... If ?? ; d ?? ~~1 -. I HULL JUNIOR c6NSERVATIVE - :1 ' . ASSOCIATION. . I The new Club-room at the Royal Hotel, Queen-street, in connection with the Hull Junior Conservative Asso- ciation, was opened on Tuesdayby Mr H. S. King, M.P. S There was a very good attendance of members, and Mr e G. A. Sham the president, occupied the chair, among Ithose on tle platform being Mr R. M. Craven, Councillor ...

... UNITED ANCIENT ORDER OF DFUIDS HULL DISTRICT. rvlA A_ . . t .8 __ The annual dinner of the A. WV. Ansell Lodge 643, United Ancient Order of DruidseH dge hi was held on Tuesday evening, at tile Sll Hotel. Ex-Councillur Bro.AW. An~selrl, g fo . the lodge, took the chair, and Bro. J. W. iarperV ° treasurer of the lodge, occupied the vlctcrairA loyal and patriotic toasts having been given, flri 7 ...

... THE CHIEF CONSTABIESHIP OF HULL DEPUTATIONS TO THE MAYOR. On Wednesday a deputation, consisting of Mr J.. Milner, Mr Muliineaux, Mr Loten, and others waited upon the Mayor (Alderman Willows), and presented a request signed by nearly 200 influential ritepayers, asking him to call a meeting to take into consideration the conduct of the Watch Committee in completely ignoring the local candidates ...

... HULL,. HA-RITY RUSTEES I- The folInwin, Em. ?? - pte following has been forwardedby3l WilsonM'., forpublicationa:- Cx (COPY.) Char 9ityp Com1mission, .- Witehiall, S. W Sir*-Adverting to Your 0bFebru~Y iat with Air Alderman Witty athendant *at th state that this matter has teen considered byht t missioners with reference to what then paby8 te t the several communications and copy of re4, ...

... on BANXR !;EWT0Y BUSINESS IN THZE LZXDS DIs- vo jtfCT. -The returns made by the Official Receiver (Mr. ui John Bowling) of the working of the Bankruptcy Act iu at the Loeds district, which includes Leeds and Otley, for ta the second year of its operation, show that there were u- 109 petitions filed,- including two for the adijmiastration al of deceased debtors' estates, as against 99 in 1884. ...

... I THE MINISTERIAL CRISISi * HE . i'ONSULTATION OF UIBERAL 2ff _ .LADERe. Bel Ri L Rio 0mt T1IIATIONS WIT. T TI 2 ,, .- QUEEN. - gr St LONDO1y, Tueaday Xight, L! l The Press Association Bays-We have every reason to B] r believe that the bulk of the offices in the new Administra or tion have now boen allocated, and that the appointments fr will be officially published as soon as confirmed by Her ...

... 4|CHHAP-FARESFOAR RAILWAY SERVANTS TO THE EDITOtS 0PIT -FS LEEDS. MERCURY. GZNTLEMLM,-As the Lantashire aasd Yorkshire half- yearly meeting is to be held this month, allow me ta suggest for consideratioun n iaistime which, in the opiuiod of the servants ofI the company, woul i teed to raise the dividends. This is, to issue tickets at one fnrthing per mile for all servants of this compauiv aud ...

... THE LEEDS MERCURY. WEDNESDA Y, Atarch 24th, 1886. . A+ ?? SIR E. TniORNTON, it is stated, has been instructed to assure the Sultan that no chauge will be I made by the British (ovrn n,+ in ?? I made by the Britiph Government in the friendly L attitude of their preldecessors in office towards Tarkey, he and that 'the mission of Sir H. D. Wolff will not be cc hurriedly terminiated. Pt I PRIxCE ...

... P A RLIAMENTAII. N OTES. * Ectr 0o Coarixoa, Tuesday Fight. * Lord Ribbleedale emphasised his sudden departure from Mr. Gladstone's Government, by taking his seat this afternoon among the Tory Peers. A few days ago amember of a Liberal Government; to-night a Tory Peers l t si a sudden coiversion,aud will probably be the muat remarkable incident in the noble Lord's political career. The. Earl ...

... 'e1rom the Illustrated London News, January 23r d.) The will (dated November 15tb, 1878) of Ladv Katherine Bennerman, the widow of Sir Alexander Bannermsan, Bart., late of No. 37, Upper Brook-street, and Coghurst SHall, Suffolk, who udied on September GOth last, at Eastbourne, was proved on the 18th ult, by the Hon. Henry Robert Helabuirn Scott, the sole executor, the value of the personal ...

... LEEDS IATURALISTS' CON VESASZIONE. The Philosonhical Hall was last evening placed at the isnosal of the local Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association for a conversazione, which on all points was pleasant and successful. The prime object of the gather- jug was to signalise the kindness of the Corporation in gratuitously allowing the society the use qf accommoda- lien at the new MunicipaL ...

... . ;AV ;+4+SA The Select Committee of the House of Commons, pre- (di sided over by Sir J. RABSDEN, eat again yeeterday to 1 consider the Louth and Mablethorpe (Exrension to 64, buttoD) Railwly Dill onid the Sutton and Willoughby on (Extension to Mablethorpe) itailway Bill. Co Mr. PlErEn, Q.a., on. behalf of the promoters of the teE first-mentioned bill, explained that it would be a ques. i tion ...