... LOCAL GOVERNMIENT BOARD INQUIRY. Applicationhaving been made by ?? for leave to borrow a little over £1,000 for works of sewer- age, water supply, and street improvement, Mr. Arnold Taylor, one of Her Majesty's Inspectors, attended at the Guiidhall on Thursda to old the usual inquiry. There were present: Councilors Courtenay (Chairman of the Streets Committee), Commings, Wippoll, J. C. Guest, ...

... A. special meeting of the Exeter Guardians was held on ?? afternoon to consider the terms of the appointment Iof a chaplin for the Exeter Workhouse. Mr. Alexander (Governor) presided; there were also present-Messrs. Rouse, Bond, Pope, Scott, Rowe, Hodge, South- wood, Tucker, Fymn, Algar, Hughes, Voiseyi Yelland, 1Carlisle, Wilkinson, Brown, Petherick, Counmings, 0. a Angel, W. Pollard, Lawless ...

... 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 ...

... The . THE CONFERENCE. The Conference held a second meeting on Sunday at the Italian Embassy at Therapia. The proceedings consisted V chiefly of an interchange of views. As no secretaries were n present, and no protocol was kept, the deliberations had an 1i intimate and confidential character. The chief practical Y result was the production of somewhat clearer views as to the objects of the ...

... o- ,f THE BANFFSHIRE ELECTION. f The writ for Banffshire was issued yesterday, and the nomination fixed for Saturday next. a FJUNERAL OF MR. W. BOURKE. 8 The funeral of Mr. Walter Bourke took place at d Bammacarol Chapel, Mayo, yesterday. All deeoased's a relatives attended. DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORMS. The locality of King's Lynn was visited by asevere e thunderstorm yesterday. A farmhouse was ...

... A Cooking Club - The rolling-pin. Cats have no political belief. They are usually on the fence. When a husband does not come home to dinner, his wife sometimes imagines it is one of his fast days. Next to the man who wants toborrow money from you, a dog is frequently the best friend s. man has. HOW TO KEEP YOUYSULF DRa.-Eat freely of red herrings and salt beef, and don't drink. Are you lost, ...

... TEIGNMOUTH DISTRICT CON- SERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. p aectiiJF of thle members of the above association was I ti~ld at 16t, Northutifberlanid-placi, East Toignmouth, on I Friday O5'Qtinu for the purpose of formally handing over th, net club-r-owm to the aseociated Conservative Working I ~ lb u~i~tal ocetalyitted, and comaprises s lr reiltliflrtoii, variouls offices, antd kithehn. The rc,,lin-rooia ...

... i |WerEIr.1 MEaTING, FIUDA1.-Tho Chairman (thc hen. and R1ev. . If. Courtenay) presiding. The pauper report was read as ?? relief this week, £187 19s. 7d.: last week. £189 10s. 2d. ; tho corresponding week last year, £187 Gs. 8d. ; outdoor paupers, 2,17,1 2.178; ).G164 indoor paupers, 1i55; 16; 162; total paupers, 276;2 331 96 vagrnts, S;7 S. The report of the Treasurer showed balance in hand ...

... ON BOARD THE EAGLE. The clock had struck eleven. We were still sitting on thc hearthrui nt our chamber, 3Mary and I, over the vemains of the wood fire that had sparkled and cranked in the huge old fireplace. We had been tallking, instead of undressing; and, under tle inlnuenc of the bright fire, the talk had been gay and frolicsome, so, under the shade of the dying fire, our conver.ation ...

... I LOrNDON, June 5, 1882. Everybody is back in town, and everybody is full of politics. it wos aill Ireland on tho Eve of thle Rocoso. To-dayit is all Egypt. uddlme on muddle-naisfortine on moisfortune! 'hat, us far asI an see or hear, sums up in three or four words tho pith of public criticism. The Liberals look upon this. Egyptian ifcnmeeoitt as a pure mis- fortuno- at bolt frint the blue-a ...

... GARIBALDI, FRANeE. Garibaldi is dead. The French Republic had made an s idol of that respectable nonentity. Those solemn idiots even called him to the help of our country in 1870-ho came, accompanied by a horde of bravos, who pillaged our eastera provinces. This appeal to the valetudinarian of Caprora was the beginning of all the insanities committed k by Gambetta. At last he is dead; and ...

... PRESENTATION TO MR.A. SOU H EY. I Oi Mondav ovelning a vely pleasant social gathering B took place in 'the Coifee Roolm of the Rougemont Hotel, to on the occasion of a presentltion to Mr. Aug.ttins Southey, t the late Ileo. See. of the Exeter Literary Society. The 5V friends and members of the society, to the number of fifty, T sore provided scith al excellenrt supper by the manager of Pt the ...