"New York, Friday.—An elaborate programme of welcome will be escorted to the City Hall, which has been prepared. The British Mission has been strikingly decorated for the occasion with innumerable British and Allied flags."—Liverpool Post.
We are not anxiously awaiting a snapshot of Mr. Balfour in his latest costume.
"The vessels are at present under construction by the Kawashi Dockyard Company, Limited, of Kobe, and realised from £42 to £42 per ton deadweight."—Poverty Bay Herald.
A careful calculation will show that the average cost was almost exactly forty guineas.
"Several rhubord recipes have come in this week, so that the reader who esquired for recipe for rhubard jelly is supplied with this, and recipes for other rhubarb dainties as well."—Edmonton Journal (Canada).
If John Gilpin were to "dine at Edmonton" (Canada) he would come in for some nice new vegetables.