18 JULY 1896, page 3

The Correspondents Of The Daily Telegraph Continue To...

telegrams from Rhodesia. Telegraphing on Tuesday, the Bulawayo correspondent declares that the Mafeking road "appears to be closed," that fifteen hundred friendlies have......

At The Annual Meeting Of The British School Of Athens

on Monday Mr. John Morley, who was needlessly apologetic in taking the chair, modestly said that be was not quite so destitute of the right to speak to an assembly of Greek......

Mr. Laurier, The New Canadian Premier, Took Office Last...

A speech made by him at a dinner given to the officers of the North-American Sqr.adron shows how absurdly unfair were the accusations of disloyalty brought against him by his......

On Thursday The Question Of The Indian Troops At Suakin

was debated in the House of Lords, Lord Onslow moving the necessary motion in a sensible and workmanlike speech. Of the ex-Indian Governors in the House, Lord Reay and tc some......

On Wednesday, During The Consideration Of The Finance...

William Harcourt showed his fairness and courage as a politician and his soundness as a financier in a very able speech on the Land-tax. There was, he said, a great deal of......

Lord Rosebery Maintained That The Arguments As To The In-

terest of India in Egypt proved too much, because if carried to its logical conclusion it would burden India with the whole of our Mediterranean charges. It would not be......

On Saturday Afternoon Sir Walter Besant Unveiled A...

in memory of Philip llassinger,—the first of the series of memorial windows to the great dramatic writers of the Elizabethan age to be placed in the nave of the old Priory......

On Tuesday The London County Council Discussed The...

the Establishment Committee to seek Parlia- mentary powers to acquire, at an estimated cost of £813,000, a triangular piece of land in Trafalgar Square and Spring -Gardens, and......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent. New Consols (21) Were On

Friday, 113.I-1. 0......