... HULL PAOKET OFFICE, Friday Zorniinxq. BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY. A Board of Trede inquiry was held at Cardiff yeater. day in reference to the loss of the steamer Cygnus, of Newcastle, which left Cardiff in February for Port Said with coal. The court was unable to find the caue of 10s8. MEETING OF YORKSHIRE COLLIERY OWNERS. An important meeting of the colliery owners of West and South Yorkshire ...

... ALLEGED EXTENSIVE LONG FIRM .SWINDLING IN HULL. On Friday, at the Hall Police Court, before Mr E. 0. Twiss, stipendiary magistrate, George H. Tarelli, de- scribed as a commercial traveller and commission agent, was charged on remand with conspiring with a young woman named Mary Farrell to defraud Messrs Robin- son and Co., and Messrs Rae, Donaldson, and Boyd, wholesale warehousemen, ...

... THE SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIC IN. TTHE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE PROPOSED CLOSING OF THE SCHOOLS. Bit the ordinaiy meeting of the Hull School Board on Wednesdas, Mr Stratten presiding, the Board went into Committee for the purpose of considering the resolution passed by the Sanitary Committee with respect t~o the closing of the schools for a fortnight lafter the usual Christmas holidays in consequence ...

... THE CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE - BILLS. l I - e . .. .. .. _ . , . . . Some dissatisfaction, says the Daily Chronicle, is felt hea among a section of Liberal members of the House of thi Commons on account of the 'indefinite postponement of to the second reading of the Customs and Inland Revenue rei Bill. lat PAYMENT OF ARMY PENSIONERS. an ' In consequence of representatiens made by Baron oo. ...

... LIBER EONSTRETION AT ~~~GAINSBORUH On Monday the Liberal Association of Gainsboroughl inaugurated its first rdunion at a banquet, at which Lord Yarborough presided, supported - by Lord Monson, Messrs F. J. S. Foljambe, MAP., F. T. Mappin, MtP J. S. Leadam, M.A., Saville Smith, J.P., Mayor of Louth; J. Bennett, J.P., Louth; Alderman Bennett, Grimsby; and others. The banquet was held in the Old ...

... WHAT THE WORLD SAYS. Blood is thicker than water. When the foreign ships steamed out of Alexandria harbour, to leave the coast clear for the impending action of the English fleet, the Americans played 'God save the Queen,' whilst the others passed in silence. When the fight was over, and the British required assist- ance to restore order, the American marines were the first to land to help ...

... ct THE POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. y A meeting of the above association was held on Mon- Es day evening, at St. Silas' Schoolroom, Oxford-street, the ,e president, Alderman Witty, occupying the chair. There h was a good attendance, and amongst these present were Dr Dix, Dr Walton, Dr Williams, Messrs Merritt, Musgrove, J. Ashley, B. Matson, G. Selby (boo. sec.), &c.-The Chairman, in opening the ...

... r An ordinary meeting of the above Board was held on Wednesday at the Town Hall, the deputy-chairman L (Alderman Chepman) presiding. SCHOOL STATISTICS. n Oa the 80th ult. the Clerk reported the following 11statistics to the Bye-laws Committee:-Number of y children on the register, 13,334; highest number present 11 at one time, 11,259, number in average attendance; s, 10,708; per centage of ...

... - ti (From the Live Stock Journeal.)s3 THE COTSWOLD SHEEP.-Since the time when Edward S the First made' a present of (Jotswolds to Alphonso, a, King of Spain, these long-woolled sheep have held their si pre-eminence. On the bleak hills, with an eight ir months' winter, and four too cold for summer, the Hill flockmasters claim for their favourites the first position it for hardihood and ...

... NORTH MYTON WARD BYE-ELECTION I I . ._ MR BE1NNETT'S CANDIDATURE. Per The first meeting of ratepayers in support of the w canidaur ofIMr, W. A. Bennett, in conneotion withpi the,.above .eleotioin, to fill the vacancy in the Townse Councill caused byj the death of Mr Scott, was held on sh Monday eveningi in the Committee-room, Prospect. dte- street, There wan a crowded room, and the meeting Cex ...

... 9 INQUEST ON THE BODIES. SEVERAL ARRESTS. Lord Frederick Cavendish, the new Chief Secretary of Ireland, and Mr Burke, the Under-Secretary, were assassinated on Saturday evening, in the Pbonix Park, Dublin. No outrage of recent years has created any- thing like the excitement manifested in the city as the facts of the dual murder became known. So atrocious seemed the bare rumour of the tragedy ...

... I I - I be MESSRS CASSELL AND CO'S. PUBLICA- ,, TIONS. The Mfagazine of Art for August is beautifully illustrated, the frontispiece being copied from the picture by G. H. Broughton, ?? 'The Heir Presumptive.' Alice Maynell also writes on the work of Mr Broughton, and other samples of his al art are given. 'Japanese and Chinese Bronzes,' g. by George Wallis, is a very interesting article, and ...