... A Pernicious Rumour. We are asked to contradict statements that have been circulated in the district in regard to Mr. Robert Mond, J. P. and the employes at Combs Bank. In Westerham and elsewhere the rumour has been current that half of the employes had ...

... least of false reports when he spoke in the House of Lords on Tuesday. He believed these were attribidabfe to idle rumour. ft was the spy question he had in mind. _ Spies are all around, be said. and I am inclined to think that the law may have to be ...

... and we have no doubt—judging from what the men themselves have raid—that those who listened to him were convinced that the rumour was entirely unfounded, even if they had doubts before. But on Thursday, to his great surprise and annoyance, he received ...

... be executed as a spy. A Thascinl News despatch mentions a tragic sequel to the published story of Lieutenant Rowan's secret mission to Gomez. Lieutenant Rowan is now believed to have been captured by the Spaniards, and shot as a spy. NUMBER OF THE INSURGENTS ...

... Dick. The Right Hon. Richard Seddon, New Zealand's talking Premier. Is the subject of the cartoon in the current Fair and Spy has caught him in • characteristic attitude. Mr. Seddon was born in Lanceahire, and emigrated to the Antipodes at the age of ...

... crankpin or other bearings. It consists of a round nut haring a collar and a separate brass cap, inside of wl.i, it is a coiled spying These nuts can be on or off the holt, the same as ordinary nuts, the mode or operation in putting them on being quits simple ...

... had it not been brought home to them that the neighbourhood of Palermo was in a decidedly unsettled state. For some time rumours had been dying about of an intended coup, and the Viceroy, though outwardly cool and unconcerned, had expressed a belief that ...

... that of Heaven, and that Dinah at least had been seen stealing back from the mysterious rites in the forest, where it was rumoured voudou worship was secretly practised. Little mysterious bundles of charms lay in Dinah's chest side by side with a big ...

... Gertrude, enjoined the old woman, in a loud whisper. He looks too mud like the Evrenionds of Wilcbeater to suit me. He may be a spy of Lord Leonard's. Be on your guard. With this caution the old woman withdrew, and Miss Deane then approached her guest. She ...

... of the young ladies. I wish the strike would end. • said Era, thinking hard things of the miserly mine-owner, who, it was rumoured, had sworn that he would starve the curs, meaning his workmen, into submission. I don't know whether the men or Mr. Fraytaan ...

... out of orbit. He could believe nothing of rumours so contradictory; yet one or other might be true. The question was, which? A distant railway whistle reminded him that he could at once verify one of those rumours. He would try to see from some hidden corner ...

... Would her life really be in danger if she were to stay ? Well, the life of • man who played the double part of patriot and spy would not be safe for a day if he were found out. Whether the Brotherhood, which is • 'ferret society of Italian patriots, would ...