A Scottish Home Rule Bill Was Discussed By A Handful
of Members in the House of Commons on Friday, May 26th. It proposed the establishment of a Scottish Parliament with one Chamber, in which would sit two Members elected by each......
We Publish Elsewhere A Letter From A Correspondent Who...
means of educating people out of the abominable habit of throwing unsightly rubbish about the countryside. This is a subject in which the Spectator has interested itself for......
We Wish It Were True That, As Has Been Stated
in some news- papers, the back of the Russian Famine is broken. Unfor- tunately, it is far from true. It is difficult to obtain statistics of the full number being fed by the......
No Doubt, However, Most Of The Nuisance Arises From Pure
ignorance. People with a very small amount of education naturally have no cultivated taste, and it simply does not occur to them that paper and empty tins and bottles spoil......
The Forty-seven Unions, Other Than The Amalgamated Engi-...
in the engineering trades have not yet announced the result of the ballot on the employers' revised terms. It is, however, confidently believed that the terms will be accepted.......
The Finance Bill Was Read A Second Time In The
House of Commons on Tuesday by 163 votes to 21. Colonel Wedgwood, who opposed it on behalf of the Labour Party, complained that " the workers " only benefited by the reduction......
At Admiralty House On Monday, By Invitation Of Lady Leo
of Fareham, Mrs. Waldo Richards gave a reading of modern American poetry for the benefit of the Furnishing Fund of the Roosevelt Memorial Association. Particularly interesting......
The Commercial Treaty,concluded By Italy With The...
has been made public. Italy is to give the Bolsheviks a free port at Trieste and to receive similar facilities in the Black Sea ports. Further, Italy is to receive a concession......
The Case Of Mr. Percy, A Printer's Machine-hand Of Glasgow,
who won his appeal in the House of Lords last week against the Glasgow Corporation, deserves to be recorded. Mr. Percy two years ago tendered a penny for his fare to a Glasgow......
In The London County Council Schools, We Believe,...
the proper disposal of rubbish is actually being given to children. That is excellent. But we should like to go further still. In Paris to throw litter about the streets or......
Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent., Changed From 4} Per Cent.
Apr. 13,. 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 99! ; Thursday week, 991; a year ago, SS.......
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