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We Regret To Record The Death Of Sir William Osler,

the eminent Canadian physician who had been Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford since 1905. He was a great man as well as a great physician, and his popularity and personal......

America Owes Much To The Fact That Her Rich Men

believe in education. Mr. Rockefeller's Christmas gift of a hundred million dollars is the largest of its kind, but it is typical and in ne way exceptional. Mr. Rockefeller has......

Lord Midleton, Who Receives A Double Step In The United

Kingdom Peerage, was Secretary for War for two years in Mr. Belfries Goireilenent, and was also Secretary for Ireland for three years. He was, of course, leader of the Southern......

Sir Horace Plunkett Died In America On Wednesday. He Was

sixty-five years of age. While his recent advocacy of "Dominion Home Rule " and his coquetting with Sinn Fein had distressed most of his old friends, his political eccentricity......

As We Write On Thursday It Is Announced That The

Engineering Employers' Federation is to confer with the three Iron-Moulders' Unions which have been on strike since September. The Parlia- mentary Committee of the Trade Union......

The First List Of New Year Honours Was Published On

Thursday. Lord Midleton, who was a Viscount in the Irish Peerage and a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, becomes an Earl. There are • three new Berens, Sir Bertrand......

The Text-has Been Issued Of The Govern/nen-fa...

Some classes of workers, notably agricultural labourers, are excluded from the Bill, but even so nearly twelve millions of workers will be dealt with. The Bill, of course, is......

At The By-election In Bromley, Kent, Colonel James, The...

Unionist candidate, was returned by a majority of 1,071 over the Labour candidate, Mr. Hodes. Last December Mr. H. W. Forster polled 16,840 votes for the Coalition against the......

We Have Also To Record The Death Of Dr. George

Smith at the age of eighty-six. He went to India before the Mutiny to take a professorship, and afterwards joined Mr. Meredith Townsend, the late co-editor of the Spectator, in......

Under The New Bill The Weekly Benefit For Men Will

be 15s., but the contribution from both workers and employers will be 3d. per week instead of 21d. For women the benefit will be 12s. and the contribution 2.1(1. The Government......

After A Long Straggle Women Have Won Admission To The

Bar. The Sex Disqualification Removal Bill received the Royal Assent last week, and on Monday two women entered as students at the ancient Inns, one at the Middle Temple and one......

Bank Rate, 6 Per Cent.,changed From 5 Per Cent. Nov.

6, 1919.......