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Indian Bank Suspends Operations.
0-letin, Oct. 5.
The Bank of Upper India, with headquartere at Merrut, hos enspended operations cwing to the withdrawal of deposits and the unsettlement caused by the wor The capital of the bank was £70,000 On June 30 the fixed deposits were £000,000. The bank did business mainly in the Upited Provinces-Router.
Sentries Killed on the Line. A verdict of accidental death was returned. at on irqueat at Newark on Private Thomas Bowers, aged forty-five, a National Reservist, who was killed by an express train on the Great Northern main line while goarding a bridge over the Trent. A similar verdict was returned.at an inquest on Private William Bailey, of the King's Liverpool Regiment (Territori le), who was killed on the railway between Surbiton and New Malden.
Pontoon Fire at Grimsby, A serious firo occurred at Grimsby last month on a portion
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of the most beautiful late-Gothic we inspected under the leadership Hele for Lord Montgomerie. choirstalls in Belgium, have not of its director, are in precisely Lady Montgomerie bas given sustained the slightest damage. the same condition as before the All necessary instructions, birth to a son and beirat Redbarn The facade of the beautiful library war. House, Irvine. The event has is seriously dam'ged, but can with a view to guarding against
theft, have been given. occasioned great rejoicing beyond doubt be restored.
"One-sixth of the city has "On our way back we stopped, throughout Ayrshire. Lord Mont- gomerie, who is on active service, been entirely destroyed. This in spite of a heavy downpour, at were mainly is heir to the Eglin'cn Estate, and comprises the whole of the rail- Hay. There we Lady Montgomerie is the daugh road street, the buildings on the interested in the Church of Notre ter of the Earl of Stir.
Place du Peuple, and the horses Dame, with its, beautiful Behle- eround the town hall and the bem prrtal in early-Gothic style, Church of St. Peter. The last and the handsome roze-window. The Press Association says named houses were purposely The four reliqnary chests former- There is official confirmation of dynamited by our brave miners ly in the church, treasury had the statement that Mr. Arthur hastily summoned by the Com- been, according to the statements Arquith, to of the Prime mandant, in order to prevent the of the priests, seat to Antwerp.” In in article on. "We Bar Minister, was in the trenches at town hall from catohing fire. Antwerp during the r.cent attack "I repest that all at treasures bariens and the Cathedral of by the Germans. Mr. Asquith and church possessions bave been Rheime," Prof. Richard Hamann, was recently enrolled with the saved. This is due mainly to the of Marburg, points out, in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. efforts of Lieutenant Thelema nu, Frankfurter Zeitung, how many casting a glance at the monumenta 118 millions; Marich, 108 mill- In an interview yesterday Staker Counsellor in the Itaiircad Min- German archmologiste and art of France and exploring the land ons; Leipzig, 100 millions; Hobert Lawrence, Royal Naval istry, who, together with a suba!- historians are under the arell of of Gothic art. This autumn there Wiesbaden, 60 millions; Nara- Bestre, B Fleetwood trawler tern officer, a student of art French art. A young scholar, were to have appeared, as a basis berg, 41 millions, Aix-le-Chapelle, engineman, who has just rett rned history, saved the contents of St. Erost Gall," he says, already for a new edition of the Desk 41 millione, ind Darmstadt, 23 YOU
one of the best maeler deutscher Kunst, 4,000 millions. with the men of the Naval Peter's Church, whose upper part anche rities on the subject, has views of French monuments of Following upon the raling of Brigade from Antwerp, said: was in flames. "One of the most popular and The wonderful paintings of found ekilful expression for the the Middle Ages. One of the the Prussian Minister of Public hard-working of the officera was Dierick Bouts, The Last Supper role of Normandy as the pro- scholars who accomplished this Instruction, which for the next the Premier's son. Lieutenant and the Martyrdom of St. Eras genitor of Gothic art. He is now labour, amid great difficulties, and semester excludes Russiau, Ser Asquith's firet thought is for the mar, have not sustained the least either being trained for military esen dangers owing to the vian, French,English,Belgian,onl comfort and feeding of his men. injury. The buildings destroyed, service against France or is hostility of obauvinistic natives Japanese students from Prussian all professors, He roughs it with the boys, who from which shots fell, were homes already in the field. Wilhelm was Dr. Jantzen, privat-docent at universities, think the world of him. He takes of well-to-do burghers, but with Pinder, the editor of the Halle. He is now likewise in lectorers, and assistants at un- Denteche Dome und der the field, and is perhaps trem-iversities and technical institutes his food with them and has the out artistic value." same as they have. The last Liege we visited all the deutsche Barock, has shown bling, not only for the stature of who are subjects of countries THE WHITE LIE by William Le Quaux. time I saw him he was drinking churches and art collections. The in two authoritative treatises the great cathedrals but for every row at war with Germany bave FACING FEARFUL PDDS by Josoph Church of St. Jacob, a magnificent bow. much the rhythm of stone of the village churches con- been stricken from, the teaching THE LETTER OF CONTRACT by Basil hia fea from a corned beef tin.
[Commonwealth Note Issue, late-Gothic edifice, with its hand- Nermanic art has influenced fided to his care, churches so Mr. Fisher has received somely painted groined vaulting, his style. He is tow an officer in important to us for the study of About thirty more German men authority to increase the Com- and its gorgeous decoration re- the field. The foremost student the beginnings of Gothic ait, and of distinction, who had been monwealth note issue from calling the Moresque style, has of French miniaturer, Count which certainly are mere exposed honoured by British institutions £12,000,000 to £14,000,000. remained untouched, and it in Vitztham, was on the point of to destruction than the great of learning, have renounced the titlesconferred upon them. Among especially gratifying to find that writing a history of medieval oathedrale."
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