18 MARCH 1911, page 3

After A Trial Lasting Nine Days, Stinie Morrison Was Con-

victed on Wednesday of the murder of Um:. Beron and sentenced to death. The evidence for the prosecution showed that Morrison, a journeyman baker out of employment, was......

On February 8th Last The Foreign Office Issued An Important

paper containing reports from His Majesty's representatives in America and Switzerland respecting the Referendum. Both reports show that the principle of the Poll of the People......

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There Seems To Be A Prospect Of A Considerable Surplus

upon the Budget estimate for the current financial year. Acoording to Wednesday's Daily Mail, the revenue during the previous eleven days had been slightly over eleven millions.......

We Notice With Satisfaction That Sir Henry Kimber Will On

Monday introduce his Bill to provide for the better repre- sentation of the people and the redistribution of seats in the House of Commons—i.e., One Vote, One Value. Sir Henry......

In Connection With The Children's Coronation Fête At The...

Palace, Professor Albert Visetti makes an excellent suggestion in Monday's Times. Such a gathering, he notes, " offers a musical possibility beyond the wildest dreams of the......

We Cannot Set Forth In Detail The Speech Made By

Mr. McKenna in opening the debate. We may note, however, his re- mark that comparison between German and British estimates, if made in money, is fallacious. Germany's estimates......

In This Context We May Note That Mr. Cave Has

given notice of an amendment to Clause 2 of the Veto Bill, under which a Poll of the People is to be made obligatory on Bills embodying important constitutional changes. By his......

Mr. Balfour, In That Part Of His Speech Which Dealt

with the state of the Navy, insisted on the special point raised by Mr. Arthur Lee—namely, that the spring of 1914 would be the critical period. According to Mr. Lee we shall......

The Conflict Of Evidence Is Most Perplexing. It Turns, Of

course, in a great measure upon the very delicate and difficult question whether we ought or ought not to count not only the Austrian but also the Italian Dreadnoughts' as......