... ABOUT TO SPEAK. Very silly, Reg. She won't have you. Why not ? My dear Reg, Joy's not going to marry yet. She's not out to marry and make a fellow happy —now. Some day ? I don't know. A good many days. Meanwhile, she wants her own experience ...

... PREMIER TO SPEAK FOR IRELAND. Sworn a Privy Councillor in Dublin—More Conferences. MEANING OF NEW MOVE. When Mr. Asquith returns to the House of Commons he may, for the time being at all events, appear there in the guise of the official representative ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING. I 1.1 T'S this rot about Christmas? There's always someone telling us we mustn't enjoy ourselves. It seems to me we boys are the only ones to keep laughing. I intend to do that in spite of all. What ' help could we give to the. war by ...

... SPEAKING RESULTS. Commencing with the.year 1897. with deaths of children. we begin to tumble downstain. to use a homely expression; in 1899 the downward progress reaches to 5.90. Then an unexplained rise to 389. This ends the unwelcome high-tide period ...

... RUPERT SPEAKS. I N the forest during the journey up to Narakota Olive had lain awake o' nights wondering when Rupert Heathcote would speak again of that scene which had taken place between them on the evening of her wedding day. Since coming to Narakota ...

... SPEAKING PICTURES - The ERIC WILLIAMS SPEAKING PICT UR ES.''—Address, Secretary, 2 Springcroft Avenue, East Finchley, N. 804A27 .—__ ...

... FACTS SPEAK. The VALUE of a 8 SMALL ADVT. in the “STREATHAM NEWS. Mr. P. says: ‘I advertised two bicycles, lady’s and gemt.’s, in The Streatham News. Both were sold before 11 o'clock on the day of issue of the paper, and from the spplications received ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING. It has pleased the Rathkeale District Council to indite grotesquely insolent letter to Lord Dunraven, because has advocated the introduction of conscription into Ireland, but we fancy that by now they must be sorry they put pen to paper ...

... LITERALLY SPEAKING. Uncle Move aspired to the elective office of justice of the peace in the black bottom part of the town. One bar there was to his preferment he could neither read nor write. His master advised him to go to the commie Omer of electrons ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING. ATHENS, Sunday. ■' Kiryx,” the organ of the Venizelist party, continuing its comments on the Royal interview, speaks of the blindness of the present Government, which is leading Greece to ruin and to pro-revolutionary conduct. It attributes ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING. SIR EDWARD welcomed the measure promised by the Government, and said that if Mr. Asquith had made such an appeal to the nation at any time since the beginning of the war it would have met with an imm ed iate response. SIR JOHN SIMON contended ...

... STRAIGHT SPEAKING. M. STLERMER’S DEFEAT IN THE DUMA. The inner meaning of the change of Premier in Rnuia is not yet clear. Reuter quotes the newspapers as dwelling un the failure of M. Stuenner to revive the old bureaucratic traditions, with the isolation ...