29 AUGUST 1896, page 3

The Country Is Delighted Because The Post Office Report,...

issued, shows that over 3,030,000,000 postal packages were dealt with within the year. This is an average of seventy-seven to each person. There is an increase under every head......

The Rev. Arthur Robins, Chaplain - In - Ordinary To

the Queen, and chaplain to the Prince of Wales and to the household troops, preached on Sunday last his five-thousandth sermon in Windsor ; and his parishioners, in celebration......

There Has Been Much Correspondence During The Last...

to the language used by Sir Jacobus de Wet in the exhortations which he addressed to the Johannesburgere when persuading them to surrender unconditionally to the authorities of......

Four Of The Irish Convicts Who Were Found Guilty Of

preparing dynamite for use in the conspiracy against the British Government, have been set at liberty on the ground of ill-health, and one of them, Whitehead, and perhaps also......

The Times Of Wednesday Published An Interesting State....

the new capital created in the first six months of the present year in the shape of Home, Colonial, or Foreign Issues offered by tender or by auction. It appears that the new......

The Hackney Guardians Have Tried An Interesting Expert....

lately sent fifty able-bodied paupers to General Booth's Farm Colony at Hadleigh, in order to see if they could be turned by the Salvation Army's methods into useful citizens.......

The Cambrian Daily Leader, Quoted By The Westminster...

week, tells a remarkable story of "dreams that came true" in connection with the Hendreforgan colliery explo- sion at Gwys. William Walters, one of the colliers, dreamed that he......

Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent..

New Consols (2f) were on Friday, 112 I,—......