Lord Leighton's Sisters Have Very Generously Presented...
with its beautiful Arab hall, to the nation on condition that it shall be properly maintained at the public expense. The only serious obstacles to be now sur- mounted are how to......
Mr. E. N. Buxton Writes To The Times Of Saturday
that the Government of Bombay are about to set up a sanctuary for the African elephant in the coast-area of Somaliland. Within the reserve, shooting at elephants will be......
It Is Sometimes Asserted That It Would Be Impossible To
introduce compulsory registrations of title to land into England, because England is an old country and its land system highly complicated. Registration may do very well for......
The Times' Correspondent In India, The Only One As Yet
recognised by the public, should be a little more minute in his detail of facts. He reports on Thursday a most important speech by the Viceroy on opening the Taptee Railway, a......
A Very Curious Amphibious Railway Was Opened At Brighton On
Saturday,—a railway which runs from Brighton to Rotting- dean (some four and a half miles) through the water instead of under it. This is accomplished by the rails being laid at......
Sir Robert Reid, Speaking Yesterday Week At Rugby On The
Radical leadership, said that Lord Rosebery was forced to accept the leadership by the refusal of many of the Liberal Ministers to serve under Sir William Harcourt,—a refusal of......
The Story About Sir John Soane's Will Which We Quoted
last week from a contemporary turns out to be nearly base- less. The Trustees of the Museum were obliged, indeed, to open certain receptacles at considerable intervals, but they......
The Sheffield Poor-law Schools Committee Has Just Issued...
on its system of scattered or isolated homes for pauper children. The object of the scheme was to avoid all aggregations of pauper children and to secure the most com- plete......
Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent.
New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 1111,.......
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