... if some -I whede STRATHBOGIE FREE PRESEYTERY. etroted read This rev, body met in the vestry of the HuntIly Free ientous! Church yesterday-Rev. Mr Grant, Botriphnie, mode- aknow- rator. The other members present were :-Rev. Messrs d it is i Burnet, Huntly; Johnstone, 11arnoch; Ingram, ire also Rothiemay; Stoekdale, Grange; Stewart, Gartly; sd that Gray, Foohabers ; Macauly, Glass ; Moffat, ...

... Sltn ait HOUSE OF LORDS--MONDAy. nii Their lordships met at five o'clock. tic *RANGE-IFINDERS. W In. reply to Lord Truro, isi Lord BURY repeatted the statement be had made theie other night, to the effect that a considerable number of: ij range-finders land been served out to the army, and of. eli these a number had been furnished to the regiments at' 'to in- the Cape. j ha ich THE VETERINARY ...

... IABERDEEN SCHOOL BOARD ELE CTION.I of TO-DAV'S election, it seems, is to be pre- tey eminently a plumping one. The redoubtable ig, Mr Robertson, who has at length attained the Lok notoriety which seems to have been the craving -of his life-and who has yet to learn that a Lis- goose when placed on a pedestal is only more elf conspicuously a goose-is arranging with his ny supporters that they ...

... CcrRT-MARTIAL AT DEVONIPORT. DEVON PORT, Monday night. waya naval Court-MartiHIl, p'resided ever by Rear- Admial Hpe,5u1perinten'lenit of the DevoniportbIh peckyard, was opened aml board, the Royal Adelaide1 tl Whpfor the trial of niavigating Sub-Lieutenant¶ ofghi the gunboat G~oshawk, tensler to the flagship N 50~dgeat uesston, ho as rr igned on several o bair~leg *-let. For having, On or ...

... CORRESPINDEN?J E. >nr' THE XPROPOSED NEWY UCENSING ACT. ed TO THEE DITOR OF THB-'.ABERDREN JOURNAL.- za SIR,-The so-called independent members in the pro- ed sent Parliament seem determined to spend valuable tnt time unnecessarily in airing their several crotchets. A )CI good example of this is found in the Bill to Amaend the oh Licensing Act, introduced by Dr Caerneon and others, HP and ...

... p I ;I ,rtnre - and As the Session rolls on, and the foreign and lit an colonial troubles of the country increase instead a the of disappearing, the prospect of a not remote f the dissolution is calculated to raise feelings of Id the Lee ianxiety in all who would wish to see the Eastern L inr question and the African imbroglio disposed of Bank- as quickly as possible. We do not mean that tdhe ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... AGRIC ULTUItE. SALE OF THIE HED TmCs SIIOETHORNS -,t The shorthnorn herd of, Mtr Donald Fisher, MGriBn of: Keithick, Coupar-Angus, wras sold yc-terdaly by Mtr ,John Thornrton. This herd was immediiately started, aifter the very successful sale of the Pitluobrie herd ini ,1874, with some animalils ot kin'rvdie blood. The ani- rindas are singularly even andi alike ; the cows hiealdhy Bregular ...

... THE RELIEF OF EKO WE. ntrs I ti lin THE news from the column sent to relieve ri the Ekowe has been looked for with most intense t} [at anxiety by those vnho most adequately realised ir what bad news wsould have meant. Lord a led Ohelmaford was compelled to set out with his fit ist relieving force sooner than he had wished, Pz .owng to the rapidly failing strength of the al us- Ekowve garrison. ...

... Ix1pERIA L PARLIAMIENT. (B3y Twelegrasph from our ownCrrespodn) ,-e WFZsTMU*T5 Mlonday bight. Thle House of Lords met this evening for the first time after the Easter recess, and got tronegh its buMs- th' nets, which wats mostly of a formal character, ins less ren than half an hour. There was but a small attend- Cr asure, consisting of barely a score of peers, aboiut ha' eqiuallY divided ...