... A meeting of this board was held on Thursday, Sir Andrew Fairbairn in the chair. —After a communication had been read from tho Education Department, stating that'• my lords will allow the Leeds Boavd to make Beeston school as wide as was originally proposed, a letter was read from the Science and Art Department, asking the co-operation of the board in organising the conduct of the science ...

... An American, sixty-eight years of age, who has been married four times, has lately presented at the baptismal lo nt his thirty-first child. Happy man ! Straw hats, with a cabbage-leaf in the crown, are strongly recommended for harvesters as a precaution against sunstroke. Mr. Bulman, a veterinary surgeon at Jarrow, has accidentally killed himself by taking morphia to procure sleep. Lambs have ...

... SHOPS, ANT. WAREHOUSES TO LET. HOUSES AND CARRIAGES SALE. MONEY WANTED AND TO LEND. MACHINERY, CIjOTHINO, AM. JEW LERY. FURNITURE and BUSINESSES FOR ALE. HOTELS. PUBLIC-HOUSES, Sc.. LET, AND ALL ARTICLES OF A MISCELLANEOUS CHARACTER, Are inserted at Hit' following ratesj—~ ~~~~~ , _= I Three Six No. nords. Insertion. Insertion*. Insertions. euuuierated, and mutt puid prrriuus to imtriioii. V ...

... or —— aN UD ATHVE GE A rw OF THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY AND OTHER QJ DIAGRAM No, 1. The. Object of this diagram is two-fold :—first to show the number of insurants zach age EXPECTED to die according to the data on which the company’s Jes were founded; and secondly, the number at each such age that actually have i during the company’s fifteen years’ experience. The results are of great ...

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... o03S iIRE AGRiUILTtRAL RmoN, Thursday. ,,,fal show of the Yorkshite Agri. ^50O . s hs3 bwa brought to a close, and the Iltural Societyn xe to be conpratulated upof the OunalThe ?? of stock was fally Up to the ra5otl. T hn eosO clase3 it was superior to former bS1M, a3 sther has bean magnificent, and the yino Tt7f vizsitors compares favourably with other cttodeailct suty c such as those neld at ...

... worry put a*ide for another year, the Artillery Volunteers to-dey begin the annual meeting their association Shoebnryneas, where if not much money is to be found in the prize list at Wimbledon the honours which are be won are richly merited by those who obtain them as any prize— Queen's or other —which the metropolitan Infantry meeting bestows. At Shoeburyness there are no pot-hunters or ...

... Ilirak, tha »iprwri hop* that a raitabU K aul forward to the borough; and ha apuke > iaioural'li ttrnv* Mr Brook, jon., Enilirby and formerly Meltham, i&r Brmk i irstitutk'oalwt. a Kcutleman who had WMftMJVlrti the p*t»tK*m»n who, I'fttltftiutut, wuuki ii«> honour to the town. A ...

... CONTINUED ADVANCE OP THE RUSSIA!* - ADRIANOPLE OCCUPIED. STATE OF THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS- Pending the issue of the armistice there is no suspension of the Russian advance, which is P 0 powerful an argument in favour of the Russian terms 93 which could be urged the Conference. At Vienna tbe denblatt reports that the Czar ordered on Monday onward march against Constantinople; and it rumour ...

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... PROROGATION PARLIAMENT. The principles of our constitution Ministers are made responsible for the the Sovereign must often excite the gratitiw. journalists who are called upon to i Queen's Speech. loyalty forbade a«j 1 favourable criticism upon these periodical >! tions, unfortunate would they be, indeed, to say anything of them. On the present i our task would certainly hard one ti. speech ...

... SANSON'S LEEDS DIRECTORY for 1898 is now ready. Published aunually. Itist/ie local direct ory. Price 10s 6d. Tbe cheapest directory ever published in Leeds. Over 800 Special reduction toannu d subscribers. Sir* 1 J - EOBINSON, BOND-PLACE. LEEDS, ...