... having boon exposed to infection, numbered 1,029, as against 779 in the previous week and 1,524 in the corresponding week of 1898. To this total Wilti contributed 54. In the week under notice 12 outbreaks of anthrax were reported. Tho only outbreak! glanders ...

... MEETINGS BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. The annual meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society was held in Exeter Hall, last week. The Earl of Shaftesbury presided. The report stated that the net receipts for the year were 222,191?. The issues ...

... on Thursday morning, on a visit to Her Majesty. The Female Servants' Home Society held its twentieth Anniversary last week at Exeter Hall. The Report read detailed its operations since the year 1836—6,410 servants had been admitted into the Homes, and ...

... the bes, uieuicul advice) there are at present but littie hopes of the poor lad's life Caution Apprkxticks.—On Monday week, at Exeter, John Landray, an apprentice of Mr. Thomas Pike, tail.ir, was, for repeated misconduct, by absenting himself from his ...

... recital by Dr. }hillock at Exeter Cathe deal and a civic reeeptim of the convene by the Mayor and Mayoress of Exeter in the historic Guildhall. Later in the week visits were paid to Torquay, Creditor' and Dartmoor. Advent Mestinga—The prophetical aspect of ...

... and coal. There were lees than fIOO appeals against the Income Tax at the meeting of the Chippenham Commissioners, last week. The Exeter Corporation of the Poor have decided to increase the relief of the out-door poor one-third for two months. Talleyrand ...

... Ewelme, Oxford. These enclosures are to be made forthwith. Temwrerasxce Leacve.— A meet- ing of this society was held last week, at Exeter Hall, for considering the subjects of the closing of public- houses on Sundays, and the exclusion of strong drinks from ...

... stated that the floods bad occasioned loss of nearly £10.000 to the company. A riotous Liberation meeting was held last week at Exeter. Mr. Blackburne, the celebrated chess-player, lately played eight games blindfold, and he succeeded in winning them all ...

... brought Liverpool last week from the United States and Canada showed remarkable decrease when compared with the preceding week, being something like half the quantity, while arrivals of live cattle and sheep were tnuoh In exoeas of any week for several months ...

... return of cold winds and ungenial weather prevailed during nearly the whole of last week, putting temporary retardment to the active vegetation of the previous week. This week, however, we have had rains, and the situation has again proved more favourable ...

... Shaftesbury presided last week at Exeter Hall over a conference on the subject of Ragged Schools, in which the Duke Westminster, the Earl of Aberdeen, Canon Fleming, and Mr. S. Morley, M.P., took part. Lord Carrington stated last week in the House of Lords ...

... CE. The Duke of Cambridge will proceed shortly to Cannes, where he intends to spend several weeks at the Hotel dv Prince de Galles. Princess Louise last week distributed prizes to the Royal Female School of Art. The Duchess of Albany on Friday visited ...