It Has Long Been Notorious That Irish Unrest Is Largely
due to ignorance, and that the work of reform should begin with the Irish schools. The schools cost the State more, in proportion, than do our British schools, but their......
Another Well-known Dublin Detective Was Murdered In A...
of the city last Saturday night. He was the fourteenth Irish policeman to be assassinated this year by Sinn Feiners, in pursuance of their campaign of terrorism. It is......
Oxford Still Hesitates To Make Greek Optional And Not Com-
pulsory for Responsions. In a somewhat confused debate in Congregation on Tuesday Professor Murray's compromise, imposing Greek on candidates for all honour schools except......
The Awards Made To Tank Designers By The Royal Commission
on Awards to Inventors were announced in the newspapers on Friday week. The grants, amounting in all to £18,000, were allotted as follows : £15,000 between Sir William Tritton......
We Greatly Regret To Record The Death On Tuesday Of
Sir Evelyn Wood. His death removes the last of the great names of the Victorian Army, and cuts one of the last links which bind the Army of to-day to the Crimean War and the......
The Commission Expressed Their Opinion That It Was " The
misfortune of Mr. de Mole, not his fault, that his invention was in advance of his time, and was put aside because the occasion for its use had not then arisen." The misfortune......
It Is A Sad Sign Of The Times, However, That
any considerable aumber of men should be found to vote for freeing their par. tioular trade from a tax which is levied upon everybody whose income exceeds a stated figure. In......
There Is No Sort Of Doubt That The Men To
whom the Commission awarded grants all thoroughly deserved the nation's gratitude, but the award of a small money grant unaccompanied by any honour seems perhaps an inadequate......
It Was Natural For Sir Bartle Frere, Amidst The Difficulties
of 1880, to ask the War Office to send out Evelyn Wood. It thus happened that it fell to Wood to inaugurate the negotiations with the Boers in 1881 after Colley's defeat at......
The Result Of The South Wales Miners' Ballot On Income
Tax has been announced two or three times, and each time has been announced differently. In the end, however, it appears that there was a very small majority—under 1500—in a......
First Used On The Somme. The Commission, However, Deter...
that these defects were only brought out by conditiont of use " much more stringent and protracted than those stipu• lated for by the Government when ordering them." This de......
We Have Always Understood That The First Thing Which Happens
when a new subject is mooted in a public office is for the keeper of the Register to make search for any previous communi- cations on the same or kindred subjects. These form......
Bank Rate, 6 Per Cent.,changed From 5 Per Cent. Nov.
6, 1919.......
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