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...future bride is a set of sables, composed of the rarest and finest pelts. The blushing bridegroom will present his prospective spouse with a bracelet adorned with gems. From an unknown source comes a cheque for ?2,500, which is now being distributed in London, Glasgow, York, Cardiff and Belfast for the purpose of giving poor children a good time on the wedding...
...State. Like the treaty between England and Sinn Fein this settlement was signed quite suddenly at a crisis of Irish affairs. Since the speeches of Collins and De Valera, in a sort of Lincoln-Douglas series, early in March, conditions have grown steadily worse, particularly in Limerick and about Belfast, until finally they assumed almost the dimensions of a reign of terror, during which the Extremists and the Ulsterites rapidly extended their influence at the expense of the Dail Eireann forces...
...Dublin transport workers' strike. It has marked as important and as definite an epoch in the industrial history of England as did the great dock-workers' strike of the nineties, which heralded the birth of the new unionism. Its effect has been to make Catholics and Ulstermen, in Belfast and Dublin, forget their religious and racial animosities, and join in the struggle for industrial emancipation...
...Bryce, who is a strong Home-Ruler, was born in Belfast in 1838, and is a graduate of Oxford. In 1870 he was returned to Parliament for Tower Hamlets, in 1885 for Aberdeen, and in 1886 he became Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Mr. Gladstone's government. In 1892 he became chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster. He is the author of "The American Common-wealth" and "The Holy Roman Empire," as well as of other books on history...
Robert A. Blair, P.G., of Belfast, Ireland, is 23 years old. Before entering Princeton he studied at the Royal University of Ireland and at Geneva College. At the latter institution he received second prize in the senior-junior oratorical contest. He is a member of the American Whig Society...