On Thursday Evening Mr. Long Described His New Water Bill.
The area will embrace the six millions of Greater London. - An elected' Board; chesen froth the Metropolitan borough's and the suburban county areas affected, will have power to......
.mr. Balfour's Words . Pledging , The Government May Be...
verbatim. "Allow me to say in conclusion," saidlir. Balfour, "that I do .very cordially agree with what I take to be his [Kr. Kimber's] main thesis,—namely, that the state of......
In The House Of Commons On Thursday Mr. Balfour Explained
his new proposals in regard to procedure to a crowded and deeply interested House. The main changes are as follows. Immediately after unopposed private business and questions......
Thursday Was A. Day Of Large Proposals, For No Sooner
had Mr. Long finished with water than Mr. Ritchie dealt with beer and spirits. He introduced the new Licensing Bill, among the main features of which is a strengthening of the......
Mr.-h. G. Wells Delivered A Striking Lecture On Friday Week
at the Royal Institution on the " Discovery of the Future," in which be boldly vindicated the assumption of the role of prophet by the serious man of science. Modern science bad......
Mr. Asquith, Who Followed Mr. Balfour, Could Not, Of Course,
do anything but agree in theory that the anomalies of our present electoral system ought to be done away with, but he may be said, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, to have dis- missed......
Two By-elections Have Been Held During The Past Week. In
the borough of Hampstead, where the seat was vacated by the retirement owing to illness of Mr. Brodie Hoare, Mr. Milvain, K.O., was returned by a majority of 1,725, polling......
Bank. Rate,.84 Per Cent. . New Consols (2i) Were On
Friday 94g.......