... waterworks, and tramways. On this debt they vere paying on March 31st last an average interest of £2 1is. 8d. per cent. Speaking of the tram- ways, he urged that, when widening streets for tram- way purposes, a proportion of the cost ought to be charged ...

... -Mes-rs. Billson and Whitley yesterday addressed out- door neetings of workers during the dinner interval. M~r. Whitler. speaking outside the gasworks, urged that the straight point for the electors to consider was, Were they in Halifax going to spea ...

... of weigili. judg- mnent, tact, and ability, like their President and rnmny others, -was a source of benefit, commercially speaking, to the whole ntation. It did not tend to promote in- dustrial strife or to engage in those terrible struggles between capital ...

... be for ever maintoined. (Siged) JOSEPH CH IBERLAIN. The WestIminster Gazette states that General Sir James Hill-Johtesa speaking at a, Unionist meeting at Swansea, was reported to have claimed support for the Unionist candidate on the ground that e knew ...

... then a second time called upon to pay the .arrears up to 1839, amounting to 20,010f. They then rappealed to the two English-speaking Ambassadors, 1whereupon Sir E. Monson and General Porter jointly ipetitioned the Government, asking that these chapels 3 ...

... POLITICS AND SOCIETY. LEzDS. Friday, October 19th. Speaking at Bingley last week, Mr. A. J. Balfour ridiculed Mr. Hastings Duncan's plea that the Liberal party's record entitled' it to take up the subject of army reform. The First Lord of the Treasury ...

... suidden and serious relapse on Saturday, but. vesterday's bulletin said she nad made a wonderful raflv. Mr. John IMorley, speaking at the annual dinner of the Palmrerston Club at Oxford. on Saturday night, said we had done irreparable wrong in the Trarlwvaal ...

... jolly good fellow, he replied, speaking with a spasmodic rapidity that showed him not a man of words. I am highly honoured by your flattering reception, he said. ' I f am only one of the Atidns family, and I cannot speak I to this comnpany as I should ...

... Office Contracts, wiho passed no censure on wvhat had rbeen done in the matter. As for Kvmnonhs' deliveries at the time I speak of, they were at the top of the tree for quality, as is admittoc1 bh Colonel Raddon. They had recently had a good deal of trouble ...

... therefore, consist of twenty members. Summonses have been issued for the first meeting of the new Cabinet. Lord Rosebery, speaking in Edinburgh last night, after a lecture by Mr. J. H. Choate, American Ambas- sador, said Abraham Lincoln must remain one ...

... the agricultural ninterest by advocating the adoption of a systerm of oc- operation amongst farmers. Professor Steggall, speaking at the Church Congress in Newcastle, on the question of the housing of the poor, said he believed that the next century, ...

... any member of it to speak disrespectfully of his leaders. If Lord Salisbury and his colleagues have received a severe handling in the journals professing Tory principles, we know tbat it was because they were driven into plain speaking. The Chan- cellor ...