... .,o Lord and Lady Middleton have arrived at Mal- ton for the hunting season. Several Middlesbrough tradesmen were fined in verious amonnts on Saturday for having light weights in their shops. APPREEENSION OF A YORK HORSEDEALTIB AT SOUTH SHIELDS.-OU Saturday night, Detective Patterson, of the South Shields Police, apprebon- ded at the North-Eastern Railway Station, a fashionably dressed young ...

... TEES CONSERVANCY COM.MIS-I SIONERS. The ordissary monthly meeting of the Comn mis- sion was held yesterday morning at the Board room, Stockton, Mr Isaac Wilson presiding. THlE LOAN FROM THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMI5- -SIONER(S. The CHIEF CLEsnE stated that in accordance with instructions from the Board, he had applied to the Public Works Commissioners for a further loan of 100,0001,; since then he ...

... jHE gORTHERN RCHO THU1R7DAY, NOVEMBEB 5, 1874. I -- -- MR EDGAR LAYABD,who for some'ime past in: has been acting as Her MAJESTY'S Consul at its Levaka, is to be the Mo'st governor of otir to new dependency of Fiji. He possesses an d- thorough acquaintance with Fijian politics, of: ik and if he is but as strong as he is well- an a, informed, his term of office should establish del affairs in ...

... MONDAY, NOVZ73E.rFB 2, 1874, . , .j.Ju I. 1F AN intelligent foreigner were to visit I the North tiding to inspect the workings of te British fie idlCtion, wo should much regr~et if e dep~rtel vwithout making him : Ie1f acquainted ?? the Borough of Thirsk. I the experience of that hapless constita- eney he would see many illustrations of a tl condition of affairs now happily almost ex- VP ...

... DARLIFNTON GBAMMAR SCHOOL j GcOVERNORS. . UV V Z`-1VU. b A neaeting of the Governors of ?? Darlinlgton .raminar Schvol waa hctl S6d.d1y. r, I.. Dlde (cecnpied tbe chair, r)nl tbele were ?? pre-t sent the Mayor, the Rpwqs. W. (b. Stephens and A. H. Hruglhes, also Aldermen Luclk, Bowroeu, and 1.Henry Pease, Mtesers Edward Pease, Tberidoce Fry, T It. M. Plews, ae' Ttn1'nelo. OSiSC5LLAn;OOUS.i lhs ...

... MAKING STREETS IN MIDDLES- BROUJGH. I On Saturday, several owners of property were c summoned before the magistrates (Miessrs H. a at Thompson, R. Stephenson, and J. Stevenson) for t Y* various amounts due t) the Middleebrough Town e Council for the making of the street in front of I ry their property. The first case heard wss one in W 'al. which Wmn. P. Elliott, of Stockton, was sum- 1. ke ...

... I BY W. HEPWORTH DIXON. [r- -1 ?- VWRITTEN FOR ruE NORTHERN ECHD. 1 O LETTER III.-THE NATION'S WARD. 1 d RICHsMOND, OCTOBER., In the capital of Virginia, I saw this morning a by poetical figure called the Nation's Ward; a negro iiboy, in all the freshness of his youth and all thet stimpotence of his race. Thenegro type is tenderly c g sabdued; not into that of the African Sibyl, in s 1. ...

... THE DARLINGTO)N RATEPAYERS' ASSOCIATION. T ---L A . . . .. - n List night a meeting of the ratepayers was 0 held in the National School-room, Lead YarJ, r for the purpose of forming a committee in the y South Ward in connection with the above associa- -. tion. There was a f ir attendance. h Mr MANNERS ?? the chair, and after a Ibrief introduction called upon Mr J. T. SEDGwIcK who moved the ...

... DARLINGTON. NoB. W. SiMPSON AND THE CENTRAL WARD. DISORDERLY PROCEEDINGS. On Saturday afternoon, according to announce- M ment, Ur W. Simpson addressed the burgesses of I the Central Ward, in the Market-place. The can- rdidate took ris station on the leads opposite the second foor windows of the Bull's Head Inn, and from the first the large crowd received his re- marks with chaff and ...

... NORTH COUNTTRY NEWS. Lie Ot GOING APEAD.-The South Yorkshire Miners' at Association now owns the most handisome build- ro iog in Barneley, as its headquarters. It was built dy for the Association at a cost of 7,0001, de M WIIALL'S BaoTTHEs.-Tbe Rev. J. G. Miall h is about to resigen the pastorate of Salem Inde. he pendent Chapel, Bradford, which ho has held for oir nearly fifty years. ild A ...

... DESPERATE STRUGGLE WITH A POACHER NEADA REDCAR. A man named Frederick Cox, a miner at Up. I leatham, was charged at the Guigbrough Police Court, yesterday, with trespassing in pursuit of game, and violently assaulting a gamekeeper,E named Hardeastle, on Sir Charles Lowther's es- i tate, at Wiltcn near Relear, on Monday after. noon. The prisoner and another man were ob. i served by the watchers ...

... I HE #ORTHERN IC1od j SATURDAY, N1OVEMBER 7, 1874. THE R FORMING RAILWAY. THE DmRECTORS of the Midland Railway Pompany have issued a circular vindicating their conduct in proposing to abolish second. class carriages. It clearly defines the d changes which they intend to make, and justifies the great reform which they , desire to introduce. 'It also announces that the Directors willingly accede ...