The Decision Of The Treasury To Withdraw After June, 1906,
the annual grant now paid as extra fees for the teaching of the Irish language in Irish primary schools has created a considerable stir in Ireland. When the grant was originally......
The Daily Chronicle In A Leading Article In Its Issue
of Tuesday drives home the lessons to be drawn from the new Board of Trade Blue-book on " The Progress of Merchant Shipping in the United Kingdom and the Principal Maritime......
It Is With Deep Regret That We Record The Death
of Miss Flora Stevenson, well known in Edinburgh, and indeed throughout Scotland, for the remarkable work accomplished by her both in the philanthropic and the educational......
German Shipping Has Increased More Quickly Than Ours ;...
from 982,355 tons in 1870, it reached 2,322,045 in 1903. But ours in that year was 11,831,439 tons. To say with Mr. Chamberlain that " our bitterest and severest competitors and......
A Singular Incident, Which May Hereafter Prove To Have Been
of importance, is reported from Pekin. There is evidently a keen, though secret, struggle going on there between the Reformers and the Reactionaries, and recently the Dowager-......
Chatham' And Her Terrible Cargo, Which Was Sunk In The
Suez Canal, took place on Thursday, happily with no evil results, though the experts would not commit themselves beforehand to any definite opinion as to what might not be the......
The Government Intends, It Is Believed, To Strengthen...
position of Great Britain in the Far East. As a beginning, Singapore, already a great port, will be turned, by the purchase of the immense private docks now known as the......
The Keenness With Which The Celebration Of The Centenary Of
Trafalgar is being taken up throughout the country is most remarkable. It is, indeed, impossible to recall any historical commemoration which has attracted anything like the......