... | Numiansa 2. O'Connor was petitioned against on the ground that being a County Member he had not a sufficient property qualification, i.e., £500 per annum arising from land. He went before the Election Committee, and was weighed up, when, in consequence of some of his land being on the other side of a broek, he was held to be short of the Jegal £500. He lost hia oeat, and was expelled the ...

... THE CHRONICLE. .- - -- -- - - . L : . X Et- ',g,4ToNV, S-TUR)AY, JANUAiR 3, 18so. _ _ - = - - - -- -- Irlish 'Thle social history ot this country during the of Co ear just closed, lihas been an uneventful one. did th litil wvithlin the last week the terrible accidents they ,,hiCh followcd one another with such start- thle ,l;D rapidity in the previous year have been wider conspicuous by their ...

... gual BjW0 I T. WILFRID'S LONG~RIGE.-ThO atnnul CAN IChristmas tea party Was held in St. Wilfrid's School, Pitt- Aintliff tastefully decorated, festoons and garlands of evergreens, DANI fancy paper chains, &cc., and appropriate mottoes adorn- for leani ilog tho walls. About 100 sat down to an excellent tea, M which was prosided over by the following ladies :-Mies arrived.. Annie Waring, Miss M. ...

... I LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND I HUMANE SOCIETY. At a meeting of the committee of the above Eocidaty, herd IosterdAy, the foglowing awards were made- BEWARD3 FOR GAL!AXTRY IS SIV3IZ Ir. 2os. each to John Doodson and George Henshaw, dock labDurers, for having jurmpedinto the West Waterloo Dock on the 22nd ultimo, and rescued a moan who uad fallen from the Aide of a vessel, and received llunry to his ...

... I 1. . I ..7 -- ' ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? nk P le in ~KIRKHAM. liver TEACHERS AND SINGESoi' BALL.-On Saturday evening, tin- the teachers and singers held their anneal hail in the lowa N~ational Solhool-roona, irlebam. About 200 sat down to iola- ten, after which dancing commenced, and a moat enjoy- my able evening was spent. Songs and glees were inter- ions spersoed throughout the ...

... MR. GLADSTONES' BIRTHDAY.-CELE- BRATION IN PRESTON. A grand Liberal tea party and meeting in celebration of Sr the seventieth birthday of the. Right Hon.- W. E. The a'i Glad stone took place in the Assembly Room of the Corn origin Exchange on Tuesday night. An excellenlt tea 11as TemrpE provided and heartily enjoyed by about 690 persons, presids amongst thle ladies presiding being the ...

... LONDON, FRTDAY~ It has been fated for several years past that the week following Christmas, which ought to bring us little else to think about than our social arrangements and our plans for the New Year, should be marked by some calamity which has cast a gloom over the closing days of the twelve months. We have this year to mourn the greatest of them all. Without a moment's warain, more than ...

... | ATAL BOILER EXPtOSION AT ROCHDALM. On Wednesday morning, at 4, the boiler , tie chamnworkS of -Mri. -Tomas B Dodeonstreet, i.Bkchdale- exploedd, killing -Mr. Thomas Baker and his son . James' Baker, and injuring a workman nanmed John Butterworthl The works aro two storeys. high, about 20- feet in length afid 20 feet- in. width. A small Cornish boiler was under a wooden shed sp againesthe ...

... The Boer meeting dispersed quietly after adopting a resolution to meet on April 6. Mr. Kruger has been elected president by the Boers, and has been instructed to summon the Volksraad; Sir Garnet Wolseley, at a dinner at Pretoria, has announced that henceforward the Transvaal would be iegsrded as a Crown colony. THE FIGHTING WITH THE NAG-AS. ,Details have reached the Times of India of the ...

... TlE STORU_ AND FLOODS. LIVERPOOL. A fresh gale from the south-west blew during o; the whole of yesterday, and in the early mornig , there was a considerable downpour of rain. The weather was bright and clear for the remainder of n ths day, and the barometer in the evening stood slightly above 80 inches, ricing steadily. The bo otmosphere was rather colder than on Wednesday, the thecmometer ...

... A1 Mi GLADSTORM$5Rp t ,O: rss3I -m i:~ t . II 1 'p~NTA~ION'AT AWARDEN. el The70t anivesey of Mr. Gladstone'S birthday T ?? and,-5 inn -kf ly Btiif wege where he aund all thirenmebers ofhis f ?? ths g the Liberals. of Liverpool the place aSE ''of - his - birth,.:~ con~eeivedthe 7oftheirdistibn- d quet an the birthday annvesflyof ithr distho-e a -guished townsmaot wio o asind it -was hlopedi ...

... I - LONDON E T ,ERS (FROM A OtRIBBSPONDENT.) For the moment the terrible aceident at Dundee has thrown every other topic into the shade. The deepest in- terest is taken in every detail which has been received since the first news was published on Monday morning. The first arrival of the news in London produced a con- siderable sensation, and recollections of thc Princess Alice disaster were ...