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... NATIONAL LOCK-OUT TO-DAY. PROSPETS OF A BITTER FIGHT. (BY OUR SPECIAL CORRE8PONDENT.) Counsels of wisdom and conciliation have not pire- vailecl, and the building trade of the country is to- day plunged into the throes of a great locmk-out. Thne i immediate disputrnts1 are the National Aestociaition of Operative Pla1sterers and the National Arssocis- tioo of Meat-sr Builders. But other ...

... I SERI7US FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS. 1 A CINEM.ATOGRAPHRO ACCIDENT. SCENE AT A LONDON THEATRE. OPERATOR'/ EXCITING' EXPERIENCE. The [amsrneraimith Theatre of Varieties, in King. streetWest, Flamniersmith, was the scene of an aslarnring incident about ten o'clock on Saturday night. A wan named Andrew Wraight was giving an exhibition with & cinemnatographe, and was throwing a picture of the manager ...

... THE LJNAD OF ST. GU'TjiLAG'.* IT wvas sid (f Dr (cor c'o.-row, hr cic of the fcev ten wi1o knew him Wcil, ?? he ?? draw mnoC1 fi o om a vitdespreadtng marh with it, crling rusi'es than from t cst bcacttiftI scenery.' ote is rumntioli( d of this remark by a perusal of te pngc s of Pr. IIissey's latest v- kol, O\CI Feln and \Vold,' in whlich are described the (iclights of a driving tout- ...

... OUR BRIDGE OF SIGS. EVERY patriotic Londoner--and in these clays we are all supposed to be brimming over with the municipal spirit ?? read with approval the searching protest against the design for the new Vauxhall Bridge which the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, Sir EDWARD POYNTTER, and other eminent men have published in to-day's Tii4,s. They are not, of course, the first in the field of ...

... THE CENTRAL AUTHORITY. [BY CLOUDESLEY BREPZrTON.] THE Duke. of Devonshire's appeal last summer for full discussion and debate on the problems of secondary education has undoubtedly met with thorough success. Nearly all the public and educational bodies concerned in the matter have met and registered their variotls views. The reappearance of last year's bill in the Queen's Speech is an ...

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