28 JANUARY 1888, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE NEXT CENTENARY OF AUSTRALIA. I T is a little absurd, perhaps even a little impudent, to talk of "the centenary of Australia," when the island- continent must have had a......

Mr. Goschen At Hastings.

W HEN one of Mr. Goschen's few unruly auditors at Hastings cried out on Monday night, during that portion of his speech in which he was defending himself for not resigning on......