31 OCTOBER 1903, page 3

Peckham, Of All Places In The World, Has Been The

scene of a political murder. The suburb is a favourite one with Armenians, who there formed some years ago a powerful associa- tion having for its object the liberation of their......

On Wednesday Mr. Chamberlain, Speaking At The Town Hall...

appealed to the Duke of Devonshire to . induce the Free-looders to change their name, and de- nounced as a preposterous doctrine the view—which he attributed to them—that a tax......

It Is Further Proposed That A Definite Date Should Be

fixed when all compensation should cease, that no limit be placed on the amount of reduction, that new licences be debarred from claim to compensation in case of subsequent......

Lord Goschen Has Been Nominated To Fill The Post Of

Chancellor of the University of Oxford vacated by the death of Lord Salisbury, and will to-day be elected without opposi; tion. A post of more picturesque dignity, and fraught......

• An Important Document Bearing On Temperance Reform Was...

last week. This takes the form of a widely signed memorial outlining a policy on the lines of (1) a great reduction in the number of licensed premises; (2) wide ppwers of local......

On Thursday Mr. Ritchie, Who Delivered The Rectorial...

Aberdeen, gave a most useful and impressive account of social progress in the nineteenth century, and dwelt upon the emergence of the individual. Very striking was the passage......

The Inquest On Miss Hickman Is Still Fixed For November

5th, when all the facts known will be produced by witnesses, most of whom will for the first time speak on oath. Till then judgment ought to be suspended; but, according to the......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent.

Consols "(21 per cent.) were on Friday 881.......