5 JUNE 1909, page 2

The News From South Africa Is On The Whole Favourable

to the acceptance of the Constitution. In its amended form it was adopted by both Houses of the Orange River Colony and of the Transvaal on Monday. At Pretoria the Motion was......

Parliament Reassembled On Thursday. Although Not Very...

was done, the lobbies, like the newspapers, seem to have been full of talk as to the future conduct of the Session. The Times in particular has been calculating that if the......

M. Emile 011ivier's Latest Instalment Of Reminiscences In...

des deux Mondes is of enthralling interest. They deal with the final stages of the negotiations over the Hohenzollern candidature which led to the war and the historic meetings......

Holbein's "duchess Of Milan" Will Not Leave The National...

The National Art Collections Fund, to which the picture was offered for 072,000, has obtained the whole of this very large sum save some 26,500, which is still to be collected.......

The Despatch From H.m. Vice-consul At Adana Forwarded To The

"Friends of Armenia" by the Foreign Office gives a most interesting account of the work of the Relief Com- mittee. From this it appears that on May 11th in Adana alone......

A Reuter's Telegram Published Last Saturday Announces...

Viceroy is circularising the provincial officials as to the expediency of contributing towards the endowment fund of Hong-kong University. He declares that he is ready to urge......

The Australian Commonwealth Has Passed Through A...

the week. On Friday week Mr. Fisher, the Labour Prime Minister, announced in the House of Repre- sentatives that owing to his defeat on the previous day he did not desire to......

Count Zeppelin Has Eclipsed All His Previous Achievements...

remarkable flight which began at 9.45 p.m. on Saturday evening and lasted nearly forty hours. Starting from Friedrichshafen, he sailed to Leipzig rid Ulm, Nuremberg, Bayreuth,......