Mr. E. F. Wise Has Resigned From The Civil Service
to become director of the London Office of the Soviet Russian Co-operative Societies. Mr. Wise has long been known as one of the most able and energetic of the younger Civil......
During The Past Five Years The State Of Indian Finances
has gone from bad to worse, and the Budget for this last year will probably show a larger deficit even than in 1921-22—probably double the amount. Income-tax has fallen far......
The Treaty Designed To Protect The Halibut Fishery Of The
North Pacific Ocean, which was signed by Canada and the United States on Friday, March 2nd, is of great historical interest, though not of supreme importance in itself. It is......
It May Be Remembered That At The End Of Last
year Sir Doveton Sturdee appealed for funds to save the ' Victory ' from falling to pieces. Now a generous gentleman, who desires to remain anonymous, has placed the magnificent......
Our First Leading Article This Week Is An Exposition,...
for our readers' careful consideration, of a scheme for Life Membership of the Spectator. By an extra- ordinary coincidence a gentleman in Rhodesia has written to ask on what......
In A Very Interesting Lecture To The Middlesex Hospital...
School, on Tuesday,. Dr. Haldane criticized the materialistic theory of life. The mechanistic view, ha stated, was predominant in the middle of last century and still influences......
The Sixty-seventh American Congress In The Last Few Days...
existencepractically talked out the President's • Ship Subsidy Bill. Amy " filibuster " is an unpleasant business. Consequently the means adopted by the Senate to defeat the......
The Estimates For Civil Service And Revenue Depart- Ments...
1923-24 were published on Monday. They show a decrease of £88,184,997 as against last year. Individually, there is a reduction in most of the services. In a speech on Monday......
Bank Rate, 8 Per Cent., Changed From 31 Per Cent.
July 13, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday IOUs g Thursday week, 101* ; a year ago. 971,......