The steamship was sailing from Scotland to Kingston Jamaica via New Orleans when

The steamship was sailing from Scotland to Kingston, Jamaica, via New Orleans when it foundered and ran aground in a gale off the Isle of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides. While there was very little real acting from the principals - the love duet looked like a wrestling match - the force of the concerted finales came across well, with an astonishing blaze of daylight (lighting designer: Alan Burrett) on the eruption of the women into the Council chamber at the end of Act 2. She was found to have chipped a near-fore knee bone, will undergo an operation shortly, and be out of action for the rest of the season.Lord Carnarvon's only comfort is the tradition that says misfortunes come in threes.. 'The doctor said he had to take some skin from my rib to close the wounds on my arm and he did a great job And I discovered afterwards that he was a Serb.

Much has been made of the Government's use of Public Interest Immunity certificates; these alleged that evidence in the Government's possession, which the defence wanted, was too secret to be disclosed in open court. Baroness Denton said she is seeking to have the regulations eased.. Provisional results show that it made a trading profit of more than pounds 3m in October.In his last formal announcement before retiring as Post Office chairman at the end of the year, Sir Bryan Nicholson repeated his pledge to keep letter prices frozen until at least next April.'Prices will continue to be held as long as possible in the new financial year,' he added.Sir Bryan also announced that the reliability of letter deliveries reached record levels in the first half, with 91.5 per cent of all first- class mail arriving the next day. This usually happens the next day.The overnight delay is giving rise to growing problems as the time allowed to pay for shares is falling.Under current arrangements in the UK, investors have up to four weeks to pay for shares they have bought but this delay is set to fall to 10 days soon after the launch of Taurus, an electronic system for replacing share certificates with electronic records, and then to three days.The payment period is already down to three days in a number of overseas markets, making same-day confirmation especially useful for international share traders.The three systems will compete for business but backers have agreed the specification for a link between them. But in 1939 Slovakia broke away and became a puppet Fascist state. Birthplace of the English Hymnal.Appeal: pounds 50,000, for restoration of the original 1873 Hill organ.

Born in 1946, Peter Reading has published several acclaimed collections, including C (the horrors of cancer), Perduta Gente (life among down-and-outs), and, earlier this year, Evagatory (terminal anxiety about the planet). A peace settlement between Israel and a nascent Palestine would begin to address the evils of 1948 and 1967. An interviewer recently asked me how I managed to spend so much time in bed The answer was obvious I just lie there.'(Photograph omitted). WE HAVE managed to botch the redrawing of the takeover rules for ITV companies - just as we botched the last licensing round; just as we will probably botch the reform of the BBC charter in 1996. It may not them a place against England on Saturday, but these All Blacks regard this as no less an opportunity than the others regarded the Scotland game.