... increase; but the bulk of this impost is collected in the last three months of the financial year, so that it is impossible to speak with assurainee regarding this important branch of revenue until the last quarter has been completed. Miscellaneous revenue ...

... not an unusual thing I took no further notice. • It was; not unt,l next morning I fouud out what had happened. Did you ever speak to him about sleeping on the floor?—No, I knew lie was 'IL He used to tell me lie had not slept a wink all night. Very little ...

... grtii.g.aual them were spectators btiul. THE LATE RICE. Some of our contemporaries have shown rather questionable taste in speaking of the (iambit as if its inventor promoted the study .. this d6but merely for the sake of the laudatii, which the chess worid ...

... NEW YEAR'S DAY, 1916. Quit you like men— be strong: thus would one speak to England this New Year's Day. • History is judgment. and at this moment Ise English folk are living in the midst of an exceptional judgment. This war is testing 48, testing our ...

... keen. No doubt it proved the most difficult day that the banks are likely to experience under the early closing rule, and it speak@ well for their organisation that matters went off so smoothly as they did. Interesting Bank Amalgamations. Since the Manchester ...

... what lies at the other aide of this hill that looms so large in front of us. and they are not afraid. When we younger folk speak in this way our words carry little weight. We have our own opportunities, but they are not those of the old. Moreover, what ...

... Ordnance and Bowie,: Corps have one of the largem. and most ventures in orgeniatitien ever carried through in b‘ng/ish hiitory. I speak atter a second viait to one of the most interesting, if not the largeet, bates in France, and the increase both in scale and ...

... about 50 million dollars in the previou.s year and with 165 million dollars borrowed in London in the calendar year 1913. Speaking of the general financial position in Canada as affected by the war. Sir Frederick said : The strain is !PM , than could have ...

... Similarly. any Minister who show' himself a qualified impporter only of the Prim , Minister's proposals may look out for plain speaking from the back benches on his right. ASQUITH'S ASCENDANCE Mr. Asquith, I believe, is on the eve of . great personal triumph ...

... old favourite at the famous Saturday house dinners. There was only one member who ever gaye it during the period of which I speak; that was 1.. 1). Powles, who pasted away in 1911. His assumption of drunken gravity and bitter scorn on the part of Boswell ...

... little people in . this awful hole—with the country they have fought so hard for overrun from end to end. They can hardly speak to one without breaking down--even strong men among them. They look at one so eagerly and say: 'When will your men be up?' ...

... , and our womenfolk mourn the lees of their dear Our consolation is that victory is in sight, and I can proniipe you now—speaking for nivivelf and expressing the view of your Imperial master—that the war will not two years. The next few months will eee ...