1 AUGUST 1891, page 3

The Birmingham Gazette Of Monday Gives A Curious Account Of

the way in which the plan of bringing Church services to the bedsides of sick people by means of the telephone is being carried out in the Midlands. A special instrument has......

Bank Rate, 24 Per Cent.

New Console (24) - were on Friday 954fr to 96ff,......

Mr. Douglas Freshfleld Writes To Monday's Times That...

at Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, is to be sold by auction on August 6th "in building-plots suitable for the erection of high-class residences, villas, and bungalows," and......

Mr. Montague Crackanthorpe, The Eminent Barrister, Sent A...

and instructive letter to the Times of this day week, on the various attempts that have been made, first, to tax charities, and then, when that appeared to be quite con- trary......

The Railway Accident Which Took Place Near Paris On - Sunday

night, and in which forty-three persons were killed and over one hundred injured, was one of the worst ever recorded. At 9 o'clock, a train of twenty-three carriages left......

An Employers' Liability Case Of Great Importance—" John-...

v. W. H. Lindsay and Co."—was decided in the House of Lords on Tuesday. It is a well-established principle of law that a workman cannot claim compensation_ from an employer if......

A Letter Received In Liverpool From Captain Calder, Of The

British ship Harland,' lying at Valparaiso, and quoted in the Pall Mall Gazette of Monday, contains a stirring account of the doings of H.M.S. Warspite.' Boats, the writer says,......

On Monday, At The Central Criminal Court, Edward Pinter...

guilty to the attempt to obtain £40,000 by false pre- tences from Mr. Streeter. It will be remembered that Pinter professed to be an alchemist, and to have discovered the......