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ENGLAND AND GERMANY

... morning s issue. Do you consider that fair journalism ? leaving out of question the old saying, De mortuis nil nisi bonum.” I speak rather feelingly on this question, having had the honour ot serving several years in the German Navy, and making a good un ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1900
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE LANGUAGE QUESTION IN SOUTH AFRICA

... from anything which can be conjured up in South Africa. We know how charmed De Tocqueville was to hear the Canadian nuns speaking or' net-n bon pire George Quatre, as the ladies of St. Cyr might have spoken of Louis Quatorze, and how fas- cinated he ...

Published: Tuesday 03 July 1900
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1712 | Page: 10 | Tags: News 

would be a Rood thing for him to arrange a meeting with President Krugerand •ee if it was not possible

... tolerably confident that the first suggestion came from the British authorities in South Africa. It was in the days of which I speak—and I am afraid to a far later period—a fixed article of belief among all our British officials on their first - arrival in ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1900
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A CHAT WITH MR. JAMES EAST

... the Daily Ncws. A-axt came what proved to be one of Mr East's happiest engagements with Mr and Mrs Kendal in America, and he speaks enthusiastically of their kindness and the trouble Mrs Kendal will take with young actors who do not think they know everything ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1105 | Page: 13 | Tags: News 

THE WAR

... his niche in the Temple of H History as the author of the most . bloated Budget in all our records, feels compelled when he speaks in - public to deliver himself concerning the war in South Africa. There is i nothing more remarkable in such 50 utterances ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1900
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1063 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

AFRICAN WAR

... to ai people who speak English. There are a . substantially 500,Otl,000 persons speak- th Ilg colloquially one or another of the th ten or twelve chief modern languages, and of these about 25 per cent., or th 125,000,000 persons, speak English. up About ...

Published: Tuesday 29 May 1900
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 2837 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL NOTES

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1900
Newspaper: Ipswich Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 1118 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE NEW EDUCATION CODE

... us a grant, speak- ing from memory in the matter, of from probably £3 to 4.-and probably d in one instance £5-per pupil teacher, I I whereas under the new eode-we get t d only £2 per pupil teacher. .: ( r Then let us take the schools, speak- c ing generally ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1900
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 987 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ST. GEORGE'S DAY BANQUET AT NEW YORK

... cem4ent- - -: vcr:w-eenl Great Britain and the United -rer the necessity for those two- contrie-s ;° . lr- uited Mr. Dae-in, speaking of Wa-2r, referredtto the friendlinesS -f - ov Eanc~ls-nd towards the United States - L-y>il'J-Arnericaa War. Be hoped there ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1900
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 291 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

THE CHEMICAL CLEANING COMPANY

... However, of the actual Notting-hill factory it is not our intention to speak so much as of the West-end offices and of Mr Harris. By the way, Mr Harris had, perhaps, better speak on his own account. What do we do ? Everything pretty well in the cleaning ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1151 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

Rural Notes

... the farmer who expects thirty bushels and speaks of the Government bushel in London (60 lb.) means exactly ?? lb. to the acre, while at Lynn or Norwich the man expecting twenty-nine bushels, but speaking of the Norfolk bushel of 63 lb., really means ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1900
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 821 | Page: 30 | Tags: News 

LONDON'S MANAGERS

... travelling between England and America these past fourteen years, buying and selling and producing plays, and, figuratively speak- ing, knows the ropes. He, too, like Mr Farrington, began life as an actor, and he baa likewise had some acquaintance with ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1900
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1141 | Page: 13 | Tags: News