24 NOVEMBER 1928, page 3

. In The House Of Lords On Tuesday Lord Lytton

raised the question of the Washington Eight Hours Convention, and we are bound to say that he and the other Opposition 'speakers had the best of the argument :against the......

* * * * • The London Correspondent Of The

Manchester Guardian says that Lord Byng, the new Chief Commissioner of Police, without waiting for the Report of the Police Inquiry Commission, has decided upon a new system for......

The Case Of The Two Displaced Civil Servants In The

Free State who demanded more compensation than they received has been reconsidered by the Judicial Committee of:the Privy Council. It was reconsidered on the ground that- Lord......

At Bow Street Police Court On Friday, November 16th, Sir

Chartres Biron made an order for the copies of the novel, The Well of Loneliness, to be destroyed as an obscene book. On a previous day he had refused to hear the evidence of a......

* * * * In The House Of Commons On

Tuesday there was a 'lively domestic quarrel in the Labour Party. Mr. A. M. Samuel moved a resolution to allow the introduction of a Bill granting members of the Diplomatic......

* * In A Letter About The Rye Life-boat Published

in the Times of Wednesday, Mr. Shane Leslie recalled the epigram of Nicarchus which may be translated, " It was a life-boat only in name, for those who embarked in it were......

Bank Rate, 41 Per Cent., Changed From 5 Per Cent.,

on April 21st, 1927. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101}; on Wednesday week 10111 ; a year ago 1001. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 891 ; on Wednesday week......