... The Press, contributes several pa^es of journalistic reminiscences which are illustrate 1 and exceptionally interesting. Speaking of the Russo-Turkish campaign, he says :— ' ; The narrow- est escape I ever had occurred during the battle of Yeni-Saghra ...

... a higher spirit or a better way. No one can aver that the Bishop reserves his rebukes for a particular set of men, for he speaks of the Church having set before the public eye the familiar spectacle of bodies of Englishmen desperately determined to ...

... sore straits through that cause alone. In the exceptional circumstances of the campaign our troops being engaged by men who speak their tongue, and can repeat their orders to create confusion, this well might be relaxed. The Boers expect to win, and they ...

... New Year's a*essage t.i hi> diocese, the Bishop of London writes : We cannot shut our ears to the vt,ice o£ God. which is speaking to us as a nation. Ii rebukrs our pride and our self-conceit; it warns us that we must strive, more than we hava be.-n striviu* ...

... Chamber of Commerce, dealing with the great progress which the German Empire had made during the past century, Herr Eiffe, speaking on behalf of the firms trading with South Africa, asked whether the Chamber of Com- merce was doing all that was required ...

... garrison duty in their place ah uU the Leinatcrs be removed WELLINGTON. Dec 39 The Right Hon R J Seddon. Presuur f New Zealand, speaking at Wetland •*• in* Transvaal War, -iaid that fighting Men **rm not fault-finders, and at the present juactaa* the former ...

... were animated with but one feeling and that was that he would have a long, happy, aud prosperous life. He could only say, speaking on behalf of the members of the Association, that if Lord Castlereagh only en- deared himself to the people of the neighbourhood ...

... will be p*r- formed, md in which ,t nutu'ter of enimeui ~twtm» will take part, fhursday will be a .vuulu. amid) day—.*.) to speak. At the morning meeting Mr. W. H Commings, ?? RAM., who ie lej preside, will give a paper on Pitch : Past. PTesealh and Future ...

... Cape, and knows some- tiling of the Eoers, of when* he has no very high opinion. He has a Mounted Infantry certificate, whicn speaks in praiseworthy terms of his quali- fications. It is as a Mounted Infantrvinao that he hopes to be employed when at the front ...

... reflected by the wearers of the Queen's uniform. It is impossible for anyone who was present at the Modder River engagement to speak in too laudatory terms of the conduct of the soldiers who participated in the battle, and that is the reason which impels me ...

... country a vast deal of enthusiasm was created by the Czar's proposal ; so much of that sentiment, indeed, that no one could speak against it at the time without risk of insult. Yet, though most of us kept discreetly dark, we knew all the while how forced ...

... receiver for wireless telegraphy that is two thousand times more sensitive than the so- called Coherer, of the Marconi system Speaking of the discovery Professor Fessenden says: -We realise that we have not yet begun to see the limit. Marconi has demon- strated ...