13 JANUARY 1894, page 3

The Body Of Evidence Now Being Taken In India As

to the .use of opium will, it seems clear, be strongly in favour of the harmlessness of the drug as compared with alcohol. This harmlessness, it should be observed, though as......

Miss Shaw, Who Has Great Experience Of Colonial Life,...

a lecture sit the Colonial Institute on Tuesday on Australia. We have said enough about it elsewhere, but we wish to ask a question here. If her account is true, Southern......

The Local Government Bill For England And Wales Has Passed

through the remainder of the Committee and the Report stage at lightning speed, with but unimportant amend- ments. It was determined yesterday week that the first elections......

The Times' Correspondent Gives Some Curious Facts As To The

influence of French patriotism upon French invest- ments. As a rule, the saving Frenchman will buy nothing outside France, his geographical knowledge being simply nil, but......

On Tuesday, Mr. A. B. Forwood, In Addressing A Meeting-

at Prescot, near Liverpool, dealt with the behaviour of the 'Resolution' in the Bay of Biscay. As he was a member of the Board of Admiralty at the time of her construction, he......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

New Consols (21-) were on Friday 98i.......

On Monday, Mr. A. R. Colquhoun Delivered An Address On

Zambesia to the London Chamber of Commerce at their offices in Eastcheap. Mr. Colquhonn, who, it will be remem- bered, was the first Administrator of Mashonaland, described the......