We Are Glad To See That So Much Public Interest
has been taken in the fact that Mr. Thomas Hardy on Wednestay celebrated -his eightieth birthday. It is rightly felt that, whilst old age in • itself. is venerable, it is......
The National Railway Wages Board Concluded Last Week Its...
hearing of the case for and against the railwaymen's new claims for more wages. The proceedings were conducted in a decorous manner, but the question involved is none the less......
But The Real Objection To Any Attempt To Fix Wages
on a caste principle is that it must promote incessant demands from all the other castes as soon as one has been favoured. For if the railway caste were to receive higher wages......
We Record With Deep Regret The Death Of Canon Rawnsley
on Friday week, at the age of sixty-nine. He was appointed, a few years after leaving Oxford, to the vicarage of Wray on Lake Windermere, and he spent the rest of his life there......
Universal Sympathy And Deep Interest Have Been Evoked...
country by the calamity which overtook the small Lincolnshire town of Louth last Saturday. A sudden downpour of rain in almost tropical violence--so violent indeed that men......
The Latest And Most Efficient Of German Zeppelins, L7i, Is
shortly to be surrendered to Great Britain and flown over to this country by a mixed crew of British and Germans. The improvement made in Zeppelins during the- war is shown by......
The Increase Of Inland Letter Postage To A Minimum Charge
o1 twopence, which came into effect last Tuesday, seems to carry us back to quite a remote. age. It is a hundred years since Tom Moore published a collection of satirical poems......
It Is With Great Regret We Record The Death Of
Dr. Morrison, the well-known Chinese expert, sometime Pekin correspondent of the Times and later political adviser to the first President of the Chinese Republic. There is no......
Bank Rate,7 Per Cent.,changed From 6 Per Cent.apr. 16,...
per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 851; Thursday week, 86i; a year ago, 94k.......