... [TIKH PROPRIETORS OF THE PACKET AND TIMES HAVE OBTAINED THE EXCLUSIVE EIGHT OF PUBLISHING THE STORY IN THIS DISTRICT.] PHANTOM FORTUNE,1 BY MISS BRADDON, Author of Lady Audley's Seoret, Taken at the Flood, A Strange World, Dead Men's Shoes, -Weavers and Weft, RJstas I am, &o., &C. CHAPTER IV. (CONTINUM). No sooner had the Fraulein turned the corner of the shrubbery than Hammond ...

... S:ERIOUS STRIKE AT THE ALEXANDRA O DOCK WORKlS. I . . . . .. . . I An extensive strike is at present going on amongst a di large number of men, comprising the masons, brick. Po layers, fitters, blacksmiths, turners, and labourers em- lo ployed in the construction of the Alexandra Dock hl Works, Hull. Their demand is that they should be h( allowed to cease work on Saturdays at one o'clock se ...

... SALE OF LAND TO THE SCHOOL BOARD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL PACKET. SIB,-I find that at the meeting of the School Board yesterday Mir Haller stated that I had offered him something to advocate the site offered by me for my client to the School Board. To this statement I beg to give a most unqualified denial. I never directly or indi- rectly made any such proposaL-Yours, &o., WILLIAM H. ...

... ad otb'Wist. I hear that Mr Cuthbert's complimentary dinner is fixed for the 3rd of February, at the Station Hotel, when, under the genial presidency of Mr Alderman King, J.P., the ex-Mayor, some forty or fifty of the leading patrons of the drama will assemble to drink Mr Cuthbert's health in a bumper. So successful has been the visit of the Romany Bye Company to Hull that the members, the ...

... FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.: I TAEIR ORIGIN AND POSITION. LECTURE BY. ALD. SYMONS, X-.R.IA. The monthly meeting of the Amalgamated Friendly Societies was held on Friday in the Foresters' Hall, Charlotte-street.-Mr W. Coates, ?? occupied 'the chair, and there was a large attendance. The Chairman, in a few introductory remarks, introduced Mr Alderman Symons, who, he said, would deliver a lecture on ...

... I .t the Police-court, on Wednesqay. before Mr Twiss, stipendiary magistrate, George Tripper, a youth, tram conductor, was charged with feloniously embezzling and stealing the sum of 3d, the property of the Rull Street Tramway Company, on the I1th March. BMr A. Rollit ; appeared to ?? Warner, tramway in- spector, deposed that on Sunday, the Ilth inst., he gave the -prisoner his bag, punch, ...

... IMPORTANT HULL STREET IMPROTE- XENT SCHEM01. On Fiday, at a meeting of the Hull Streets Improve- ment Committee, held under the presidency of Alder- Th masn Waller, the Chairman and Borough XEnginear days, submitted the following list of street improvements. A which have been, suggested' by themselves or other latinj members of the Council, and some of which have Glad: already been agreed upon ...

... I I NARRATIVE BY THE SURVIVOR. The loss of the steamship Iris; of Hull, on an outward voyage to Port Said, has already been reported, On Tuesday evening the schooner Elfrida, of Plymouth, which sails between that port and Corunna. with cattle, arrived at the Great Western Docks, Plymoutb, having on board George Chirgwin, of Penzance, the only survivor of the Iris crew. A declaration has been ...

... m5RT LEICESTERSHIRE BLEOTION. The nomination for North Leicester ire took place at Loughborough on Saturday. Major the Ron. Montagu CurzDn, Conservative, was the only candidate put forward, and he was accordingly duly elected. BANISHING THE IRISH. The last of the Irish families have left Turton, near Darwen, as requested by the English section of the in. habitants. There was no demonstration ...

... MR. T. KING'S NEW CLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT, MARKET-PLAC.E AND QUEEN-STREET. It will be recollected by all frequcnteprs of Tvarket- place what a singularly desolate appea'ance was given to the most conspicuous block of buildings in it by being untenanted for the past eighteen months or s0. Now. however, this desolation and ugl' aspect are more than taken away by its recent occupancy. These ...

... w =mvqu -X=,ent. as HOUSE OF. COMMONS.-FAIDAYT. Mr Wharton presented a petition from the licensed iy victallers of ngland -and Ireland, through the Trade Protection poeieties of London and Dublin, against Local 1,Option.. Mr Gladstone, in reply to Mr Yorke, said the Govern. e ment miust postpone, though. he would not say indefi. nitely, proposal. for the reform of local taxation, and In when ...

... miotrict Xews. A joiners' shop, in the occupation of Mr John Trickebt, Scarbro', has caught fire and been burned down. The Sneaton and Hawsker Foal Show will be held In August. At a meeting of the Malton waywardens on Saturday, they agreed to pay a rental of £5 for the use of the Town Hall. On Sunday a widow named Morton, between 60 and 70 years of age, died suddenly at her residence, 15, ...