On Monday Night, The Cape House Of Assembly Passed The
second reading of the new Franchise Bill by a majority of 45 to 20. Mr. Hofineyr, the head of the Africander Bund, supported the Bill, and declared that his party had nothing to......
On Tuesday, Thomas Neill, The Man Already Accused Of Sending
threatening letters, was brought up before Sir John Bridge at Bow Street, and charged with the murder of Matilda Clover. The case, which has come to be known as " The South......
Sir E. Watkin Did Not Limit Himself To Suggestions To
which his professional experience gives a certain amount of weight. He began his letter by suggesting that there should be another Round-Table (a very small one apparently), at......
We Are Assured, On An Authority Which We Can Implicitly
trust, that the book called "An Englishman in Paris," reviewed in these columns on July 9th, is not to be ascribed to the late Sir Richard Wallace. As we mentioned that rumour,......
Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent. New Consols (2k) Were On
Friday 9E; — 97.......
The Latest News Seems To Show That Both At The
Carnegie Company's works and in Idaho, the labour troubles are passing away. In both cases, a very large number of the leaders, and even of the rank and file, of the strikers......
It Is Stated In Thursday's Times That " The Recognised
organ of the Irish Clericals,"—we suppose, the Freeman's Journal,— states that Mr. Davitt, M.P., has been congratulated on his -election for North Meath by Father Dorney,......
On Monday, The Burglar Who Broke Into Colonel Arthur Paget's
house in Belgra,ve Square a few nights ago, was charged at the Westminster Police-Court, and committed for trial at the Old Bailey. It appeared in evidence that this prisoner,......
Sir Edward Watkin Makes In Monday's Times A Suggestion That
we have urged on several occasions in these columns,— that is, that a serious attempt should be made to create a physical union with Ireland by means of a submarine tunnel. If,......