20 MAY 1922, page 3

In The House Of Commons On Monday The Solicitor-general, Sir

Leslie Scott, moved the second reading of the Law of Real Property Bill, which had come from the Lords. The subject of the Bill is so amazingly complicated that several speakers......

We Are Much Interested To Read The Announcement That Dr.

Arthur Shadwell, the well-known writer on industrial and economic subjects, has become editor of the Democrat. Several times we have referred to what seemed to us excellently......

The Court Of Criminal Appeal On Monday Dismissed The Appeal

of Herbert Rowse Armstrong, of Hay, against the sentence of death passed upoehim for poisoning his wife. The appeal was based upon the plea that Mr. Justice Darling should not......

The Opponents Of The Bill, Led By A Labour Member,

Mr. Walsh, argued that it would be a breach of faith to make the teachers contribute towards their pensions, though other public servants have to do so. It was maintained that......

The Employers, It Must Be Said, Have Gained Public Sympathy

in so far as their specific allegations against the Amalgamated Engineering Union have not been answered. They gave definite cases in which the union carried its prohibition of......

The Government Were Defeated In The House Of Commons On

Tuesday, when Mr. Fisher moved the second reading of the School Teachers' Superannuation Bill, requiring teachers to contribute 5 per cent. of their salaries to the pension fund......

We Regret The Departure Of All These Things Deeply For

senti- mental reasons, but they leave the law for the law's good. Business is business, and we shall get on better without them. In future there will be only two systems of land......

This Is Done Not By Making All The Law As

to personal property apply to real property but by selecting from each system the best characteristics. For the first time in English history women will be placed on a footing......

Sir William Maokenzie's Inquiry Into The Engineering...

first apparently fruitless, has had the effect of inducing the parties to meet once again and try to compose their differ- ences. The Amalgamated Engineering Union . agreed to......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent., Changed From 4 Per Cent.

Apr. 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 991; Thursday week, 99} ; a year ago, 83.......