prosecuted.

The SPEAKEK took the Chair at noon. Mr. W. C. Bridgeman (C., Oswestry) presented bulky petition from the inhabitants of the dio cese of St. Asaph’s against the Education Bill. Amid Unionist cheers and the laughter of Ministerialists the bon. member, the request of the Speaker, s

Lord Peel was undoubtedly the representative this middle element that they must carry with them. (Applause.) There was no one remedy for the great problem. Many desired Sunday closing, the earlier closing of publichouses, a great reduction in the number of public-houses, and a r

•‘Municipal Ownership in Great Britain.” By Hu7o li. Meyer. Macmillan. Os. . . *• Municipal Studies and International Erlendsnip. By Henry I.unn. Marshall and Son. s** Municipal enterprise is the subject of both these volumes, though the two authors approach the question from ra

| 67,'i SToritmillXiK MYSTERY. DISAPPEARANCE FOLLOWS THREAT MURDER. remarkable affair is occupying tlic police in the Stourbridge and Brierley Hill districts regard to the mysterious disappearance of young unmarried woman named Caroline Pearson. and (hey arc searching the whole n

The the ** DAILY REPORT.’’ containing an list Rortori.*?. Viramgwi. Country and Swside and Honse* Let for stmimer month**, at rents in many low 11 a week tor really pretty httk‘ place*, will be forwarded poet free mentioning the name of thhnoper to Ertatt' Edrtot. "Daily Report,

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Mindful of the debt they owe to the work of the Red Cross, the delegates assembled for the tieneva Convention meeting have telegraphed, through Professor Rudolf Muller, expression of their deep sympathy and respectful regard to M. ]{enri Dunaiit. the illustrious founder of the R

since 1902. Was formerly Private Secretary to the late Mr. Gladstone. STORMY INQUIRY.