... FEWER SPEAK IT In Wales and Monmouthshire 656,000 persons out of a total population of 2} millions, speak Welsh compared with 715,000 ten years ago; one per cent, speak Welsh only. ...

... SPEAKING ON :S I never mince matters, sir; I always speak my mind. is a remark which very often falls front the lipe men who are given to tie blowing of their min trumpets on the imore of candeur and sincerity. Perhaps, if ouch teen —there are many ...

... VERSE-SPEAKING Dr George Caithness proposed “The Entertainers,” to which reply was made by Mr Archie Webster, Strathkinness. Tribute to Mine Host and Hostess was paid by Mr A. R. Steele, and Mr John M. Kinnear made reply. An extremely high standard of ...

... HAIG SPEAKS After 34 years, the secret diaries of Field-Marshal Earl Haig have been released for publication and the Daily Mail has secured exclusive rights to print extracts from these illuminating documents before their appearance in book form. Of historic ...

... Speak up! TOASTS and speeches come after the meal — and ideally, they should be short, sincere and to the point. Speakers who are used to standing up in public and who feel at ease are a joy to listen to, and can get away with aslightly longer speech ...

... Public speaking contest LOCAL Rotary Clubs are to stage a public speaking competition for secondary schools next month. Madras College, St Andrews, Bell-Baxter High Schools, Cupar and Waid Academy, Anstruther, will compete for the Waid Academy Centenary ...

... COUNCILLORS TO SPEAK? Mr A. W, Macdougall supported the Idea of holding more meetings, but added they had been held back by the state of their finances. It was a hard job increasing their membership, for it meant practically a house-to-hou& Visitation ...

... GAELIC SPEAKING Of those enumerated in the county, 1360 were stated to have a knowledge of Gaelic, and of these all but one was able to speak English well Gaelic, the exception being a widow aged 89, who was born in Perthshire. Of the Gaelic speakers ...

... AUSTRALIA SPEAKS, ** Is there man or woman who can contemplate the present relation* the Empire without alarm —Mr Dkakin, ex-feu-.T»I Premier, at Melbourne, I7th November 1904. *1 abov* queatiou vfa* asked by 1), akin, in addreeaing f, meetiiij; of Melbourne ...

... THE SPEAKING VOICE. Miiss Edna Jackson, who member the Executive Committee of the Scottish National Dictionary and of the Society of Sjioech Therapists, is giving a practical course designed to help students to achieve audibility, Intelligibility, and ...

... AN ARTIST SPEAKS JACK KNOX is not only Howson, who was one of Scotland’s most Glasgow-trained. accomplished artists, And Jack Know has spewhose work was recently cjalised in recent years in toured in a major Scottish one of the most traditional Arts Council ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING He urged farmers to get down to some plain speaking with MPs and Parliamentary candidates of every political colour and tell them what remained to be done to create conditions in which it would be possible to do three things: First, to ...