... REPLY TO DR. THORNE'S REPORT. The umual monthly nieeting of the above Board wyas held yesterday afternoon, Mr Bow. ser presiding. The principal business transacted was the adoption of a report of the Sanitary Committee on the report farnihlied to the Local Governmjnt Board by Dr. Thorne on the sani- tary condition of the town. The Committee dealt with Dr. Thorne's recommendations under nine ...

... A YEAi'S Cti'IME IN THE BISHOP AUoKLAND DISTRICT. The report recently compiled by Mr Superin- l tendent Elenderson for the year endinE SeptemberI 29th, shows that 4,410 males and 585, lemaleq, making a total of 4,995 persons, were dealt with summarily before the magistrates during the year, against 4,051 for last year, being an increas orX 944 neon last year. Of that number 455 males t and 170 ...

... THE GUISBROrGH CLUB. This week, without any formal demonstra. .5 tion or imposing ceremony, an institution has been opened in GuisbrougE, which deserves r more than a passing notice. The Gaisbrough l1 Club, for that is ititle, is a public institution r which, before long, we trust, will be looked l upon as a public necessity by the inhabitants of Guisbrough and the neighbourhood. It f offers ...

... DISESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHURCH 0F ENGLAND. CONFERENCE OF LIBERATI10NITS IN| MANCHESTER. A conference of the members anu friends of the Liberation Society was held yesterday I morning, at the Mfemorial Hall, Manchester, Mr Hugh Mason, Df Ashton, presiding. Amongst those present were Mr H. Richard, M.P., Mr E. Miall, Mr Lyulph Stanley, Dr. M'Kerson, and others. The CHAInarAN, in opening the ...

... NORTH BOUNCTY NEWS. Mr Henry Watson, the well-known auctioneer of Guisbrough, has established a monthly cattle sale at that place for Cleveland. SALTBURN BRASS BAND.-Mr John Bell, Rush- pool Hal, has I indly presented ,51. to the Salt- burn Brass Ban d, towards the purchase of addi. tional instruments. CLEVMlAND EXTENsrON MINERAL RILWVA.- ; Mr Dodds, M.P., will cat the first sod in connec- ...

... GUY FAWKES DAY IN BRISTOL. A GIRL SHOT DEAD. At the Bristol Police Court, yesterday, a boy named Arthur Adams waso'iarged with killing a little girl, named Sarah Hooper, by firing a pistol loaded with slugs, on Thursday night. He was remanded. THE EUPTON GAS COMPANY. A petition to wind up the Eupion Gas Com- pany stands over for a week, pending the pro. ceedings against the directors, LORD ...

... HINDERWELL COURSING . MEETING. .- - . - ?? A two days' coursing was finished yesterday on Captain Turton's Roxby estats, over which Mr Thos. Vaughan, Middlesbrough, bas the right of shooting. The weather during the early part of yesterday was very unfavourable to sport, but as the day advanced the clouds dispersed leaving the sky comparatively clear. The prize was a beauti. fail silver eup, ...

... WVEST AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. A large meeting was held at the Mansion Heaase )esterdnY3 on the SeUbject of the West African slave trade. Sir Bartle Frere, in the ,mavoidable absence of the Lord Mayor, pre. sded. lie said he bad received a letter from a gentleman of high standing, expressing the belief that the only thing for Africa was the stick, He believed much more might be done by education ...

... IHE .ORTHERN ECHO. TUESDAY, NOVEMBFR 3, 1874. ON the right bank of the Hoogly, the traveller on his way to Calcutta. passes a ?? long low building, gaudy and architectur- ally hideous, but from its vast size almost itnposing ; the residence of one of the many Monarchs whom we have dethroned in India. Within the walls of that palace, jealously secluded from the eyes of the outer worMl, WAJID ...

... 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 ...

... Mr Boiston, gamekeeper ?? Clavering, r Esq., Greoncroft Park, shot a woodoc~k on the fe 24th of last month. )O Several collieries in the neighbourhood of Us- I h Lam Moor, near Durham, are idle in conseqaance of being unable to get trucks in which to take a is a y, ASSAULTING THE PoLICE.-Yesterday, the Lmn- I m chester magistrates (Henry Smith and John Cla- t Ad vering, Erqs.), fined a puddler ...

... THE HEALTH OF MDLE SBROUGH. -I If THE DOCTORS ON THE DEATH RATE. so Pursuant to the resolution of a Committee of :e the Middlesbrough Town Council directing the n Town Clerk to invite the medical practitioners R resident in the borough for their opinion as to e the public health generally, and their advice as , to the cause of the prevailing fever in the town, ,: a meeting was called by ...