... A meeting of the Peterhead Harbour Trustees was hIeld yesterday afternoon-Baillie. Smith presiding. PILOTAGE RATES. This subject was taken up, and as it has as far as the main point is concerned been apparently settled, it may be well to give an outline of the controversy Col that it has occasioned. It has constantly recurred ar en( 'varying intervals from 1874 till -now, and has to some Val ...

... THE OrxNIc OF TvIE i ESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL.-On Tuesday evening a social meeting was held in the Seafieid Street Hall In connection with the opening ceremony of the new Wesleyan Methodist Chapel-Provost Couttg presidinr. There waS a large . attendance, nearly 400 being pesent. After tea, which was served on tables decorated uith beautiful flowers, and presided over by a nukber of l dies, 31 ...

... A SWISS VIEW OF THE PARtT TAKEN BY ENGLAND IN THE EASTERN QUESTION. The Eastern question forms the leading political topic of last year. From the 1st of January to the w. 31st of December it continued to unfold a course of extraordinary events, opening with the passage of the tj Balkans and the capture of Adrianople, and closing si1 with the passage of the Ehyber defiles ant the capture de of ...

... 5i I BANd'F.-Owing to the severity of the weather the ieproceeding df the boats to the fisbing ground this week 16 has been completely impeded. The success of the r. fishing last week was very large. Up to Saturday night t. upwards of 150 score of big fish were landed, fetching .5 from 10d to Is per head, the value of the fish receding towards the end of the week. I'any of the boats had takes ...

... Th-E zm '-Zt'~'--WA-&R= !lARRJV AL OF TUE tURBANJ rTHlE ERO;0WE RELIEF' Lt OPERATIONS. s d -- 5] d STATEMENT BY AN OFFICE R, a a THE ADVANCE OF THSE COLUMdN. u o rs f ' PrYxExouTv, Sund'ay evening. con f The Union Co.'s Royal Miail steamship Dorban f5 3arrived off Plymouth Sound at six this evening, fo F having acconsplishsd the quickest 'passage on record of -from the Cape, viz., that of 18 ...

... kBERDEEN, MONDAY, FEB. 3, 1879. THAT we are at wa- with Cetewayo, the perverse King of Zululard, is now placed beyond a doubt. | n A, - - L - .. I - - -. .1 . . I . .. Advices have been received uip to the 14th lIt., and cc on that date hostilities were expected to commence cc between the Zulus and the Imperial troops. Cetewayo ra failed to avail himself of the eight additional days o( ...

... t;CHIlLD SUEFFOCATED.-fin Th ursday n ight a child n ine Iweeks old, the son of M~r M'Ken tie, spirit dealer, JBlgin, was overlain by his brother and suffocated. rTHEFT OF A PERa aOF BOOTS. -On Friday-before 1 Honorary Sheriff:Suhstituste Mfaclean-MIary Gordon or eBremner was convicted of the theft of a pair of elastic- sided boots, the property of Euphemia Rtoss, Lossie- omouth, and was sent ...

... GREAT MEETING IN LIVERPOOL. A towvn's meeting, called by requisition to the Mayor, was bold in St George's Hail, Liverpool, on Satlurdlay afternoon to consider the question of sup- porting tbe Sunday Closing Bill nOW before P~arlia- ment. The Mayor, Mdr Thomas B. Royden, presided, and there was a very large and influential attendance. The Mlayor spoke in hearty sympathy writh the Sun- day ...

... RICHARD BRINSLEY SHEREDAN, POET, DRAMATIST, STATESMD. Lots might Mr Alexander Forbes, jun., delivered a lecture in the Song School, Aberdeen, on the life and writings of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, poet, dramatist, statesman. The lecture was in aid of the funds of the Sick-Cbildren's Hospital. Notwitbstanding the incle- mont nature of the weather there was a good attend- Dean of Guild Walker ...

... aEI Mo I API ., , S 7. ABERD>EEN, MONDAY, -APRILl 28, 1&79. - A BERLL? telegram states that the contemplated inorease of the Russian armv is not 40 battalions, as o, , - t A . . atfirstzreported, but. 150, being equivalent .to about 125,000 men. Seeing that ere many monthsj the whole of the, military forces now occupying.Turkish, provinces will have returned home, the-propbsed in- crease is ...

... -- SiEVEDOM.. * Of the many antique virtues which have disappeared. hefore the niia'rcb of miod-ern enlightenment and progress,. the smost comnpletely aextiaot is-.thatiof *reticence; . There are 3o such WinDgs, as sfecrets nr cenfidepees nowvadays;', l and society acts upon,the supremely un'selfish principle tb'dt whitever any one member of it knows: should be procllime~j rmiscellaneously ...

... TUE ~SCOTCH EDUCATION REPORT. The report of the Committee of Council on Education ine Scot] and has been issued from th'e Edulcation Depart- ment. The peerhal to which it relates closes on the 31 ...