... OACrAIN D. DA-N, the well-knewn aremas Obaunel swimmer, will attempt on Saturday, Weather porrit cting, to swim from Hastings Pier to .Esatbhrna, a dintance of about tweaty miles. ' Ie will enter the water at 1030 a.m., and it l ex. poated tbe tank will ...

... FROML HASTINGS TO CHERBOURG BY B I LLOON. The following is an interesting account of the aeronautic voyage made with Mr Simmons last week :- Started from Hastings Cricket-field at 3&20 p.m, Th! rsday, September 13. Balloon took a dip nearlyinto the field ...

... froin the War Office, in Boo, na this case there were only six, rend in some piers five mier ft and four. These ore lasirer together and tort st connection mande from pier to pier by gunnels at con Ig each end and baulks in the middle. The bariels are ...

... deepen the hike .ts area inclosed by this pier, anl to construct an inner whi las pier along its west and south sides, The deepening is upc 3r,' at present only partially being executed, and the imner mo' ad pier Is as ye' in futiro. The area, however, ...

... indicate that anything unusual had Y occurred, and they asked the people on the pier tif they were really in earnest. Receiving a .A-eOly'iil the e.firmative, they rowtid in hot haste d ?? the spot to which the crowd pointed, and soon found the pleasure boat ...

... this no included the' £10,000 which would be required lot to build the brick piers. He could not say at. positively that the £356,000 included the in cost of testing the piers . now standing. Undoubtedly the traffic was now seriously interfered Y- with ...

... collided withs the pier head as she ivsus entering the dorc. The vessel carried no cargo, and the injuries to of her hull, which were below the ivater lino, could Val not be estimated at the tune of telegraphig thc The granite work of tho pier head sasw, hosV ...

... Sabbath forenoon, and at the close of his sermon he introduced the newly-ordained minister, Rov. Jarme Hastings, li.A., to the congregation. Mr Hastings ocdupied the pulpit in the ovening MONTROSE.-SAt.rATION4Aslr.-On Sunday nornn ing a contingent of the ...

... by, the clair'man, Rev. H. E. Ulchie, Stonehaven ; Rev. T. Lawrri, Laurecee kirk; Rev. G. Williamns, Ferrydenl; and Pier. J. Hastings, Kiuneff. Duings the evening sacred pieces were snung by the choir, under the lcadersnIP of Mr Davidson, as also a quartette ...

... saddress gi could only have been taken from a reporb of some hi local paper of the following day and transmitted in mn hot haste to Aberdeen. Like many such hurried re- hi ports, it entirely misrepresents whit I said. That N r scepticism ought not to be ...

... -w Wil3 b tig, 'off the pier at Yamout' a. little-ld named Fena wee , 'overoomo by thb wavesiand uacked under., A corn. Io. plete 'stranger, curiously enough bearisg the sae i name, deffected a6 gallant ?? byI eaplnglfroul e pier, fully- dressed. Mr Fenn's ...

... the additional prospect when the new pier is t a- built of having the, means of accommodating, for load- c as ing and unloading purposes, vessels in 27 feet of water a er at low water in ordinary spring tides. The pier, which has already been completed, ...