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... LELPEI'ES TO~ TIM EDITOR. w | ?? TEE GASWORKERS' UNION A )ND THE TOWN COUNCIL. G asworkers' Union Office, 17 Oswald Street, Glasgow. December 7, 1899. i Sir.-I listened with very great interest to the debt e ,n the Town Counni this afternoon. The ΒΌ a 2poearedi to me to be absolutely irrele- 1 5 '-'o the subject at isSlo. This union sent i ,,-ii in p roposals for the formation of a Board oC ...
... 1 --f- ?? w''a 1? ? 'I ?? C4?5wrzl, I c I FRIDAY, DEcEv= 1, IS99. An incomplete list of the casualties that occurred in the fighting at Modder River was received at the War Office yester- day. The list does not include the casual- ties of the Ninth Brigade. Lord Methuen is among the wounded, being shot in the fleshy part of the thigh. No further particulars have been received. * On the eastern ...
... I- THE CAPE SERVIOC Launch of a Union Liner at Belfast (PROM oUR SPECIAL COBRMsE l5T.) Belfast, December 2L This forenoon Messm Harland & Wolff launched the Saxon, a twin-screw steamer of 12,910 tons gross, which they have built for the mail service of the Union Company, When completed the ; vessel will be the largest not only in the Cape service, but in any British colonial servio. i and in ...
... FRESH LIGHlT ON BURNS'S I SO-CALLED POVERTY. (RO1 A COBaEFwPOTENUr) The belief that throughout the whole of his career Burns was a very poor man, who in the end died practically a pauper, is so universally received as incontrovertible fact that to seek to dispute it is looked upon, even in Burns circles, as the rankest of heresies. Why this should be so is not very evident, for vwhatever ...
... 65F FLErT STREET, Thursday Night. THE WM. One item of news which has reached this country tn-day from South Africa' is singularly interesting. It is that Sir Charles 1 Warren, who was supposed to be in De Aar,' has really gone to Natal, and having arrived at Pietermaritzbnrg, has departed hence to 'join Sir Redvers Buller at the front. Why this arrangement or rearrangement has been made we do ...
... 1THE LONNDON CATTLE SHOW. Sweeping Successes of the Queen and Royal Family. (mOM OUR SPECLkf CofrEsroNSDE5T.) London, Monday Night. I went so fully into the general featnres of the *how which opened at Islington this morn- ing that, with so much that is worth saying I about tha competitiwn in the different sections, I reed not waste any time on prelitminaries, and will mnerely say that the ...
... I On LToAB C00 I)XCR I ?? 65 FtI;T.E STmEFT. 'B Friday Night. q THE WAR. h i A somiewhat disquieting piece of's] information has been posted ulp at the War Office to-night. It is to the effect that n lh further news has been received to-day fron Lord p Methuen. but that a telegram has been received P at the Cape from the Orange River Station an- a nouncing that a railway culvert was blown up ...
... NEO-PURITAN'S -AND NATIONAL CRISES. ThFom a scene of the most uninterrupted re- tireueiit woe bzlen passed at once into a state of constant engagenment. Not that our soc'ety i mitch mnltiplied; the addition of an individuai c kas made all this difference. Lady Austen and f i-e pass our days alternoately at each othe fl s ,rhdfetz. In the morning I walk with one ti or other of the ladies, awd ...
... LET ERS TO THE EDITOR.' THE WAR IN THE TRANSVAALT 173' St Vincent Street, jS Sir-One Glasgow, December 20, 1o. ?? is iot greatly surprised that a poli- tician like Sir Wilfrid Lawson should indulge in such weak rhetoric and nurposeless erticism S as characterised his address at Carlisle last week, des but I confess to a feeling of misgiving that an Sox ?? Minister of the rank and experience ...
... ANTI-BRITISH FEELING IN I FRANCE. The Insults to the Queen. (rB'xs TLECEGAS.) Paris, December 2. The President of the British Chamber 0o Commerce in Paris, in a letter to the Matin, refers to the differences existing between Eng- land and France and to the attacks on the person of the Queen, which have caused such strong feeling in England. After dwelling upon the chivalrous instincts of ...
... TME ApMOURED ICilUISERS. i L IpU i I s Description of H.M.S. Cressy. To-day the Fairfield Engineering and Ship- building Company (Limited) will launch ELM.S. Cresu, the first of the two armoured cruisers of 12,000 tons displacement they are building for the British Governmnent. The vessel represents an improvement on the Diadems, two of which- the Diadem and the Argonaut-were built by t the ...
... CLACKMANNAN MiCETION. Mr Youngers Candidature, Mr George Y~onnger, the 'Unionist candidate, I 0 addressed three meetings in the western part a of the constituency on Saturday. The first was h held at Cambusskenneth Abbey. The meeting Vc took place in the Schoolroom and the audience, It] iwhich numbered 30 persons, was presided over by Provost Hunter. The Chairman, in intro- ducing the ...