22 JULY 1899, page 3

Dr. Karl Peters Reports In The Times Of The 17th

inst. that he has discovered some very ancient ruins in a valley through which runs a southern branch of the Zambesi. They are near the great mountain of Furs, in Portuguese......

• It Is With Great Regret That We Record The

death of the Bishop of Limerick, which took place in Dublin on Monday. The Bishop was in his eighty-seventh year. Dr. Graves, besides being a wise and liberal-minded Bishop, and......

Mary Ansell, A Domestic Servant Of Twenty-two, Was...

St. Albans on Wednesday. She had committed a pecu- liarly cruel murder. Her sister had gone mad in conse- quence of a bereavement, and had been placed under restraint. Mary......

• Nothing Is More Common Than For Englishmen Travelling In

Italy to ask what the tourist harvest is worth to the country which is, above all others, the land of the "sight-seer?' The Pall Mall Gazette of Tuesday tells us that the "......

The Mobilisation Of The Huge Fleet Which Is To Carry

out this year's naval manceuvres has been a great success, the neces- sary work having been done quickly and well. The plan of operations is a very interesting one. We are......

Sir Wilfred Laurier Has Given Notice That He Will Move

an Address to the Queen praying that the Imperial Government may amend the British North America Act (i.e., the Canadian Constitution), so that when the Canadian House of......

The Government Of India Is Disposed To Employ Electricity As

its motive power in the great central factories which it intends to set up at Jubbulpore. Its advisers believe that the falls of the Nerbudda, and by and by of the Godavery, the......

Mr. Balfour's Reply Was Short, But Marked By A Good

deal of feeling. He was indignant, and we think justly indignant, at Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's attempt to represent the Bill as nothing but "a simple political bonus given......

Bank Rate, 3i Per Cent. New Consols (21) Were On

Friday 107+.......