6 JANUARY 1923, page 11

Such Procedure Against A British Subject Must Surely Be...

since the fall of the house of Stuart. The article which Mr. Roberts published was obviously highly libellous. We have seen no reason stated why he was not proceeded against by......

An Honours List Was Issued On New Year's Day. It

may be described as mainly a Departmental list ; the political Honours list has been postponed, apparently in order that it may be subjected to the new tests recom- mended by......

New Year's Day Was An Important Date For The Railway

companies, as then the Act of 1921 came into force. Under the Act four large railway groups are substituted for the numerous independent railway companies. The new groups are as......

Under The New Act The Profits Of The Companies Above

a fixed amount will be returned to traders in the form of a reduction in rates. The rates will be regularly reviewed by the Railway Rates Tribunal. The more the companies carry......

It Is Becoming Obvious That If And When We Get

our unemployed millions back at work, it will not be on the same work that they left. Markets, methods of produc- tion, even the needs of individuals have changed since 1914 too......

But It Must Not Be, Supposed That Though The New

era has been inaugurated great changes will come quickly. The companies have been given until July 1st to make their arrangements. According to the Daily News it is expected......

Mr. R. Holland-martin's Annual Report On The Clearing...

the remarkable way in which cheques have supplanted legal tender. Barely sixty years ago, Lord Avebury, as we read in the Times, stated that out of £1,000,000 paid into his bank......

At The Same Time Occurs An Illustration Of The Appalling

complication of a Balkanized Central Europe, doubly divided by bitter national hatreds and the yet fiercer cross currents of class feeling. The. Austrian Socialists object to......

Two Years Ago Mlle. Blanche Garneau Was Found Dead In

a Quebec public park. Last week Mr. Roberts, the editor of a Montreal newspaper, entered upon a sentence of twelve months' imprisonment, to which he had been condemned by no......

Bank Rate, 8 Per Cent., Changed From 81 Per Cent.

July 13, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 1001; Thursday week, 99-/ ; a year ago, 911.......