... IMPORTANT MEETING. On Tuesday, in accordance with a resolution passed at a meeting on Monday evening, a large number of the men employed in the Hull fishing-smacks struck work and refused to go to sea. The cause of the dis- sension on the part of the men is the newly-intreduced steam cutters. The men, it seems, much prefer the old system of bringing their fish to port themselves as soon as ...

... I HULL TOWN: COUNCIL. I . - The debate yesterday partook greatly of dreary &, platitudes, -and prosy reiteration. The subject of' the cattle market has been so thoroughly thrashed lie out' upon repeated occasions that it was simply. at 'remarkable how the members of the Council could -e. yeaterday'find matter sufficient in the question to a occupy them for several hours. The discussion had P ...

... I THE HULL TRADES AND THE FOREIGN SUGAR BOUNTIES. On Tuesslay night a meeting of the Hull Trades' I Committee, for the abolition of the foreign sugar t bounties, wag held at the Blue Bell Inn, Market-place, r with the view of signing an important memorial to be ! sent to the Lords Commissioners of Her Maiesty's Treasury. The chair was occupied by Mr. C. Jennings, of the Hull Cooper's ...

... _ _- _ _ __ v -. and m., .5E W-5- U ' J~vJLO~L On Tuesday evening the Rev S. G. Potter, D.D., VicarSi of St. Luke's, Sheffield, lectured in the Protestant Hall T on The Coming Struggle. The lecturer said that in his opinion the time was coming when there must be no neutral ground with respect to the Church. People must take ene side or the other, and it was better that they 01 should think ...

... CORRESPONDENCt l' : i PORT OF HULL SOCIETY AND SAI r . ORPHAN INSTITUTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PAc~UT - SiR,-The letter of Mr. Wills in leaves nay statements entirely unanswe larast issue r be very glad at great detail to prove an I should - assertions are erroneous. Hotever, as that his flrst f has seen fit to commence legal proceedin a gentlema, a of the agents of the society in ...

... : ~ ' . . XF I i~,ttie, x; - OYL sT~trU'TOK.-On1 S9attidy at thre6 oc~hk, ficN the Chairman, A. K. 'Rollt, Esq., LLD:, 'ill lecture on HE haieaa~ba ?? 316t iat .d ~~ Sa~&Cy; '7th. t day, ns. nT Life 'arrison, of the P~ost Ofc,~seneetda Lie onrary Member of the Hull Melchanics:' Instibtute, DI recognition of services rendered ha ii scientifio lecturer.- ,THE HUrLL TRAMWAYS' Radrirrs-.The ...

... It would be a mistake to suppose that the Liverpool election has in the least degree disturbed the confidence which the Liberal leaders feel as to the result of the next general election. So sure are they that the Liberals will come back with a small but compact majority, that the -arrangements.for the formiation of the 'next Administra- tion have been already under discussion.' The intentions ...

... About two o'clock on Friday morning a disastrous explosion occurred at Parrygraig Colliery, Rhondda Valley, South Wales, by which 86 lives have, it is feared, have been lost. On Thursday evening, at about seven o'clock, 93 men descended the pit, which is 415 yards deep, and has two shafts, about thirteen hundred yards apart, by which the naval steam coal is worked. At the time above mentioned ...

... ?? :ZE~s:::fa~vS~l Muffs' irenow df atse t' he theati& and. at :ball~;' Ahd al of 'Matin or- piish' . and trimmed with satin floweis. nd 'lacell The fan and handkerchief are carried in them,- or left tin them when not wanted. Fans have at all times d been favourite objects for the display of taste and S luxury.; it if indispensable that the painting on - the fan should be executed by soie well ...

... T- - C ORE1PO B OR -P ?? A G:.EPE. ?? ha| I .T13: iEFFECEFTS OF iFREE; TRAD)E. . - T& f TO U 'TEwDllOn ?? 'THE'' !HULLI 'Praomr.- ?? SrB;,,-i hiave read with interest the letters whioh Mr N. 'i'Bfl'any has published through the.inedium: of your ;ournal, and it has struck me that there are one or two!wais of looking at thbe question of. free trade which have escapedithe attentien oi the ...

... I THE SCULCOATES BOARD OF GUARDIANS I I AND- FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HUYLL PACKET. Srn,-In your report of the proceedings of the Scul- coates Board of Guardians, on the 22nd ult., we regret to notice that the invitation of this committee to that Board to take part in the forthcoming Friendly Societies' Hospital Sunday Movement appears to have been declined, and by some of ...

... I tID Aull ?? I1| FRIDA.Y, APRIL 8, 1881. |. THE GREEKS, or rather the so-called Hellenes, are determined to be what the Serbs were a few years ago- the match in the hayeart. More restless than the Servians, without one tithe of their industrial energy, the Greeks covet an exten- sion of territory which neither Europe nor Turkey is willing to grant. They covet tracts of couitry yielding ...