15 OCTOBER 1904, page 3

Mr. Asquith Has Made Three Excellent Speeches To His Fife-

shire constituents since our last issue. Speaking at Lady- bank on Saturday on the Fiscal question, Mr. Asquith ironically congratulated Mr. Balfour on having so long and......

We Regret To Record That On Thursday Evening The Duke

of Connaught met with a somewhat grave motor-car accident while driving in the outskirts of Edinburgh, his motor-car dashing into a heavily laden cart. The Duke, who was thrown......

It Seems Certain That The Lamentable Tendency To Refuse...

to the middle-aged increases both in America and England. The Carnegie steelworks have recently fixed thirty-five as the latest age of admission in some departments, and forty......

A Good Deal Of Comment Has Been Caused By A

statement made by Mr. Hewins, secretary of the Tariff Reform League, in a speech at Cardiff on Tuesday night. Mr. Hewins said, in answer to an interruption by one of the......

We Have Been Asked To Draw Public Attention To The

Continuation Schools Bill, which was brought forward, though not passed, in the House of Lords last Session by the Bishop of Hereford, in order to obtain active support for the......

Turning To The Scottish Church Difficulty, Mr. Asquith...

the problem might be solved by agreement between the parties, or if that were impossible, by arbitration. Parliamen- tary sanction would have to be invoked in any case, but he......

After The Directors Had Been Duly Re-elected, An...

meeting was held to consider a resolution for the increase of the capital to 26,000,000 by the creation of 1,000,000 new shares at 21 each. The president explained that, after......

Our Hope That The Conservative Electors Of Thanet Would...

Mr. H. Marks has proved altogether unfounded. He was returned on Friday, the 7th inst., by a majority of 382, and though that is smaller by more than 600 than the majority for......

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