26 JUNE 1909, page 19

Mr. Deakin, Who Outlined His Programme At The First Sitting

of the Federal Parliament since the recent change in the Ministry, spoke in detail of the proposals relating to Imperial defence. Colonel Foxton, who represents the Commonwealth......

We Are Very Glad To Record Two Examples Of Admirable

voluntary enterprise with the object of making good the admitted arrears of our national defence in aerial navigation. Th e Morning Post has opened a subscription for offering......

Mr. Balfour Made An Admirable Speech At The Darwin Centenary

dinner at Cambridge on Wednesday. After dwelling on the splendour of Darwin's achievements, which had now become part of the common intellectual heritage of every man of......

The Birthday Honours Announced On Friday Morning Cannot...

as particularly interesting. No Peers are created, 'but there are five new Privy Councillors,—Mr. Merriman, the Premier of Cape Colony, Mr. C. H. Hobhouse, Sir Hudson E.......

At The Meeting Of The London County Council On Tuesday

some very striking figures were given as to the value of work done by the unemployed,—figures which amply prove the truth of a remark which we have made again and again in the......

Last Saturday Night A Collision Took Place In A Fog

off D ungeness between the second-class cruiser Sappho,' attached to the Home Fleet, and the Wilson Line steamer Sappho,' of The liner struck the cruiser in a vulnerable part......

Last Saturday Afternoon At Windsor The King Presented A...

and eight units of the Territorial Army with colours. At half-past three the Royal Standard was broken from the flagstaff above the saluting base, and the King, accompanied by......

Lord George Hamilton, Addressing The Students Of The Roy...

College, Eltham, on Thursday, referred to the increase in the armaments of different nations, but declared that what he cared about most was not the number of guns, bet the......

Beak Rate, 2i Per Neut., Changed From 3 Per Tent.

April loci Consols (2k) were on Friday 841---Friany week 841.......