... - i- ! ?? T -- : E SWEA.TER. A WEDNESDAY, J-UNE .28 The weather to-day has beeu cloudy at tbe masority of stations, butthere seems to have been an almost entire absence of raun, and the winds bave been very light iii fdrce. The chart for eight -aen. shmwed that tbe anti-cyclone which lay over France yesterdoy bad inereased alittle in height and- that the' brometer was iising slowly in that ...

... E The great seizure of- arms recently made at CO Clerkenwvell has given rise to considerable 3ox. correspondence in the columns of the Timees ft upon the subject of the practice adopted by = the War Office of selling old and condemned Ou mt, uzzle-loading rifles at ridiculously low day I prices. Mr. EDwiN H -. INswnBn, some time unde - manager of the Henry Rifled Barrel and Treli ?ie, Small ...

... ?- - I O 1, some . 6? es it . I - HBIREHAMPTON', 0 QUOI M.vcTAx.-A match was played b' the Shire. ibhnlton Cricket and Quoit Club members on Monday h and LueodAy. Twelve competitors eantered the list., TAs , following was the pairing on Monday evening:-R, Hatherall end J, King, 15 points; T. E. Osain and C. Weeks, 21 points. W. Jefferis and . Phillips. 21 pointsb .r A., Mayers and W. Ratberall ...

... UiNIVERSITY Co usGE, LONDON. I The annual distribution, of prizes at this Coileg ai the Faculties of Arts and Lawende Sience to plac yesterdacy afbraooantheBotracalTheatre, whih wamas hilled, chiefly by studeats anul thteir frien4a includilg & large number of ladies. The Eal of Kix. BEXXXY, President of the College, occupied the chair, and among those resent were Lord REea S:s (eorge Young, ...

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... Pretoria, June 20. Telegraphic communication between the Trans- vaal and the Orange Free States, and from here to Delagoa Bay, which has loag been defective, is now in course of being completed. Despite the sta.tem.ent to the contrary, the Boers are anxious for peace with the natives, in order to improve the country. The soxith*wost boundary line, which the Boers allege has been drawn in an ...

... THE ABERDEEN EN'GINEERS' FIELD WOibKS. The annual inspection of the Aberdeen Volunteer I Engineer Corps is to be conducted to-morrowy after- noon by Colouel Warranld, C.R.E., Fort-George. or some davs, the men have been exceptionally busy getting in readiness their field works at the Links. d to render them fit for the criticism of the inispecting J .oicer. The works consist exclusivei of ...

... THE COURT. WINDSOR CATLE, WEDNESDAY.-The Queen and the Duchess of Albany drove out yesterday after- noon, and Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Prin- oess Beatrice, and Princesses Elizabeth aud Irene of I-Iesse walked and drove. Hris Excellency the Turkish Ambassador.;and Mdlle. Musurus, his Excellency the Italian Am- bassador and the Marquise Menabrea, Earl Syd- ney, ?? Lord Steward; Earl ...

... GOVAN PAROURIAL BOARD, )r The usual meeting of the Govan Combination a Parochial Board was held ?? David d Bowman presiding. s- THE LUNACY DrsTmIcts BImTt. es Mr PATON called attentiou to the bill now before a Parliament giving Parochial Boards the power to e petition for the formation of parishes into lunacy Hedistrcts and suggested that the matter should be y remitted to the Assessment and ...

... THE RE'MAL OF IRELAND'S LEGIS- LATIVE INDEPENDENCE. fpa ,n mn rsmrtmn Fbe Ad -Ac,_ TO THE LOITOB br THU TBEEIL4-. Belleisle, June 27. Sin-Yegterday the Irishaimes published a statement from its Enniskillen correspondent that at a proposed ineetinA of the Loyal and National Association for the -Revival of Irelaud's Legisla- tive Independence, on June 23rd, Ilwas left alone in the town hall. ...

... . Wl stand, according to Lord SALIBURY, at a juncture possibly unparalleled in our recollection for its important bearings oin thc general interests of the empire. The Conservative leaders, therefore, have undertaken to interfere to guide the Goverinent in the management of one of the most difficult and complicated of international questions, from the platform of Willis's Rooms, under the ...

... SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE WATERWORKS ?? . Yeserilay a isew reservoir, constructed by [Ile Sollth 1 Staffordshire wateruvurk3 Comipany, wise! formally opened at B~urtori-on-Trout. At XLichuicld the oom~anly have reservoirsiund pumping enginies nuffloient to mi~l more tlann theordinary requirements oif Burton ; butte provide agaunst say possible emiergelicy, such as the bursating, of the maoinl from ...