17 DECEMBER 1898, page 3

Lord Wolseley, Speaking On Wednesday At The Annual Prize...

of a Volunteer regiment (2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers), laid great stress upon the importance of good shooting. The fire of our soldiers in the recent Frontier War in India had......

Mr. William Black, The Popular Novelist, Died At Brighton At

Saturday, at the age of fifty-seven. He came to ondon from Glasgow as a young man, did useful work on the daily Press, and actually served as a war corre- spondent in the......

Canon Ainger, Who Lectured On Burns At Toynbee Hall Last

Saturday, owned to a " missionary " motive in his choice of a subject, declaring, and probably rightly, that Burns was still little more than a name to hundreds, even of those......

Sir E. Monson Has Evidently Been Told That His Speech

to he British Chamber of Commerce in Paris was ill-advised, or on Monday he delivered another at the Young Men's 3hristian Association, in which he carefully disclaimed all un-......

Mr. Courtney Delivered A Very Interesting Speech At The...

Society on Tuesday last, in which he dealt with the development of the Congo State, and the lessons it taught to commercial expansion. " The real peril of our com- mercial......

A Correspondent Of The Westminster Gazette Quotes In...

the exact words used by Cobden when he poke of spending £100,000,000 on the Navy. The passage ecnrs in Cobden's speech at Rochdale on June 26th, 1861 :— I have said it in the......

Semi-official Statements Have Been Put Forward Both In ,...

Berlin repudiating the idea that a rapprocheme n t between France and Germany is at present possible. T he French Government contents itself with a simple den i al o ugh the......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent.

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 1101.......