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The Official Return Of The Revenue For The First Half

of the financial year, which was issued on Wednesday night, shows that the receipts were some £4,400,000 less than in the corresponding period for 1907. As the remissions of......

The Daily Chronicle Of Tuesday Reports, On What It Says

is indisputable evidence, an extraordinary case of a stoat attack- ing human beings. A young woman was coming out of the gate of Nynehead Vicarage, near Wellington, in......

The Penny Post Between The British Isles And The United

States was established on October 1st. Mr. Sydney Buxton, the Postmaster-General, is to be congratulated upon an excellent piece of work. The cheapening of postal inter- course......

The Book War Between The Times And The Publishers'...

has come to an end. The Times will, it is stated, in future accept books from the publishers on the same terms as the ordinary circulating libraries. This, we take it, means......

The Passenger Steam-yacht Argonaut,' Belonging To The...

which was on a voyage to the Mediterranean, was sunk off Dungeness on Tuesday morning in a fog. There were about a hundred and twenty passengers on board, as well as a hundred......

Mr. Mckenna At Pontypool, Also On Thursday; Declared That...

supremacy of the British Navy was the surest guarantee of European peace. That is, of course, a truism ; but less obvious, though equally sound, was Mr. hicKenna's next remark......

It Was Officially Announced On Tuesday That Lord Tweed-...

had resigned the office of Lord President of the Council for reasons of health. Lord Tweedinouth, who had rendered valuable services to his party as Whip, was appointed First......

Floods Resulting In A Terrible Leas Of Life Have Occurred

at Haidarabad. They were caused by torrential rains which made the Musi River overflow. This river flows through Haidarabad, separating the oily proper from the suburbs, and the......

The Great "national " Demonstration Against The Licensing...

held in Hyde Park last Sunday. Including the pro- vincial contingents, who came up to London in one hundred and seventy special trains, and the crowds who attended the......

Bank Rate, 21,- Per Cent., Changed From 3 Per Cent.

May 28th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 85g—on Friday week 85g.......