... iTiUi TEN IOUW&S' QUESTION. STRIKE AT SOUTH STOCKTON. aThe strike of the men employed et eies5rs Allen fair tand Co.'s, 13on Lea Foundry, South SLockton, tra' against a demand of the masters for a reduction 0 1 in their wages from 83 to 53 poer cent., and return Dei to the 10B hours per day system, is the chief topic con on Toesside-being freely discussed ia all circles. tha lu our report on ...

... THE ZiULU WAR. I ITRANSPORTS ENGAGED Th FOR THE TROOPS. _ _ _ Mal ACTIVITYINTHEARSENALS lth] 1 erof S 40,( APPREHENSIONS IN INDIA. Los tem cen 1 News of the di'saster has reached India, and the Dri spirit in which it has been received by - some of cap roa the native tribes is inducing great caution onl the colt part of the Government at home in withdrawing of -troops from that Empire. Mal The ...

... ;) The regular monthly meeting of the above S A Authority was held at the Workhouse yesterday e h forenoou-the Chairman (Mr W. Edgar) pre- a is siding.a MEDICAL OiCFIEiRS' REPOITS. a s. The Deputy-Clerk (Mr S. Adams) read the fol. Sl a lowing report of Mr V. Hutchinson, medical officer P t of health for No. 3 district D aring the year dl 1878 the health of No. 3 district has on the t] v. whole ...

... WAVLL AND MILITARY INTELLIGEiNCE. 1lne stuiaar(t Ior gunners of the Artillery has been raised to the extraordinary height of 5ft. Wlin., which has had the intenlded effect of nearly stopping the supply of recruits for that branch of the service. Some of the brigades are still ?? drivers at 5ft. 4irin., but there ale many rmore candidates than vacancies. The rifle battalions, which have been ...

... TO THE EDITOR OP REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER. * Srs,-British philanthropy, like the chame-d leon, assumes divers shades. It is sometimes wrong-sided, and occasionally crooked or per- verse. It does the oddest things at the oddest times, runs counter to public opinion, carries out crotchets of its own, and never wearies of finding some new field of operation. It imitates the flightiness of the flirt, ...

... l~etlillcf 'tMr. ce~rae 8hase.1 Tule follosvinn ?? wecre issafed durin Ih ekedn Febru rv 03. 1 0711 John Wilkes antd Thomans Johlnson. flirt'snghnit, Improve- tments in polrifying, or refining of cotpper. Id jed Ansitgul. 2!I, IS78. Janmen Henmdersrst, 'elckhtstt, 'Surey. finsprovementest inl cases or calls for containtng lrtrenervttd meats and other articles. Date-d N7ovenmber 01078. WIVlli ...

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... LONDON UVBRESPONDENCB Lelnary, TuLOkDONT af . Zeb>11,1879 ws i zcedout for6 dark p the ?? the flX 4 t ILs I baa hed the newsboys o dr4, t wuldil; gsting *to Swartgi 6 IOVe, Totaldtetthei DostUOi of thX whole Britidh Army. H iy, is Dot 'o bads that. The whole ariti srmy haa no ben defeated; the wole Bih Wmy ba not been eeatroyed. Bat andy ,50 Englifibms fightina to the last against 20,000 ...

... Y ir) IJ n A - v r T. v 7T AoT I\ to a. - MONDAY, FEIB A Y l ' 10 a : The chart represents the wt.rern b 'A b Europe, from Norway to the coa't of rldal, and d embraces Great Britain and the Dritieh IYs It a also includes the North Sea or Cerman Oceaan. the s Bay of Biscay, the Mcditerraueau, ?? Atlaitic, s with the Evglish Channel, EritnI Channel. z.na b Irish Sea. g a I~ i 'he 8 CoLne i ...

... e WOIRKHOUSE COMMITTEE. s Mr. Hewvitson uresided at the usual meeting of as Mr. Heewitson presided at the usual meeting of Ps this committee, held yesterday morning at the Xt parish offices, Brownlow-hill, and the other Lis members present were Messrs. Cropper, Towers, zh Laurence, Thompson, Jones, Woodcock, Smith, of Bennett, Lancaster, Fowler, and Lightbound. in It was reported that the ...

... On the evening of the 4th instant there was a. great fire in Rangoon, and as most of the houses in that town are built entirely of wood, fully a hundred buildings were destroyed in an hour. Of two-and a-half blocks of houses, only three struc- tures were left standing. One of these is the office of the lo^.al Tim s newspaper, and the Ran- goon Gazcttf explains that as the Times office was in ...

... A brilliant pageant was witnessed by the guests of the Lord Lieutenant and Duchess of Marlboro', at Dublin Castle, on Saturday night. After a grand banquet in the Picture Gallery to the Knights of St. Patrick, the Lord Lieutenant, as Grand Master of the Order, presided at the inves- titure of the Earl of Portarlington, as one of its Knights Companions. The usual ceremonial was gone through, ...