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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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 4t4LtASGOVW HERALD+ SHILLING I WAR FUND. | rELIEF FOR FAMILIES OF SOLDlERS. Tctal up to date, 85,013 Shillings. T i9 Fund, started hv the proprietors of the 'Glasgow Herald for the Rel'ef of the ?? of our Slcdiers who are fighting treir co':ntry's battles in South Africa, has met witb a prompt and generous responas -re ublec. 1.r; arcely necessary to mention that the prin- ,i..a1 object of ...
... THE QUEEN AT WINDSOR GASTLE. I ~ ~ ?? (nROEx THl COURT CUCUIAL) WVindsor Castle, Thursday. 1 The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon ac- cornpanied by Princess Louis of Battenberg and Princess Alice, and Her Majesty went out this morning accompanied by Princess Henry of Battenberg. Princess Henry of Battenberg -went to London yesterday and opened the annual winter sale in connection with the ...
... CLACKBIANNNAN ELECTION. Mr Younger's Candidature. Mr George Younger, the Urior:tz canr~tda, addressed two meetings last evenrte, He i.- spoke at Forest M vill, a inge ?? as, three miles from Akoa, and the iahl ?? which are mainly engaged in sri'ul'ursl rt- suits. The meeting was feld in t schc',., and about 40 electors attended. SLir of Gartlove, presided. Mr Younger, as usual, occupteu t'n ...
... a The Draft Bill. A special meeting of the Clyde Trust to oars- sider the draft bill to be submitted to Parlia- ment was bold in the hall yesterday-the Hon. the Lord Provost (Mr Chisholm) in the chair. The Secretary (Mr Mackenzie) read the minute of the Committee of Management, which stated that on the suggestion of Dr rre, who reported that the sub-committee had only had one meet- ing with ...
... JS m M3 b TUESDAY, DECIERu 12, 1809. Further particulars are published to-day of I the engagement at Stormberg in which General i Gatacre found himself outnumbered by the i Boers and retired after fighting far three hours. i General Gatacre was misled by his ?? as to the strength and disposition of the Doer force. The casualties are very heavy, over 600 officers and men being either killed, ...
... SEVERE SSOWSTOQ. E Glasgow. Thte ridwinter weather which we have recently esperienced in Glasgow culminatedon Monday night in a snowstorm of exceptional sevcrity. The cold snap set in on Friday last, when thle trnemcrature suddenly fell to below frcezing goint. This continued throughoutt Saturdaty and Sunday, and on the latter night 16 degrees of frost were registered. The sudden rhange from ...
... GLASGOW HERALD'i SHILLING i WAR FUND. I RELIEF FOR FAMILIES OF SOLDIERS. Tetal up to date, 84,700a, Shillings. TIds Fund, started by the proprietors of th's Glasgow Herald for the Relief of the Families of our Soldiers who are fighting thei r o-intry's battles in South Africa, has mnet with a prompt and generous response ti i th public. i .serrri-ly necessary to mention that the prin ...
... LABOUR A.-FFAIM IS. COAL CONC!LIATION BOARD. The Coal Conciliation Board met yesterday in London to consider the demand of the miners'E for a further increase in wages of 5 per cent. l] beyond the 40 per cent- above the 1879 standard, which they are now getting. The followin- gentlemen represented the Coalownors' Asso- ?? Alfred Hewlett, Mr XV. L. Bourke, Mr W. Kellett, Mer Bramall (Lancashire ...
... I (azu'rn'5 TaXZLERAM i Berlin, December 13. The Heichatagto-day continued the debate on the Estimates. Dr Von2Miguel, Minister of Finance, replied to the critic passed yesterday by Dr Lieber upon the Emperor Wiam's speech at Ham- burg. That speech had found a patriotic echo in the hearts of millions of Germans, and also as a wanig against the excessive growth of the power of party politics it ...