The anxiety with which the international situation is regarded is reflected on all the Stock Markets of Europe. In many well-informed quarters it is stated that the cause of the nervousness does not arise so .much from the tension between Russia and Austria as from the danger of

SYDNEY, Tuesday. The death is announced of Louis Becke, the well-known novelist.—Reuter. [George Louis Becke was born at Port Macquarie, New South Wales, in 1848. His bestknown publications include Reef and Palm,” “His Native Wife," “Wild Life in Southern Seas,” The Jaiascobridg

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Among members of the there has no very marked change in Parliamentary form. Mr. Lloyd George has shown belter qualities of leadership in the later than the earlier part of the period, and, apart irom his obsession in the matter of land, fcs shown more conciliatory manner, and bi

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By TICKNER EDWARDES The Daily Telegraph says: This book has atmosphere—fresh, idyllic atmosphere, full of sunlight and soft breezes blowing across the Sussex Downs, and in this atmosphere the story achieves life. It is a natural idyll of the country, and its unsophisticated char