The Awkward Controversy Growing Out Of The Last Rifle Match
for the Palma Trophy has, we hope, been satisfactorily terminated. The conditions of the competition for the trophy provided that the weapon used should be of the national army......
It Is With Great Satisfaction That We Record The Appointment
of Mr. Firth to fill the place of Mr. York Powell as Regius Professor of History at Oxford. Of Mr. Firth's capacity to fill a post held in turn by Stubbs, Freeman, and Fronde......
To The Morning Post During The Week Mr. Kipling Has
beeti contributing a very fascinating, and also very instructive, fantasy in regard to Army reform. He projects himself into a time when many of the reforms which have been......
Parliament During The Week Has Not Done Anything Of Im.
portance, Mr. Balfour having arranged that during Ascot week nothing of a contentious character should come before the House, except the unfolding of Mr. Arnold-Forster's Army......
But In : Spite Of -this, Wears Bound To Admit That He
has put himself in the wrong, holding, as he does;the post of a servant of the Dominion Government. Its duty was to make a written protest to the Canadian Government, and if......
On Friday Week, In The Queen's Hall, Lord Rosebery Addressed
a large meeting convened by the Liberal League. Lord Rosebery vindicated at length the necessity for the separate and continued existence of that body. It combined independence......
Accounts Were Received On Thursday Of An Accident Or...
in New York on the colossal scale usual with such occurrences in the United States. The large excursion steamer, the General Slocum,' had been chartered for a picnic party of......
Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.
Consols (21 per cent.) were on Friday 914.......