... suggest the official minimum is likely for the present to be reduced but, with abnormally active trade, no gold from Africa, and the war drain looking as if it might last a good many months, cheap money is quite out of the question. In our opinion, the ...

... go yachting back to South Africa in a hurry, in spite of many temptations. It will be welcome news to many London and provincial playgoers that Mr. Wilson Barrett, after many striking successes in South Africa where the War was, as a modern John Willett ...

... his Majesty with much pomp and state. A chief of the Mohawk tribe named Brant Siro offered us his services in South Africa during the war, which, how ever, for certain reasons we were unable to accept. Brant Siro some years ago shot at Bisley with the first ...

... rumour, some mem tiers ot tnc caru- sharuinsr uansr have irone to South Africa 011 the off-chance of picking up a few stray notes from the rich young officers engaged in the war. The sharps generally like to follow the money, and they often manage to ...

... THE WAR-- WEEK BY WEEK. Continuation of Hostilities-- How the Enemy's Forces are Distributed Good If'or/c by Duller. TO say that the capitulation of Pretoria on June 5 meant the prompt cessation of hostilities--as a considerable section of the Press said--was ...

... DOUGLAS NEWTON ON THIS RUMMY WAR. I MIGHT be tempted to go over to the majority and mut- ter: This is a rummy war! if I did not know the answer. It is: They all are. It is notorious that each war produces a new phase of combat, a new technique of ...

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Winning the War. How jolly it must be to draw up one's chair to the fire, take out a writing-pad and the old fountain- pen. and win the war! I am astonished at the number of people in this country who are able to perform this ...

... CITY NOTES. The Next Settlement begins on June 12. After the War. NOW that the campaign in South Africa has been brought within sight of an end, it is permissible to look round the Stock Exchange markets with a view of forecasting what their probable ...

... had gone to war. After a summer of heat and turmoil, when everyone's nerves were at exasperation point, it would seem as if even the nations have lost their tempers and are now flying at each other's throats. The norrors ot a European war are at our elbow ...

... ber/ins on March 12. The Situation and the Sinews of War. The Bank Return was a strong one, hut the market is still waiting for the proposals of the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to the form in which the war-needs of the country are to he dealt with. For ourselves ...

... NOTES. Th Next Settlement begins on Maxell 24. The Stock Exchange and War News. WE ventured last week to point out that not even Lord Kitchener could tell what the course of the War would be, and before the words were in print the capture of Lord Methuen ...

... A TROPHY OF WAR AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM GENERAL JOUBERT TO GENERAL KOCK. The letter reproduced on this page is one of the most interesting War Souvenirs that have yet come to hand from South Africa. The date should he noticed particularly Oct. 11, 1899 ...