... I I i~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - JTjORNAL AND L EXPRESS FUND. THE QuEIN'S GRATIFICATLGON WITH `LIBEI-ALITY AND SYMPATHY OF ABERDEEN. We have pleasure in announcing that Her I Majesty the Queen has graciously expressed her gratification with the liberal support i that has been given by the people of Aber- deen and Aberdeenshire to the fund for Those left behind. In view of the fact that our fund ...

... CiEaF OPPtr-eRGA1) STR.EERT, ADF-IPEFa fwOvDVs OFFICYI5 NEW PRIOGE STREIET S:C. f~tEG~fRFM- ABE3OEEST JOU1NAL,' A4REHL,. I-. F:aiJEX 9. ABr2PDFEEN\. THllUFRSDAY., M\AR. 22, 11O3. i N E S U .MA R Y'. The large sailing ship City of Florence. of; Giasgow, is reported to have been wrecked rear San Francisco. The crew were saved. Weather furecas--EsSt and north-Cold and dry! with moderate to strong ...

... iGILCOMSTON PARISH CHURCH ELECTON OF TRS-TTEES. LIVELY PROCEEDINGS- 1' Last night a meeting of tse congrega tio oLe Gileoxrvtcsa Pzrish Church wazs -held -in the church; hail for the osectionef trustees in, rarom. o t ree genilsenen who had resigned. 'There was -a large giatcendwcoe. Mr Chtares Gawid. commercial f traveller, presided, and the ether tzustees on the plaitorm were AMr lRobert ...

... ISCOTISH REFORiMATIOX SOCIETY . mJuFnUIS ANTI TEE WAR. The annual meeting of the Scottish Ref;orma- tion Societv was held vesterdayf afterncon in tle Rnyal Hotel Rdinburgrh-the eail of Moray pre- siding. The report deplored the 5peocacle of two Christian Preatszant countries engaged in mortal conmbat. It avt-rred hatl thoze who wvatched ptfblic movements very narrowly had the strong suspicion, ...

... ITr -BJ W A R. BOER1S DRIVEN FROM LAING'S NEK. NEGOTIATIIONS FOR ENEMY'S S JIr P. EN FPL RFOBERTS'S COMMUNICA- TIONS CUT. S'T'RONG CO7.MMANDO NEAR |KROONSTAD. RUNDLE'S DIFFICULT TASK. C-eneral Biller, wiring from headquarters in Natal yesterday, Q;awas that he found that the enemy were aboi4 two thousand strong ii a carefully prepared positvion, which they I must be disheartened not to have ...

... I I I iSERIOUS SPREAD OF THE DISORDERS. ANOTHER VILLAGE BURNT. MANY NNATIE CIRLSTIANS M LtDItDMIDD. AN IMPENIAL EDICT. UNDISGUISD SYMIPATHY WTM ThE (PRniss ASSOCIATION FOREIGN BPEOUL. Tioetziu, Friday. Au Isnourial ediot pu'blished htere to-day La oouolied in such terms as Lo leave absolutely no douthL of the deeo synipalty of the throno with thr Boxer Irovemtent. This is further Otio.- ...

... SUHOOL BOAR.D MUEETINGS. YTH N W ElL. A meeting of Ythan Wells School Board was helM in the classroom on Saturday-Mlr J. S. Crnickshank, chairman, presiding. Mr Cruick- shank thanked the board for eleoting him chair. man for the seventh time. Some cases of non- attendance were dealt with. IThe clerk was ordered to instruct Forgue School Board as to the case of Tom Hidd, Greens. who is at ...

... FAR.MS, FARMERS, AND FARMING THE SEASON. The heat wave which brought with it a week; ago an abnormal Apzil temperature in Aber- deen of 74 degrees, the highest in the kingdom, has been followed by cold easterly winds, which l one feels very much. The warm days had a very marked stimulating effect on vegetation, grass visibly deepen-ing to a richer green, and the budding trees bursting into ...

... CITY AND DISTRICT GOSSIP Private Jaesne MSack-eonsie, 'Abibdeen' who on Friday won the Queen's Cup at Aiberdeen Wapinschaw. Fevered his eonneetionrl with the volunteers some timo ago, Sharing, however iin the patriotic spirit aroused on the outbreak of the war in South Africa, he attended the-meet. irtg ofm past, present, and] intendirlg members of the let V.B. Gordon Highlanders, and was per- ...

... 'Umechly d% VW ;-tournd tBlaga I' ? 31neo Zranspott attb Zupplv -Searchlight, writing in the October number of the Pall Mall Magazine, say's:-The trans- Port and supply requirements of an army in the field are so intimately connected, and the work is o closely interwoven, that these services are mow undertaken in their entirety by one corps -the Army Service Corps, At various periods of ...

... J Aa goWden aiterason. Said moy heart. wi' a stoun 0. tal' rMe alice mnair s Kenmnay I, For hlng. lang ago wvan ever in a. glow When I beat in your bacosm at Renay. - So, in the evening fair, i lichtit. we duonm there, And wandered thro' the bonnie woods o' Kenmay: Wi' mony a sob and sigh For the days that were gone by. And bhe hearts that avce beat high at femnay. 0. the woods waere green ...

... ABEPID1?EN ThAMWAYS. TRE SS USPFENSION OF A CONUCaTOR.J REIN;STATED WITHI FULLP PAY. L-At a meeting of 'the Tramwaye 'f 'Commnittee of Aberdeen Towrn Counofi on Friday the Coieven er (Cou ncill'or Wilklie) referred to i e the friction that had nrispn ever the suspension I tof a tramway conductor for refusling to stop his# e car between twvo sta~tions in Un1ion Street, and taeththo had received ...