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that by a scheme of this sort they would really deal with the 

 unemployed difficulty as it confronted us from day to day? 

 Such employment was the last kind of employment suitable 

 for the skilled or partially skilled workman, who was generally 

 the one to be in difficulties. 



Subsequently Mr Keir Hardie's amendment was rejected by 

 231 votes to 151. 



St Louis Exhibition. 

 Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society's Exhibit. 



The Exhibit sent by the Society consisted of twelve photo- 

 graphs of North American Coniferce grown in Scotland. The 

 photographs, for which a Silver Medal was awarded, were 

 enlargements from half-plate negatives, and measured 32 ins. by 

 22 ins. within the frames, which were of oak. The following 

 list gives the names, dimensions, etc., of the trees of which 

 photographs were sent, and the estates on which they grow: — 



