29 DECEMBER 1906, page 3

We Regret To Announce The Death Of Principal Rainy Last

Saturday at Melbourne, and of Professor F. W. Maitland, of Cambridge, on Friday week at Grand Canary, to which be had gone for his health. We have dealt elsewhere with the......

Sir Howard Vincent Deserves The Congratulations Of The...

the passing into law of the Public Trustee Act,—a piece of legislation which he has lost no opportunity of pressing on the attention of succeeding Parliaments. As Sir Howard......

The Times Published On Wednesday Its Annual Review Of The

pauperism of the Metropolis. From this it appears that the legal poor of London at this moment number over 123,000, or at the rate of twenty-six per thousand of the population,......

The Petit Parisien Has Been Conducting A Plebiscite On The

question of the relative importance of the great French- men of the past century. Over fifteen million votes were recorded, and the result may be taken to represent average......

The Report Of The Departmental Committee On Small...

issued on Monday. The main reoommenda- Lion is that existing machinery for the provision of small holdings should be supplemented and assisted by the direct intervention of a......

The Report Of The Housing Committee, Issued On Friday Week,

takes a serious view of the situation. The Report . attributes the undoubted house famine to the negligence of Rural Councils in administering the law; to bad landlords, some of......

The Prevention Of Corruption Bill, Which Comes Into...

the New Year, will, we hope, work a salutary reform in commercial life. It makes it a criminal offence for any agent corruptly to accept, or for any person corruptly to give,......

Bank Este, 6 Per Cent., Changed From 5 Per Cent.

Oct. 19th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 86—on Friday week 85i.......