NOT FORCE, BUT GENTLE PERSUA lON. SOUTH AFRICAN MINISTER AND THE EXILES. Cape Town, Wednesday. In the House Assembly Mr. N. J. De Wet, Minister of Justice, declared, in reply to a series of questions in connection with the deportat. .»i, that force or violence had been used in t

Devlin, seated behind him, offensively lemßirked *• You ought to be the last person bring charges against anybody.” How insulting that interjection was intended to be can best be understood whan it is remembered that the , ~ , Marconi Committee mud was slung at the Scene 1": The

That was a very subtle and important distinction made by Mr. Kipling to the Royal Geographical Society last night, between the first-class man and the very first-class second-class man.” He succeeded in defining a difference that may be noticed in nearly every walk of life, that

CHIEF LINERS. (FROM LLOYD'S AND SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.) P. Mid O. —Macedonia. Loudon-Botubuy, Unionist leaders the House Lords met; arrived Gibraltar 17th; Mongolia, Loudon_ Durehase of Americaax Marooni shares. I R.M.S.P.—Amazon,, for Southampton, Visooniit Midletoai and Lord Rober

TO CHANCE. Ludlow, Wednesday. Beautiful weather was experienced at Ludlow to-day and there was large attendance. Seven the eight runner® for the Selling Hurdle Race were becked but the outsidesr the party a 25 to 1 chance won by a neck. Details;— HURDLE « «of«. TwomUea JAIII TO

Berwick police and coastguard are today the Danish Daisy, Ims arrived frcmAJeierß with three men to deserters from the French Army. Two in triform, and with bayonets, had Md■JL . ,^ ftr the heat forced them out. t third was not in uniform, but had Army was found concealed in a b

CONGO.* SOME EAITHPUL RECORDS. Since the proper study of mankind is man/’ he who, like Mr. Weeks, accumulates with infinite patience material for the anthropologist must be counted as rendering a notable service. For thirty years Mr. Weeks has lived among the Congo tribes, and h

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Sydney (N.S.W.), Wednesday. The shipping trade at Sydney is reaching such huge dimensions as a result of the prosperous conditions prevailing throughout the State that a special effort has to be made by the Harbour Trust to meet the demands for wharfage accommodations. It has be

Court I.—Before Sir Samuel Evans, President—At 10.30.—Special Juries.—Hardwick, £ v Hardwick, (King’s Proctor showing cause)—Muller, M v Muller, A G—Muller v Muller aid Wilson, part heard. Notice to Jurors (Probate and Divorce) —Special Jurors summonan for Thursday morarjg v. il