... reports:- Agricultural labourers have been fully em- ployed during August, chiefly in connection with the harvest. Generally speaking, the supply of extra men for harvest has not been equal to the demand, the exceptions being chiefly in the Eastern Counties ...

... cheers were raised, followed by the singing of Rule, Britannia! and the waving'of Uniou Jacks. When Mr. Crooks attempted to speak again God Save the Queen was lustily sung, and the huge mass of people began to swing back- wards and forwards, and things ...

... Mr. 1). F. Goddard, M.P., and Mr. A. W. Soames, M.P., voted for the Sunday Closing Bill for Ioaliioutlishire. Mr. Goddard, speaking at the 1pswicrl Reform Club on February 28th, 1895, upon the Sunday closing question, ?? if I were in Parliament now, I should ...

... drunk.-Prosecutor: I\o, 'hes was perfectly 6ober. Prisoner: Didn't you come to me with your clenched fist and say, If you speak disparagingly of the Queen: I shall knock you through the win- dow ?-Prcsecutor: Yes, but I shad no intention of striking ...

... 000 miles was a thing which the world had never seen or attempted before; yet it had been accomplished without at hitch. Speaking with a full sense of responsi- bility, le would urge the Volunteers at homne to train more diligently than ever, for efficiency ...

... day, 115 millions of the world's inhabitants speak teio English language; 58 millions speak 'renchi; 85 millions speak Russian; 80 millions .spealk ('iernian; 18 millions speak Spanish; and 3:8 ilnioiis speak Italian. In 1898, the domestic ...

... officer ought to feel proud to command, and I am constantly having their virtues extolled to me. In fact, Lord Chdsham always speaks of them as his pattern squadron. 'We have not yet received any notification that the authorities intend sending us home; and ...

... lan- guage, in which I am not in the habit of in- dulging. (21 Have I been ruled out of order by the Chairman and continued speaking?-Yes; as that is the only way to fet a hearing, by reason of the rowdy conduct of certain members whom the Chairman is unable ...

... Winston Churchill, speaking at the I m- pire Theatre, Oldham. said that with regard to South Africa we should have no hesitation in adopting Sir A. Milner's maxim, Never again. In a letter to the Times, Col. Schield speaks in terms of high praise ...

... from othat discredited and convicted truasoi factory. They speak for Afrikanders, do they? WVell, who and what is an Afri- kander? 'Mr. Schureiner claims to be an Afri- anwder. Do they speak for him? Mr. T. D. Villiers (Mayor of the Paarl, where Mr. Mor- ...

... straining the patience of loval Church- men, and were in all probability rendering it something like the duty of honest men to speak I plainly of the possibilities of disestablishment t and disendowment. Here he wanted to be quite plain. There wyero worse ...

... 000 himself), and by Mr. Colman, who pre- 5 sented. land for the buildings. In closing the i speech his Royal 13ighiiess, speaking for the Princess of Wales, as well as for himself, added: A,-1 matt-rs affecting the welfare of hwspitalg engage our warmest ...