Barbour's Report On The

Finances of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies. He recommends, to begin with, a tax of 10 per cent. on the profits of the mines instead of the .5 per cent. imposed by the......

Applying These Principles In Practice, The Committee Re-...

begin with, that the concession enjoyed by the Netherlands Railway should be cancelled. In regard to the question whether any, and if so what, compensation should be paid to the......

We Have Noticed The Death Of Sir Walter Teaant Else-

where, but must record here the death of Mr. Robert Buchanan (born in Glasgow in 1841) on the next day. Mr. Robert Buchanan, though he never gave his undoubted genius its......

The Gazette De Lausanne, A Paper That Cannot Certainly Be

accused of prejudice in favour of the British, pub- lishes in its issue of June 1st some instructive impres- sions of M. Pache, a Swiss volunteer who served with the Boers. M.......

At The Public Banquet Given To Sir John Tenniel. On

Wednesday, Mr. Balfour, who presided, declared that Sir John Tenniel's chief and almost unique title to ad- miration was that, though a satirist, he had never once lapsed into......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent. New Consols (2d Were On

Friday 94.......