... CEaIISTmAs i LEEDs. Chri stm Day i.,eeds was favoured with aslight4 sbament-ine ?? of the .weather we have bee1 periencisgof late, When day dawned the fog was not quite so-terrible as it had been th&day before. Thrsday was nearly- as bad. as Wednesday. aid proved quite- as disastrous to the busimess of the town. The choking and noxious fog ifilled the streets with bl es and the density never ...

... AS6ICThTUL=AL REVIEW OF TEE WE=. A period of rainy weather appears to have set in, >j :and this time the greatest downfall has been where as it was most wanted-rn the southern half of Eng- or lend. It hns done an immense amount of good, ]o though the hop-growers now need a return of settled Ix sunny weather, for the quality of their produce will pe suffer if muoh more rain falls. Potato ...

... LEEDS SCHOOL BOARD READ TEACHERS' I - - ASSOCIATION. The annual dinner of this association took place on Fri- da.y evening. at the Queen's Hotel, Mr. ?? J. Price pre. siding. Anongst those present were Principal Boding- 4 ton, of the Yorkshire College; Mr. J. H. Wurtzburg, chairman of the School Board; M1r. A. G. Ieard and Mr. A. Owen, Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, the Revs. N. Egerton ...

... THE LENIDS EERCURY. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TrH, S896. -! Further fighting in Macedonia is reported. Lord Russell of Killowen and his party left ' Ottawa yesterday for Quebec. A telegram from Kassaia to tlhe Tribuna reports that the Klhaiifa hal died at Khartoum. Spain is sending two battalions of marines to the Philippines, and also additional reinforcements I to Cuba. The general results of ...

... NMLEYNT SUDAY SCHOOLS. The committe of the Wesleyan Methedist Sunday-? schelool Union, whose headi-quarters a-re in London, will' shortly issue their twenty-first annual re-port. It cont- tains full end accurate information of this flourishing department -of -the Meothodist church, &and, in addition, supplies particulars. Of muck lendJ interest~. Eat district furnishes its can report andff ...

... LOCAJL Al GENTERAL P OLICECOURT RIOT EDE NGS. The case arising out of the Leeds building trade dispote, in which Jchn Judge, brirklayer's labourer, of Cupley-street, Bank, was charged, withi ineiting a crowd to riot in Albien-street, Leeds, on September 1st last, and also with intimkdation, was again before thre Stipendiary ?? (Mr. C. M. Atkinson), at dile 'Cicy Police-coint, yesterday. In the ...

... LORD S1ISBU1BY AT DOm iwADENSmP OF THE CINQUE PORTS.;. IMPORTANT SPEECH ON THE SITUATION IN CRETE, Lord Salisbury was duly installed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports at Dover on Saturday, amrid popular rejoicings. This function dates iu history even beyopd the times when the allied toens were granted special rights and privileges by Royalty in return for an undertaking to provide the Reigning ...

... YORESBrIRE I.L.P. FEDERATION. The annuaI conference of the Y orkshire IndependeniA Labour Party's Federation ',as held at the Hglitown- Clu, -Livereedge, cn Saturday. There was a good attendance of delegates including a couple of lady. representatives. Comrade T. Shaw (Shefield), the ;president. occupied the chair, supported by the officials LOf thle ?? report of Gonr-ade Booth, the secretarz ...

... HUDDEPRSFIELD JUNIOR LIBERAL ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting ard tea of the Huddersfieid Junior Liberal Association was held on Saturday even- ing in the Que-en Hotel, Hluddersfield. Mr. J. Pyrah presided. The annual report showed as-i increased yneber.hip and steady progressive work during the The financial statement showed a balance in hand of £24 ?? moving the adoption of the report, the ...

... TEE CO'LRT. &.narfi. Vwe lesday.-rne 2Queen went out yester- gr rv mrniormi-. aecorrxinnned by Pricnes3s Ilemey of 2 be hinsabesr; an~d Prin~e.,s Victoria of S.?hlesswig-HoI- 't ea -in. In . he aftemroon Her Majesty- dyroe out, 'oteonimel by Pmrcc, iVictoria, and attended by t:a Hlon. Harritt I'hippb. The ?? and hiriheis of ' Verk ?? Tie QOeen. and remnained to Irnnheri. Rhe ihrlt Eon Akers ...

... WVEEK_ E'NDS. Oh! these week-ends-what to do with them? It is a cry of the New Age. It was not thus of yore. A quiet Saturday evening, a restful Sunday. and readiness for work on Mlonday. But now-a-days? We have dis- eovered that we are worried. and not only wearied with the six days' work, and the doctor tells uz it is worry that kills, and not work. WVe have no special inclination to ...

... o ?? LONP COPPESPOiTDEKT? 0Th - as Loxpow, T~hursday Nighrt. ci Encouraged by the speech mnade last night by M~r. t3: ¶ orley, the eldest eonjs' are likely to mnake another iii effrt n~ext seasoni to get the Hlouse of Comumons to di pass the Peers Disabilities Bill-a mneasulre designed to as relieve those who succeed to the Peerage from the qi dream~y fate of confining their ?? activit~ies ...