... ?? ?? A CAUTION TO FRIE?~Ly SOCIETIES. At the Manchester Police Court on Tesay R Rayner, a respectable-looking old ' l Oger was charged with withholding £1,182 ul, 8 of a5ge of the Manchester An:uitant Societ of d *o l secretary.-Dr. Wheeler, who ae society, stated that the socuely was c .,l for tele years ago, to provide a yearly allowance fortt any of deceased members, and to relieve doik g ...

... ** Thiis page will always be fowned interesting to Licensed Victuallers, aned the operations of the UNITED TowNs' ASSOCIATION AND LICENSED VIC- TIUALLERS' DEIENCE LEAGUE are poehlisezed under their own sveiristendence. Congratulatory Address to Mr. Alderman Wire, Lord Mayor Elect, from thei Licensed Vietu- allers of Birmingham. A deputation of the Licensed Victuallers from the Borough of ...

... SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A SURGEON AND SHIPBROIvER IN CARDIFF. On Friday last Mr. W. H. Hugo, surgeon, Bute- road, was brought before the Borough Magistrates on a charge of attempting to procure abortion in the case of Eliza Roberts, daughter of Mr. R. Roberts, late master printer in Cardiff. The application for Warrants against Mr. Hugo and Mr. John Matthews, shipbroker, who was also implicated ...

... CAERPHILLY. THE APPROACH TO THE RAILWAY STATION.—A large hotel, for the accommodation of travellers, is in course of erection on the Caerphilly turnpike road at the corner of the green lane leading to the railway station, which no doubt will prove a great convenience if not a profitable speculation. The late rain has converted this green lane into a muddy one, ren- dering it difficult for ...

... CRINOLINE.—It is said that a comic writer is about bringing out a new farce, entitled A Journey around My Wife. ...

... STOW-ON-THE.WOLD. BIRTH. -October 26, at Masgersbrrry, neair Stow-on-the- Viold, the wife Of Mr. J. N. Hunt, bookseller, of afsoil. DESPER5ATE AND MURDoErcous ASSAULT uroN A POLICE- C DIAN.-On Wednesday evening last, 'about ?? fivet o'clock, ii party of the most desperate aind violent character's wvere creatinig so great ai dlisturbenco inl a bush-houlie, in Rag's-row, in this town, as to call ...

... FEST IVITIES AT WILLIAXSTBRI PARB, GLOUCESTERBSHIRE. The rural and generally peaceful villa-es of Coin St. AId- t i win's and Hatherop, in which the above residence is situated, sL have within the last few days been the scenes of more than a l ordinary gaiety and festivities, On Saturday last, being the ws natal day and the twenty-first anniversary of the birth of th Sir Michael Edward Hlicks ...

... .3UREORD. DIED.-Oct. 4, at Burford, aged 88, Dorfthea Catberine, widow of T. Ruddinean Stewart, Esq., M.D., of Doncaeter. THE BURFORD CHARITIES. Thle adjouirned inquiry into the state of the Burfof-d chlarities was resumed on Wednesday the 20th instant, at tlc Boll Hotel, by Wailker Skirrow, REsq. Mr. Cheatle was present, accompanied by Mr. Hunt, solicitor, Witney. Mr. W. R. Cooke and Mr. R. H ...

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... THE report of the Select Committee on Savings banks, as well as the evidence taken by that committee, has just been published. It appears from a summary of the re- port, which appeared at the time it was made (July last), that the committee reviewed the past legislation upon the subject of savings-banks, and stated that the directions of the several Acts on the subject of invest- ments by them ...

... We mentioned lately that three French officers of rank had been brought to a court martial in Africa for em- bezzlement The following particulars of this serious affair now appears in the Paris newspapers:- A great sensation has been caused in French military circles by the trial before a military tribunal, sitting at Blidah, in Algeria, of three officers, Chef d'Escadron S-, Captain A, and ...

... SOUTH DUDLIN JUION-Y1e rKcwDY. I I n - - -- . ?? . : . - . . Af Sir ROaaRaT SHAW, Bart., in the chair.. m D Pbother guardians present ?? Ons'ly Bansai], J P V C; CorrnelhinsShannon, George G Place, J P; D P Ryan, as 3']P George AustinJclsuPrettactt, Williarm Cisibeck, 31'; le Andrew Rogers, John Keogh, folin H Askins, Milchel I 1. Connor, Ceorge Sykes, Henry Kbigstnill, Patrick Whelan, 2 John ...