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Later In The Evening An Attempt Was Made To Let

in the paupers, and to allow the Pensions Committees to supple- ment out-relief given by the Guardians so as to bring up the incomes of persons over seventy in receipt of......

The Birthday Honours, Which Were Announced On Friday...

not of a very sensational kind. There are four new Peers, Sir Antony MacDonnell, Mr. George Whiteley, Sir Angus Holden, and Mr. John Wynford Philipps, the eldest of the three......

The Civilians, Soldiers, And Sailors Who Are Deemed...

the accolade in one form or another number between thirty and forty. Of these we can only say with Emerson : "In the press of knights not every brow can receive the laurel"—of......

The Net Result Of The Government Concessions Up To Date

is to add certainly half-a-million to the cost of their scheme, and probably a great deal more. Last week the estimated sum under the scheme had come to be admitted by the......

On Wednesday A Still Greater And More Important Sur- Render

was made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but a surrender so contrived as to cause the maximum of discredit to the Administration. Mr. Barnes, the Labour Member, made a......

Mr. Grover Cleveland, Who Had Held The Presidency Of The

United States from 1885 to 1889, and again from 1893 to 1897, died at Princeton, New Jersey, on Wednesday, in his seventy- second year. Mr. Cleveland, who was the son of a poor......

The Committee Stage Of The Old-age Pensions Bill Has...

the House of Commons throughout the week, with the result that the Government have been forced, as we felt sure would be the case, to make concession after concession increasing......