... SXR GREYFRIARS 0RUUCH QUESTION. A VPRY disgraceful proposal has been made to the Aberdeen Town Council to commit a gross breach of faith by refusing to carry out the agreement to rebuild Greviriars Parish Church on the new site nearer Queen Street. The Town Council entered into an arrangement to defray the cost of erecting a new church on condition that the University authorities provided a ...

... AABERDEEN UNIVERSITY; I PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION RESULTS. r The resultls of the preliminary exarmina- ieons recently held in arts, medicine, ind science in connection with Aberdeen Iniversity were announced yesterday forenoon. It is impossible to ascertain the number who alre concluded the exam inations in science and Arts. as a candidate can sit for subjeots in these ji different periods; but ...

... m UI0CIP LISATIOFRY 1UN AMUKC. i Tian A'brdeen Branch of the Sociai Deno- cratic Federation, which is to run at least one candidate in the ensuing Municipal Election, has drawn txp a comprehensive programme for the consideration qf cpnoidmta sa4 the public. Naturally, the first item on the pro- gramme is payment of members of the Town Council. The members of the Democratic Federation do not ...

... 'Clu C1 Iourt. l~~ ez I i & EBALTIORAL CASTLE, September 7th. Divine service was conductod at the Castle yesterday morning in the presence of the Queen and the Royal Family and: household. The Very Reverend Professor Story, D.D., one of Her Majesty's chaplains, ofliciated. Iu the afternoon the Queen drove out t with Princess Henry of B.-tteliberg and . Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. ...

... FRASERBURGR FEUARIS' I MANAGERS. I A special meeting of this body wan held yes- terday-Baillie Dickson in the chair. On the motion of Baillie Macoonnachie, a resolution of regret at the death of Mr Adam Blackball, one of the managers, and a member of the Town Council, was recorded in the minutes of the board, and a copy ordered to be sent to his relatives TrE NEW SUROGH BYR LAWS. The Clerk ...

... STONERAVEN PRIMROSE LEAGUE. SPEECH BY MR WM. WHITELAW, EX-M.P. The annual social entertainment in connection with the Stonebaven Habitation of the Primrose league was held last evening in the Towuhall, Atonebavens Ae on previous ocoasions, the hall wa~ts arranged in drawing room form. The einal tables placed rot various points contained seine pretty plant or flower, ent from the gar- dens of ...

... IME T'RADE'S UNION COxVC4EBSS. Timd twenty-ninth annual session of the Trades Union Congress commenced yester- dany, Edinburgh being the place of meeting this year. Amid the cbanges that have marked the history of labos' Oorganisation during the period since it waxy instituted the PArliament of Labour has sometimes had lively assemblies, but the expectation this year is that the session vill ...

... TRI DYNAMIITE PLOT. [ , )I frU-ltn >ei - 11 I THE RELEASE OF TYNAN. (DALUIEL's TELRORAUL.) Paris, Thursday. - Commenting upon the refusal of the French Government to consent to Tynafn's extradition, the Figaro says :-It might have been much to our political interests te please tho English authorities in this matter. The French Government acted, however, solely according to the higher rules ...

... Ellon School Board. SlR,-S9me time since I saw a paragraph in your columns relating to the School Boerd and the addition of a new wing to Eselemont School- house. I suppose the ratopayera will have- to pay the piper as usual. ItsnoIms strange that a capital expenditure of this nature should be sanctioned by a board about to make its final exib. The schoolhouse aT Eslemient is quite large ...

... I ' TJ5gT0PY OF THE SCoTTISH CHURca. By W. Stephen, rector of St Augustine's, Dum- ;acton. Vol. It. (Edinburgh . David Douglas, 1896.)-We give a warm, though womewhat tardy, welcome to Mr Stephen's 5econd volume of the History of the Scottish Church. Like its predecessor, it i an eminently readable book. Many of its facts are new to the English speaking world, the whole treatment is ...

... Tit~ E1.\ I 1Y VREStS. To fur iiier ill uitstrtt to le exceptimonal posi- t ion of thr. ' A h,'rklee I 'tirtiul, ad to show that tilt evollit ioi theory of tilt' Siur- vitdl if tho ti1t ust appjlites a., largrly to the tie spzkpr world 4im to t hings iii general, wye st hljuin tbl shlow ii~ t~he datma, ii rracgedl i' atitl it do~dr when ll 11Otin r ist intg dalesoon. 200 in i imibe 1, ...

... WHY WOMEN ABE ATTHACE.- - I WHY WOME.N ARE ATTRAC.TIVE. Why in one woman attractive and another not It isn't entirely a question of age, or features, or intellect. The most admirable and attractive thins' about an attractive ,vomian in her womanliness. Everybody admires a womanly woman, She must have health, of course, because without it she would lama the brightnessm of her eyem, the fullness ...