... they would have to go back many I- years to find as prosperou n. year as 899 in the d cottan spinning industry. Generally speaking, a throughout the country sound trade, high wages, o and good profits were prevalent in 1899, wbjle ,r the dear money rates ...

... doing than at any time this year, btrt prices are not at present affected. In yarns the export trade is slow,= but, generally speaking, spinners are well off for particulars. BARROW IRON.-There is a quieter tone in the hematite pig iron trade this s week, ...

... pazty to the upset there The preeet &45itn of business in Shanghai has led to B mills at Fall SAver and tbe South tg rt This speak foriteM Itis ted ht the average shpineni to China the list f ears have kept edm upen ,l50, M at work, or asbt one-third of ...

... passengers A tea-el i: runanr by 155,513 and £23,345 in Q aid thi.rrd-class 2,311,145 in number and 37 a meney,. (Generally speaking, the Cc at earned por passengers ehowed a slight d~w'e th:ch rtasq a satisfactory condition of * air. rlne affic. owing ...

... the corn crops. After harvest the weather was very favourable] for outdoor work up to the end of the year, and generally speaking the labourers were fully em- ployed.- RAILWAY PERILS. A SIGNALMAN BLAMED. Lieutena-nt-Colonel P. G. Von, Donlop's report ...

... the credit of next year £13,513 7sa lId. COMM1ERCIAL LAW SUITS, a rr IMLPORTANT NEW3NV DEPARTURE. i: Mr. Justice Machew, speaking in the Queen's S Btnch Division, said he deseired to make a state- f ?? which, he believed, would be of interest to ,ie ...

... mentioned that the tenders were almost immediately to be indited the )ver for the making of the Pacific cable, and he went don to speak on imperial defence. The question, inos he BAd, was one of most absorbing interest, and 6tes.. he was glad to notice that the ...

... present debenture indebtedness to the com- pany amounted to ;C480,000, and the effect of the proposed alteration, roughly speaking, was s to rather more than double the present in- debtedness. The total indebtedness would be secured by a charge upon the ...

... inter-colonial trade between Bombay, China, and 1 Japan, which was exceptionally brisk last year, L is now, comparatively speaking, idle. Fortu- nately, the Calcutta trade has not been adversely f d by drought, although the advent of is plague in that ...

... suicide. She was committed for trial to the ass-tea. LORD LONDONDERRY AT NEWCASTLE. THE POSTMATR-GENERALSHIP. Lord Londonderry, speaking at Newcastle last night, said he did not know, till he saw it in the paper that morning, that his name had been mentioned ...

... renorts on the acorking of the com- p-se under all sorts of Conditions from over 40 shinrtcntr -.end Rhipnes~ter5 who all s-peak very l'tly of t. valu e of the invenao Seeing th tie 'amp ,ffaemed by adopting the Evoy compass ,;:v often in one voyage ...

... Noveover ofe o Tar- re nt advances wore not due to a i' enisi-.. but en to vhat he had heard aptly 'n5 as ate prosperity crisis. Speaking 0cc trbe . ChaerCt-an added that the ?P'id cil ao ncri--vied by £250,000 owing to shirorn of the Burton Union Bank and i ...