... t GREAT LOSE OF PROPERTY. THE, FIRE IN FORE STREET. Another of those extensive conflagrations which bare recently destroyed some of the business establishments in the centril of the city occurred early en Sunday morning, and threatened destruction to several long ranges of promises in Fore-street. Shortly before four o'clock Sergeant Weeks and P.C. Wheeler, of the city police, noticed a smoll ...

... e 4I can't really express my thanks, as the boysaid to the schoolmaster when he gave him a thrashing. L Mrs. B. refused to visit Mrs. A.'s apiary, because she tdisliked monkeys. To bee or not to be, that was the a question with her. e As they passed a gentleman whose optics were terribly on the bias, little Dot murmured: Ma, he's got one 'ye that don't go. Have you a mother.in-law ? ...

... ALWINGTON. thi A severe thunderstorm broke over Aiwington on Saturday Bc evening last, commencing between seven end eight, and be raged centinuously until Sunday evening. The lightning RE was vivid, and the claps of thanderloud No accidents lie have been reported. ?? Special services were held in the parieb church on Siumday in lest, when the Right Reverend the Lord'Bishop of Honolulu I)I ...

... A party of eighteen convicts wvere on- Wednlesday emnploy~.ed, in connection arith buildings at Dartmoor prison, in raising sand for building pserposes. They wverie under the charge of warders Kelly and Cole and two civil guards. Bel' One of thie convicts, Murray, refusing to work, Warder Bit Kelly remonstrated with him,' when he comitnenced to throw Fri stones, wounding the warder and ...

... LO,,,DoN,, November 13, 1882. Cold and dismnal weathcr has settled upon us. The maornings are frosty, the afternoons foggy, and the evening's wet. We are not far from the cattle-show wreek and the Christmas festivities, but still the light burns brightly out- aide Westminster Hail, where the faithful Commons, like good children, attend every evening in order to understand how freedom of speech ...

... PRIZE DAY IN rHE SCHOOLS. EXETER 6ORAIMATI SCHOOL. - T There wvas a larga ?? Of Govarliors arid frienlds a; Gos tlce teater G rammar Sch~ool, las Weeodoy3 afternoon0 on theet the occasion o ath'i,- break-tspj for thle Cirioteuss tori holidays. Amerg thoso pros'o'it wiv the tt~lat Rey the r Lord Bishop of sirs Dioecese the Rig'rt Wos hipt oll chs sobs Mayer (S. JonesF, tspa.), Sir Jobs' ...

... EXETER SCHOOL -BOARD. The usual monthly meeting of this Board was held at the office, Bampfalde-street, last Thursday afternoon. The Chairman (Mr. W. Barnes) presided; and there were alslo present Messrs. Rowe, Lloyd, Gadd, Clapp, and Daw.-The Finance Committee reported that the balance in hand at the last meeting wae £195 12s. Id. Since then £34 Bs. 2d. had been paid as school fees and £8 2a, ...

... The passions, like heavybodiesdownsteephills, oncein motion move themselves, and know no ground but the ?? ADVERTIrSNG BY THE ANCIENTS.-Tho Romans largely advertised private as well as public matters, and by writing as well as by word Of month. They had their prwesres, or criers, who not only had their public duties, but annonuced the time, place, and conditions of sales, and cried things lost ...

... I THE ADVENTURES OFAN AMERICAN I SPECIAL. Condense, young man, condense. If you want to get on in life, condense. These words were addressed to a young reporter by the venerable Horace Greely, in the writer's hearing; and indeed the journal he estab- lished and conducted with honour and profit for so many years, was a happy illustration of his maxim. Some- times it happens that the ...

... VAXRIETIES. A drop of ?? Falls of Niagra. .An air of ?? first breath. b, Strapping ?? and schoolmasters. *r PARADOXIoAL.-Tea comes from China and yet is t poured into it. When a pretty Irish girl is stolen away they always 0 suspect some boycotter. d Electricity in Franklin's time was a wonder; now we 1, make light of it. | A piece of steel is a good deal like a man; when you Vgot it red ho it ...

... I CORPORATION OF THE POOR, The usual wekly mieting of this: {oird was held at the office, New Buildings, yesterday. The Governor (Mr. R. Rouse) presided. The pauper report for week ended Saturday last was read as follows:-Indoor, 316; out-door, 1,294; out-relief, £130 ls. 2d. ; vagrants, 66. Corresponding week of last year 3519; 1,197*; £138 18s. 7d. ; 64. - The CLERi (Mr. Huxham) read the ...

... The usual weeldy meeting of this Board was held at the office, New Buildings, yesterday afternoon. The Governor (Mr. R. Rouse) presidedi. Before the commencement of the general business of the Court the CHAIRMAN remarked that he wanted to say a few words of their respected friend Mr. Mortimer. Since the Board's last meeting, the Lord, in His infinite mercy, had I called another from their ...