Australian Finance The Federal Government's Scheme For...
known to oblige bondholders who object to it to " contract out," instead of the usual procedure, and this moreover at the peril of an unknown penalty thereafter. It is therefore......
The Botanic Gardens It Would Appear, From What Was Said
at the meeting of the Royal Botanic Society last week, that Mr. Lansbury refuses to renew their lease in the name of democracy. Admission to the famous Gardens is by......
The Foundling Site The Subscriptions Received Towards The...
the site of the Foundling Hospital as a permanent open space exceed £30,000, a generous response in these days, but not nearly enough. We hope that much more will quickly flow......
Lord Trent There Was Something Heroic In The Late Lord
Trent of Nottingham, better known as Sir Jesse Boat, who died on Saturday in Jersey, at the age of eighty-one. The son of a poor Nottingham herbalist, he was a mere boy when he......
Just As Charterhouse Migrated From Its Old Aldersgate...
Godalming, so Merchant Taylors' School, which took over the Charterhouse buildings, is now moving to the outskirts of London, though not quite so far away. At Sandy Lodge, near......
A Loire Steamer Capsizes A Pitiful Fate Overtook A Large
party of workmen and their families, who went down the Loire on Sunday from Nantes to the island of Noirmoutier, on the south of the broad estuary. Their little excursion......
Bank Rate 21 Per Cent., Changed From 3 Per Cent.
on May 14th, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102N ; on Wednesday week, 103 ; a year ago, 102 ? 6 ; Funding Loan (4 per eent.) was on Wednesday 961; on Wednesday......
Writing Of China On May 9th We Dealt With A
summary of the first volume of Mr. Justice Feetham's Report to the Shanghai Municipal Council. That can now be obtained in England for 5s., from Messrs. Pook and Co., 68......
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