De Beers Closing Down The Opening Of The Diamond Fields
at Kimberley just over sixty years ago meant a new era for South Africa, both of good and ill. The closing of the mines, now controlled by the Dc Beers Company, and of the......
A Pre-war Diplomat The Death Of Sir Maurice De Bunsen
removes one more of the little group of British diplomats to whom destiny allotted leading parts in the drama of the fateful month before War broke out in 1914. Sir Maurice, who......
Hospital Nursing
The " Lancet Commission " on Nursing issued its final Report last week. It makes recommendations that touch the whole life of a Hospital nurse from the time she begins her......
The British Industries Fair
The Duke of York, at the official dinner at the Mansion House on Monday night, described the British Industries Fair as the " shop window " of our Empire. It is truly......
Progress In India
The Government of India, while the Consultative, Committee is still held up by the insoluble communal question, which it is now to refer to the British ! Government, is......
Railway Losses
It is not only the railway shareholders who have been alarmed by the railway companies' declarations of dividends for the past half-year. When three of the companies show......
Bank Rate 5 Per Cent., Changed From 8 Per Cent,
on February 18th, 1932. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday loot ; on Wednesday week, 99 ; a year ago, 102}. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 911 ; on Wednesday......
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