William Watson, An Engine-driver, Was Sentenced On...
to one month's imprisonment for having committed perjury in divorce proceedings against his wife. Watson had either t,o admit that he had condoned the misconduct of his wife and......
Mr. Henry Ford Has Closed His Huge Automobile Plant In
Detroit, thus throwing 75,000 men out of employment. Mr. Ford, as a manufacturer, is exercising the "Right to Strike." He says the high prices he is being charged for steel and......
The Ex-kaiser Has Announced His Betrothal To The Princess...
of Schtinaich Carolath, the daughter of Prince Henry of Reuss. The marriage will take place in November. When the engagement was first rumoured there was a storm of monarchist......
The Local Authorities Of Leicester Are To Be...
the scheme they have devised for solving the unemploy- ment problem. Instead of the Guardians giving doles out of the Poor Rate and allowing the unemployed man to wander the......
The Question Which Is The Most Desirable Place For The
next Imperial Conference, due next year, is being discussed in the Pram throughout the Empire. The cape Times has quite rightly been drawing attention to the fact that Cape Town......
We Referred In Our Issue Of August 12th To The
astonishing revelations as to the pay and hours of work of the Civil Service made in the latest Reports of the Select Committee on Estimates. The evidence on which these Reports......
The Evidence As To The Pay Of The Civil Service
is equally startling. Before the War there were 283,000 Civil Servants, costing £29,500,000. In the present year there are 325,000, who cost over 167,000,000. In other words,......
The Great Western Railway, As Part Of A "safety First
campaign, has recently distributed to its employees a metal token, about the size of a penny, which bears on its obverse the legend, "Is it safe ? " The reverse of the " charm "......
Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent., Changed From 3i Per Cent.
July 13, 1922; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 991 ; Thuraday week, 9911; a year ago, 881.......
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