... I REDUC TON OF WAGES. I -I THREATENED STRIKE AT RAYMTON a DIXON AND CO.'S. Messrs Raylton Di-on and Co. are about to close their works, owing to a section of their men having refused to accept a reduction of five per cent. in their wages. About six hundred men will be thrown out of employment, the larger por- t tion of whom are quite willing to work at the re-t daction proposed. a a TEN PER ...

... FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDENT 1UNAR SOUTH STOCKTON. A shocking shooting accident occurred on lion- day afternoon in the neighbourhood of Maltby, some two or three miles from Sooth Stockton, by which a man named William Lambert, a monlder, between thirty and forty years of age, unmarried, and belonging to Middleebrough, met an instan- taneous death. On Monday deceased, in corm- pany with Robert and ...

... El ra - The Mayor of Burnley has replied to the Home of Secretary's inquiry as to the distress in that town. ye The Mayor cenclndes his letter by saying:- The th , most effectual way in which the Government can r aid us is by putting an immediate stop to the war af in Affghanistan, the cost of which, whether laid it upon England or upon India, alike paralyses our trade by curtailing the ...

... [T OPHAN HOME AND PRINT- I i ING PRELSS, LEONdINSTER. 'IlI1c eisnual report of the Orphan NaImes ard n s Orphaans' i'ting Press, Leominster, for 1878, ha3 been issued. The list of chiidren UOw di in the Houn s (every one of whom has U ,ost both father end mother by death) in- Bi cludes two froma Bishop Auckland and one ni ,roltm Darlington, in ths couity of Dnr- ob it iaum. During the year ...

... DARLING*TON. Owing to the very sudden melting of the snow and the giving of the ice on the Northern rivers, floods are reported from all parts of the North. The River Tees, which drains so large a tract of hilly country, seldom contained a larger body of liquid than that which swept in flood past the waterworks yesterday, carrying on its turbid waters hundreds of thousands of tons of ice. All ...

... = 4== - 7 -i S w- ~ I NORTH ii '£Y NEWS, I DTJfiSHA. CATHEDRAL. Wood' Ib~eouti: WiEDNEiSDAY, JAISUAUT 1, 1879. aet Moerning-Service ArnieS in Gt. Anthem (428): Inlteo Christ dwalleth all the fulness (Gose). Introitt (511): of her 1 Laid, ih a our ref ago has been (Youedstsohlm). Corn- the Sol mutiion:? Arrieg in A. had t EveniugA-SerVice Stainler in F. Antheni : ed School kindly light (worads ...

... ISj g;ORTOR ERNFCIo WVEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1879. > EIGnITEEN HUNDrED AND SEVFNTY- EIGHT, with all its disappointments, has 1 rolled away, and we stand this morning on the threshold of a new year. Whether a Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-Nine, like its immediate predecessor, is to be a year of humiliation and of shame depends upon ourselves. At present, therefore, we re- gard it as a year of ...

... I - iGENEI{,L FORELGN INEWS. IeA [REsitira's TMOReArs.] so ret THE NEW GOVERNOR OF THE au ,. . LEBANON. (lf CossTAsirTNoPnE, Tuesday, 7.35 p.m,-The thi Porte lhes proposed to the Powers to appoint as be Governor of the Lebanon Nassi Bay, First Score- of tary to the Embassy in Paris, and son of Franco Fr Pashi, the former Governor of that province. at The French Government has expressed its ap- ...

... PROPOSED ABANDONMENT OF TIlE NINE HOUJRS' MOVEMENT. THREATENED STRIKE OF ENGI- NEERS. A meetie, of the Executive Council of the Amalgaitated Society of Eagineers was held on monday night at the geueral offices, in Blackfriars- road, to consider documents issued by the Iron Trades Employers' Association. A. letter was read to the meeting stating that a conference of the members of the Iron ...

... T c I, AFF(3RAN WAR . DiiUE ?..OUBLEe tIN 1 THI, UY. BzW i r YviceioY's TLLEsGsea.] le lIst Jfn ry, 187R.-Road between Shergai and o Ali Afusjid temporarily stopped by party of about al thirty Mild KLhs. Yesterday one camp follower co killed. Troops ordered out, but road Cleared by dii Jes'iilehies b-form their arrival. Telegraph open to IT Ali M-Liuejid, i4 beiug pushed on to Lundi Rhaun, ...

... THBDUSAiNDS iJF ACBLES SUB- 1M6 13(EiD. After a good deal of labour, the railway bridge3 on the Woveprley lihe, as to the stability of which there Cwas iulSSh appreliensios oil Moaday night, have boeu brought into such a couditiou as to aliow of the tral'io being carried on without much delay. The floodiug along the route is, hoivever, very greut. In Glasgow Harbour thirty vessels were caLried ...

... REDUT'ION OF WAGES. END OF OLDHAM STRIRE. Yesterday afternoon, at a conference of ome- it ployers and operatives in the cotton trade at id Oldham, the men accepted the raduclion in full. r, The whole of the mills will be at work on Mon-. J. day next. The strike has continued for live al weeks, and the lose in wages aloul is calculated t. at £d0,0oD. t Ig THE MIDLAND RAILWAY SERVANTS. S. The ...