3 FEBRUARY 1900, page 3

A Vast Scheme Of Naval And Colonial Defence Has Been

laid before the French Cabinet. The sum asked for is a milliard of francs (010,000,000), which the Minister of Finance, M. Caillaux, proposes to raise out of ordinary resources......

Details As To The Operations Which Culminated In The Night

attack on Spion Kop show that after five days' fighting the principal points of the ridge known as Mount Taba Myama were occupied on the night of Tuesday, January 23rd, the......

The Recent South African Blue-book Contains A Statement...

the Molten interview which we trust will put an end for ever to that controversy. As, however, we have dealt strongly with the matter, we will give, not our own verdict in the......

Count Ballestrem, President Of The German Reichstag,...

eulogy of the Emperor at a dinner held last Saturday to celebrate the Emperor's forty-first birthday. He specially praised the Emperor's habit of in- variably adopting a......

The Hon. Charles Parsons Read A Most Interesting Paper...

the Royal Institution on Friday week on steam turbines. which, as adapted by him for marine propulsion, seem destined to revolutionise naval construction and sea- borne traffic.......

M. De Blowitz Gives In Monday's Times A Long Account

of a conversation with an open-minded Frenchman who divides his time between Paris and London, and who, as the result of an exhaustive peregrination through all quarters of......

According To The Official Return Published Last Week, No...

than three and a half million natives are already employed on Government famine relief works in India. The magnitude of the calamity by which India is threatened, and its......

In The Standard Of Tuesday, January 30th, Appears The...

:— " atcLICIILA.N.—On Christmas Day, shot, in the Market Square, Harrismith, Orange Free State, South Africa, for refining to light against his own countrymen, John McLachlan,......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent.

New Consols (21) were on Friday 1001.......