... 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 - ...

... - FLIGHT OF THE AMEER. LON THE SHAH OF PERSIA AND: SHERE AL. ALT BAGHAN, bec. 19. The Ameer, Shere Ali, has fled from Cabul to Wh Turkestan, having released Yakoob Khao, and left Barle him in charge of fafirv. Sir Samuel Browne reaches Jelalabad to-day. LEI VIeNNA, Dec. 20. diate The evening edition cof the Prese publishes a note. ley e) worthy telegram :from St. Petersburg. Whl According to ...

... FUNERAL OF THE LATE JOHN HETX, ESwO OF BRIGG. On Friday last the mortal remains of this muich;' respected gentleman were interred in the quiet and pus: turesque cemetery of Wrawby-cunm.Brigg. The body came by trairifrob London via Betford at one shortly afterwaids the funeral cortte started from ti4e kailway-station in the 'following ?? rnd- assistants; Heas'se, containing the body; Pall ...

... - . I W -VT , r 4. P, r, y,,r ?? , , - - -.1 ?? v A . !, .I -, ., . g L .6ma _?w. l-, -The Duchess of -Edinburgh arrived in London on Sunday from the Oontinent. ?? ThelXewfoundland; elections have resulted in the sup- port of the present Ministry. , A woman and two children were crushed to death biy the falling of a building in Lambeth,. London, ton Saturday. The Council of the Russian Empire ...

... 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 ...

... A NEW vocalist, says the OfiMsical World of the 16th ult., of great promise and exceptional claims to consideration, is about to appear at Her Majesty's 'Theatre. Mdlle. Ambre is by birth an African, having first seen the light at Oran, in Algiers. Her parents belonged to a distinguished Moorish family, and were highly regarded in the Court of the late Emperor of Morocco. Both were ...

... 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 ...