... answers in this case came to-day for consideration. It wili be remembered that the petitioner, who is a Church of England minister at Chelsea, asked the Court compel James Citird, of the Seabeid Arms Hotel, Cullen, to deliver up rum the person of Ann Caird, his daughter, whom petitioner alleges he had married according to Scotch fashiou, word of uiouth, and also by writtea obligation. In his ...

... COMMITTAL OF M'WHIKTER FOB MTRDER. The man John M'Whirtcr, who apprehended iu connection with the outrage and murder of his paramour, the woman Hunter, the vacant piece of ground in Clair Street, waa fully committed for trial yesterday a charge murder. The police, we believe, have been successful their effort* to clear much oi the mystery which surrounded the perpetratiou of the foul ciime. At ...

... Riddell, Blackball, Paisley, m aid of the funds that institution. - Pneumonia Wigtownshire.— At meeting of the Local Authority in Stranraer yesterday, it was resolved to slaughter the whole stock on the two farms of Balneil, parish of New Luce, and Low Creachmore, parish of Leswait, which pleuro-pneuinonia has been found exist. On there are 35 cows aud other cattle, and on Low Creachmore two ...

... Alts UAL DINNER. The 47th dinner the members the Western Frieadlr Society took piece lest evening in the Grand Hotel, Charing Cross. The company numbered between (SO and 60 gentlemen, and waa presided over by Mr Hugh T. Orr (chairman) and Mr Franc. Gibb Dougall (croupier), those in immediate support being the Kev. Mr Brown (St Enoch's), Rav. Mr Leggatt, Dr Morton, Dr Menziea, Bailie Thomson, ...

... Johnstone Burgh Police force. The Johnstone Commissioners have created this additional post in their force view the growing requirements the town, and their action has been santioned the Home Secretary. Got:ROOK. Parochial Board. The quarterly meeting of the Parochial Board was held on Saturday. The Cemetery Committee was empowered erect a house for the superintendent. committee was, the ...

... Licensing Court.—At a meeting the Magistrate* yesterday afternoon application Mr Philip Bradahaw fur the tranaier Um (pint license 35 Street, lately held by Maclntyre Wood, was granted. Deiraudinq the way Coup AST. teaman, named James O'tiara, was charged before A. R. Pollok yesterday with travelling by railway on Saturday night from Port-Glasgow to Paisley without a ticket, and was sentenced ...

... past week was tollows:—Museum (open free Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, till 6. other days till dusk), Galleries, including visitors to Institute Exhibition, for both institutions, 7533. Captain Drc.vke.nne.ss. —The Liverpool Local Marine Board yesterday suspended the certilicata Captain Louis Murphy, formerly master of the Liverpool ship Nelson, for months, for having been guilty of drunken-1 ...

... MURDEROUS ASSAULT THISTLE STREET. A cue of murderous assault, which it is feared may terminate fatally, occurred yesterday after, soon a house Thiatle Street, Hntcheaontown, occupied by a cabinetmaker named John M'Phee. From the' information we hare received, it appears that some years ago M'Phee married a widow named Curistina Davidson, and took house at 75 Thistle Street, their domicile ...

... FIRST DlVlSlON—Thursday, March 20. PETITION. —MRS MURDOCH UK3 BOTD and others. ; Counsel were heard this in the appeal by Mary Murdoch or and others against the deliverance the liquidators the City of Glasgow Bank. The claim was Bad* the legal agents of the petitioners, who a letter to the liquidators claimed damages, the ground that they had been induced purchase stock the fraud of the bank; ...

... DaLxiiL.—None of tho eleven caadidatee nominated for the nine seats ia tho above Board having rOtirad, a poll will take place in Public Saturday the 32d inst, between the hours ot A.M. and aad R. Strattoa, solicitor, returning officer. A epirited oontest io Falubk (Bunoa). Yeeterday all seven retiring members this Board, who havs served sines ths first slection in 1873, were sgain nominated, ...

... While our shipbuilding yards, with their shores like the burnt trees a forest, suggest nothing but disaster, few yachts building at various yards on the Clyde is a change both pleasant and cheering. The big and little boats getting into shape at Fairlie might make a homeward voyager believe Glasgow never was more prosperous. At Greenock the delusion would be lost, and every mile further ...

... Abort twelve o'clock on Monday night ' *»r« ...