... WATERLOO LOCAL BOARD. Mr. H. H. Wilson presided at the usual monthly meeting of this board, which was held last night, at the town hall, Waterloo. The other members present were Messrs. J. Haddock, J. Lister, jut.s, T. Blissett, B. Gibson, and H. Roberts. It seemed, from the report of the medical officer of health, that there had beetn registered ill the district during the nonth ending ...

... ARMY STATIONS FOR DECEMBER Where two places are mentioued, the 1ast-unaeid is that at wdich the depit is stationed. CAVAILiY. ?? £rh, 6ihornreiffe. °21 ditto, St, John's Wcod; 9th LJScero. B-ngal; Cantby e:n, ngton, Hamnpton Vt. 1Ith 30w. -rd, Bei; Cas- Rosal B. fnurdoF Wisd,'er terbitry 1st ])rolt. tzards, &Alderahot 11 th, CulihereLr 2nd, Dutlin 1tch Lancers, 3I drai; COsu- 3rd, Cahir - ...

... I [STE WET ER, I THURJSDAY, DE MBii., IThe chart rep eeents the wes+ ,,trr~~l Europe fromn ?? totb tlh owei t ?? embraces Great Britaon the IiL B also includes the Dorth Sea or Germ, c BayofBiway, tbe weitermoe, ; I the Rngli-hn- Ln ...

... OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE I LONDON, SATURDAY EvENING,- At midnight on Saturday, December 14, t IS11 the great bell of St. Paul's announced to Lon(don thiat the Prince Consort was dead. At mid-day on the same day of the week and the same day of the month, 17 years later, the same bell announced that she who was her father's nurse during the days of anxiety.and the consoler of her mother when ...

... [THEWAR INAFGHANISTAN I [O-ICJzAL TELWRAM.) The following telegram has been received at the India Ofice from the Viceroy, dated 13th instant: - Roberta telegraphs from foot of Shutar Gardan, on 9th December, that he hopes to reach the top that day and to return to All Khel. No opposition met with. Hearfrom Cabulthat Ameer has eight regiments there, but troops not inclined to fight, Ameer ...

... TIHE AFGHAN WARh oaidI Itd 'J'o the time of writing, the arrival of a gieneral Browne at Jellalabad, which he the was expected to reach yesterday, is not 8et announced. Indeed, there is no further i news from either column of note, except ?? that Captain Goad, who, it will be remem- r a bered, was severely wounded in the attack Ol General Roberts's baggage waggon, Ihas since died. Captain ...

... A YEAR'S WORK EN THE POST- OFFICE. a The 24th report GI the Poetmaster-General on The lPostofice, being that for the financial year which ended March 31, 1878, has been issued as a Blue-book. Dealing with the inland service, the report states 'v that the number of postoffices established in the r year 1177 was 316l, raising the total number of eflices open in the United Kingdom on December ...

... I ?? The twelfth ?? and Birkenhead Gordovic Eisteddfod was heil yesterday afternoon, at the Concert HallLord Nelson-street. Owing no doubt to the dreadful state of the weather, there was a small attendanee as compared with previous years. The mayor (Mr. T. B. Royden) was the president, and the conductor was Tanymarian (the Rev. E. Stephens). The eisteddfod song ?? Baner ein gwlad) having been ...

... IOUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE LONOON, CiiRIS IMAS EVE. ?? metropolis is to-day given llp to pro- it paratiouis for to-iIloiTow. The. principal streets seem to be cleared of ordinary pe(ldestrians, and e heir places to be taken by family parties, a fathers, mothers, and children, the latter loaded r. with toys. Politics no longetr till maen's brains, ;_ and social reforms are hardly mentioned. r ...

... BIRTHS AND DEATHSIN TWENTY LARGE ENGLISH TOWNS. FORTY-NINTH1 WEE, 1878. in the week ending last Saturday, 5227 births and 4050 deaths were registered in twenty of the largest English towns, estinated by the Registrar. General to contain a population of rather more than seven and a quarter millions of persons in the middle of this year. The birdth exceeded by 150, and the deiths by 066, the ...

... S.P.E, CLI T LEGR0AMS. ac - 1 Lord reaconsfield will receive the Caliform'iuf deputation to-morrow (Thursday). An enlgine got otf the rails last night near Favershamn junction. Traffic was delayed. At the Clerkenwell police oourt, yesterday, Mr. John Baum and Mr. Evans, solicitor, wereagain brought up charged with forgery and fraud. The case was again adjourned. A woman named Thomasina Floyd ...

... ?? ~- 1 -; r->TEST 1 ASPA ,cUGAI'1IC NEWS Ad Fap 7'ha Pqj,3 COURT, &o; I pWINDS CASTLE. DEC. 4. h * elxrc Beatrice walked out v91eon aud her Majesty, with her vt t 55ied out thin morning ?? d 5rrrved *t the Cestle yesterday, cneil to-day at one o'clock, L. V5ret~tfI ii. ?? Leopold, the .eptrO. ?? the Dake of V a ?? SDndon. Mr. dn c9ri the cotunoil, was in oi O ichmond and Gordon r' I pue 31. ...