5 JANUARY 1901, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE SITUATION IN CHINA. W HEN a few marauding binds break into Cape Colony and play hide-and-seek there with our troops, the British public grows anxious and restless and begins......

The Birthday Of The Australian Nation.

lIl `E Queen, of course, always says the right thing on public occasions, great and small, but her Govern- ments are not so infallible. There is, therefore, much ground for......