... 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 ...

... Local 3Intelligence. l ROYAL INSTITUTION.-On Saturday, at three o'clook, R. P. Scott, E~sq., B.A., Vice Principal, Hull and East Riding College, will licture on Shelley. HULL STREET Ta~unvays.-The traffic receipts of the Hull Street Tramways for the week ending Saturday, the 31st December, 1881, were 2288 17s 2d; corresponding week last year, £247 17s 5d. BOURNE CHAPEL YOUNG PEOPLE's ...

... | AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF LINCOLN. I SHIRE. rt~y. The St. .James's Gazette contains the following ?? as naturally isolated from the rest of Britain teas East Anglia, Sussex, or Cornwall, the practical ling peninsula of Lincolnshire has nearly always formed a atas sprt and easily- recognized division of the land ing throughout all filatosrical or prehistoric time. It is rery true,-.In its ...

... 'DiStTict Neb3s. We regret to announce the death of Lady Bolton, the wife of Lord Bolton, of Bolton Hall, North Yorkshire, which sad event took place on Wednesday morning. The criminal business at the North Riding Quarter Tessions commenced on Wedne~iday at Northallerton The chairman (the Ron. J. C. Dundae, M.P), congratu. I'ted the Grand Jury on the sensible diminution in the .mount of crime ...

... UNSANITARY ACOUMULATIONS IN HULL. PROPOSED PROSECUTIONS. At the fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Committee of the Hull Corporation, on Wednesday, Mr Hodge pre- ?? Osborne, Nuisance Inspector, reported as follows :- I have to call your attention to the unsani- tary state of Aurora.street and EiluA-street, and the large accumulations of manure. Several of the yards are 1it or 20 inches in ...

... F ATAL ACCIDENT ON THE HULL AND i BARNSLEY RAILWAY. I ALLEGED UNKIND TREATMENT BY NURSES AT THE INFIRMARY. An inquest was held at the St. George's Hotel, Newing. ton, near Hull, on Friday afternoon, before Mr J. M. Jennings, coroner for the district, on view of the body of Thomas Barwell, 25 years of age, who met with such serious injuries on the Tfull and Barnsley Railway on the night of the ...

... JOTTINGS FROM SOUTH - AFRICA. (BY A LINCOLNS}URE IUAN.) In several streets in Da Toits Pan, the water, charged with fine sand, descended in such quanti- ties as to assume all the appearance of a swiftly- flowing river. The work in the mine was, of course, suspended, overseers and natives making their escape from the claims as best they could, whilst a scene of activity was witnessed in the ...

... t By SiPLANFTES. My companion proved to be a, young Georman r about twenty-three years of age, and as stupid as . they make them. But there was a bond of sym- . pathy between us. lie, too, had been a victim of e Old Rooney's, but whereas my stay had been for e two days only, Fritz had borne his martyrdom for two months.imatro fr I asked how he came to leave. He explained that the feelings of ...

... s (From the Live Stook .Tournal,) ,3 ENGLisn LIvE STOCK IN NEW ZEALAND.-Continual s additions are being made to our stock by the importa. s tion of stud animals from the old country. A consign. 0 ment arrived in Canterbury the other day in splendid a condition, consisting of two magnificent Southdown e rams, from the flock of the Prince of Wales, at Sand- I ringham; seyen fine Lincoln and ...

... I , _ iv ACCEPTANCE OF A TENDER, Yesterday a special meeting of the Lighting Committee of the Hull corporation was held at the Town Hall, for the purpose of receiving tenders for the lighting of White- friargate, the Market-place, and other portions of the old _ town, and the Town Hall with, the electric light. Mr Elam, the chairman, ?? Mayor called atten- tion to the fact that though the ...

... THE LONDON PRESS ON, THE EVENTS I.- - OF THE YEAR, The Times remarks that the year 1881, though not distinguished by wars or revolutionary changes of the first magnitude, presents a record of memorable an-d 'important events in almost every country In the world. At home the Irish-difficulty has grown to the most for- midable proportions, British agriculture, already sorely smitten, has had to ...

... S N . I :LATIEST NEWSY . _ ~ ~ ~ ~ HULL PACKgT OFiUpE1, Fpiday Morninq. .e ee OUTRAGES IN IRELAND. y __ d A farmer named Cullmane has died from the effects it of injuries inflicted on him near Kil, county Waterford. d He was returning, a few days ago, from Waterford, in d the evening, and when about. two miles from home three mon stopped his horse, dragzed him out of the cart, robbed him, and ...