7 DECEMBER 1889, page 19

The Members Of The London School Board Hardly Appre- Ciate

the risk they will run at the next election. If they do not insist more earnestly upon a searching investigation into the building of their school-houses, they will all be......

The Sultan, Says The Birmingham Post, Is About To Have

his treasure valued, and has asked for the services of an expert from London. He cannot raise money sufficient for the ex- penditure of the Palace, and is inclined to utilise......

South London Is Threatened With A Plague Of Darkness. The

gas-stokers employed by the South Metropolitan Gas Company recently asked for better terms, and the Directors, besides reducing their shift of work to eight hours, offered them......

H. Stanley, Emin Pasha, And The Entire Cavalcade Accom-...

them, have arrived in safety at Bagamoyo, on the coast. They were escorted from Mpwapwa by German soldiers, and express strongly their sense of the kindness and helpful- ness of......

Mr. C. D. Holmes, Of Fargo, North Dakota, In A

letter to the Times denying that the crops have failed in that State, tells a story illustrative of the extraordinary rate at which wild animals are perishing on the North......

No Further Information Of Any Importance Has Been...

Brazil, where the embargo evidently laid by the Pro- visional Government upon messages by the cable has not yet been removed. There is an impression in Lisbon that a......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent,

New Consols (21) were on Friday 961- to 97 x.d.......

The Elevation Of The Lord Chief Justice Of Ireland, Sir

Michael Morris, to be Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, in the place of Lord Fitzgerald, will secure for London the frequent presence of one of the ablest and the most humorous of the......

The Conferences Of The Liberal Associations At Glasgow...

have set forth a number of very wild claims, to which no one who knows anything of politics attaches the smallest importance. Even the more serious principles adopted, such as......