... ADDRESS ON OUR COLONIES. The monthly meeting of this association was held on Tuesday evening at the: Abereromibie Hotel, Campbell. street, when an address on Our Colonies was delivered by Mr H, J. Barratt. There was a large attendance of members. Mr W. T. Robinson (president), who presided at the opening of the meeting, after making a few remarks on political subjects, vacated the chair ...

... SALE OF LAND TO THE SCHOOL BOARD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PACKET. SIB,-I find that at the meeting of the School Board yesterday Mir Haller stated that I had offered him something to advocate the site offered by me for my client to the School Board. To this statement I beg to give a most unqualified denial. I never directly or indi- rectly made any such proposaL-Yours, &o., WILLIAM H. ...

... - BALE~ ?? .LSN~o BMAKS,; . I A, . . I A movement has been on foot for the last few weeks among the metropolitain brinks for an earlier closing rou Saturdays, and it is undlel.stnod that, with the excopti iu - of about two imporcaant iabuk, the 'decision.- i, ?? * mously favourable. MARRIAGE WITH A- DECEASED WIFE'S T res ' ?? 'SISTER. a The Pres As sociation understands that the Deo acred ...

... ad otb'Wist. I hear that Mr Cuthbert's complimentary dinner is fixed for the 3rd of February, at the Station Hotel, when, under the genial presidency of Mr Alderman King, J.P., the ex-Mayor, some forty or fifty of the leading patrons of the drama will assemble to drink Mr Cuthbert's health in a bumper. So successful has been the visit of the Romany Bye Company to Hull that the members, the ...

... on ts. The appointment of the Rev E. R. Wilberfe, she Bishop of Newcastle was gazetted on Tuesday. as )So Two men were killed by lightning on Mon0lay eveul lywhile engaged in a hay-field on Mr Stokes's fnroa a I Bransford, near MRalvern. at en The events in Egypt are producing renewed ?? ies and agitation among the Arab population in Taunis andt r4a Tripoli. ,he Guiteau's brother hag had an ...

... I A L _1_ _ _ - _ -as Ad - . A telegram from Dundee lays :-A lamentable rail. way accident occurred on Friday at Tayport, resulting in the death of three persons, and severe injuries to a large number of others. It appears that about seven o'clock the Edinburgh passenger train, due at Dundee at 7.35, ran with great violence into a coal train near Tayport, and that three persons, including a ...

... On WeJaesday at noon the Mayor of Hull (Alderman Leak) and the Sheriff (Mr J: Fisher) gave a grand luncheon at the Artillery Barracks. The Mayor pre. sided, and ?? was in the vice-cbair. Tae following is a list of the gentlemen who accepted invitations Lord Auoklaud (Vice-Presi'ient), Counoillor A WV Ansell, Conucillor J. Appleby, Alderman H J Atkinson, J.P., G Akrigg ?? RArkwright, Judge; NV ...

... ACCIDENT ON THE HULL AD BARNSLEY RAILWAY. I .A A l. .. L t - _ - ' _ _ _ , _ About half-past six o'clock on Tuesday evening an accident of a very serious character occurred on the Willerby section of the Hull and Barnsley Railway works. A large number of men are employed on this section of the line, and the men who reside in Hull and neighbourhood are taken to their work and brought back by an ...

... t The fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Committee f of the Hull Corporation was held at the Town.hall on t Wednesday, Mr Hodge in the ?? Medical I Offieer of Health (Dr Mason) presented his report, I which was as follows :-During the fortnight ending r July 15tb, 211 births were registered in the borough, q being a decrease of seven as compared with'those regis. I tered in the preceding ...

... DISGRACEFUL RELIGIOUS SQUABBLE AT KIRTON.IN.LINDSEY. MUTINY IN THE BLUE RIBBON ARHY. The quiet little town of Kirton-in-Liudsey has this week been the scene of a most disgraceful squabble in con. nection with a meeting of the Christian Evanqelistic Mission, a society similar to that of the Salvation 'Army. On Monday a contingent of the Gainsborough Blue Ribbon Army visited the town with a ...

... On Wednesday, at the fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Committee of the Hull Corporation, Mr Courn- cillor Hodge in the chair, the Medical Officer of Health (Dr Mason) reported that during the fortnight ending June 17tb, 209 births were registered in the borough, being a decrease of 4 as compared with those registered in the preceding fortnight, and an increase of 20 compared with those ...

... THE MAYOR ON LOCAL PROGRESS. A THE FREE LIBiRARY QUESTION. A meeting of the general oommittee of the above society was held yesterday at the offices, Exohange-buildings. the president (Alderman Witty) occupying the ?? 'oayfeld moved a resolution congratulating Alderman Leak (hon. secretary of the society) on his having been elected a third time to the office of Mayor, and trusting that he ...