30 MAY 1891, page 3

Mr. Justice Richmond, Of New Zealand, Has Written A Very

interesting and able letter to Sir Henry Parkes, against the proposal to establish a Supreme Court of Australasia whose decisions shall not be subject to review by the Judicial......

West London Has Had A Striking Warning Against The Use

-of petroleum-lamps. On Saturday night, Lord Romilly was sitting in the drawing-room of his house in Egerton Gardens, when he accidentally tipped over a table with a......

Lord Monteagle, Who Has A Fairly Impartial Mind, Writes To

the Times to point out that Mr. Balfour's new clause in the Purchase Act giving a preference to small owners will go further than he intended, or than the House supposes. He......

The Chancellor Of The Exchequer Mentioned On Monday That...

artists had been invited to send in designs for the new coinage, and that the Mint Committee would report upon them all. That is probably the best course, and as Sir E. Boehm is......

In The Course Of His Speech, Sir W. Harcourt Took

credit for having spent more on the Army and Navy in one year of his own reigli at the Treasury than any other Government out of the Estimates of the year, to which Mr. Gosohen......

The Curious Case Of "streeter V. Pinter," In Which The

well- known jeweller prosecutes an American for an attempt to cheat him under cover of a promise to manufacture gold, is still under inquiry before Mr. Hannay, the delay being......

Mr. Edison Is Making Still Greater Strides In Invention, In

what is now called the " kinetograph," he manages to throw on a screen in any man's drawing-room, the fac-similea of the actors and their actions in a distant theatre, while ,......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent.

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 951- to 951.......