5 APRIL 1913, page 3

The Naval Correspondent Of The Pall Mall Gazelle Has Some

interesting comments in Monday's issue on the report of the Custance Committee. The report, it is understood, is sub- stantially favourable to the system of education pursued at......

On Wednesday Mr. Falconer And Mr. Booth Made State- Ments

in regard to this letter, but those statements, though they sought to justify the action of the two members, did not contain a denial of the specific allegation. It may be as......

The Papers Of Last Saturday Published A Correspondence On...

subject of Stafford House, the lease of which was offered last November to the nation by Sir William Lever. Sir William Lever said that questions in Parliament during his......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 4 Per Cent.

October 17th. Consols (21) were on Thursday 74:—Friday week 74,1.......

On Thursday At The Old Bailey Mrs. Pankhunt Was Sentenced

to a term of three years' penal servitude for inciting persons unknown to commit felony at the house at Walton Heath which was to have been occupied by the Chancellor of the......

Rumours Were Current Last Week That The Government Had...

to Nationalist pressure and had determined to revoke its decision to sanction the grant to the Irish Agricultural Organization Society. These rumours, circulated in the Radical......

Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, The American Financier, Died In Rome

last Monday after a short illness at the age of seventy-six. On two separate occasions when the national credit was seriously threatened—at the time of the gold scare in 1895......

Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Who Entered The House Of Commons In

1892, has received general congratulations on attaining his Parliamentary majority. That his political associates should appreciate his abilities, his industry, and his......

A Disagreeable Incident In The Marconi Inquiry Was The...

of one of the Unionist members of the Committee, Mr. Harold Smith. On Wednesday a letter was published addressed by him to the Chairman, resigning his seat owing to what took......

On Wednesday Mr. Herbert Samuel Was Under Examination. It Is

a pleasure to record that he had no revelations of any kind to make in regard to the purchase of Marconi shares either in America, in England, or in any other part of the world.......