... -- ~~~~~~rage A very favourable week's fishing, adding eato, materially to the total crannage, was brought to highi a close on Saturday. Some of the heaviest shots 160 of the present or any season were landed, and,. Boal in several cases, fishermen's nets were so charged tots:, with fish that they had to be abandoned at sea, duni or given itn charge to the crews of boats less carr heavily ...

... ABERDEEN, Wetlnesday.-The remainder of the L herring boats that were at sea on Tuesday began to arrive at an early hour this morning, and continued to come in till about eight o'clock at night, by which S time the last for the day had arrived. Those that Si arrived in the earlier part of the day had been fishingL in the Benachie grounds, and were successful in land. L ing shots of from 40 to ...

... HAEIAMLET'S AGE AND SANITY. *Mr Wilson Barrett vbai promptly seized upon by o an interviewer at Sheffield, who desired, among other things, to knowv Mr Bartett's ideas on the age - and sanity ofHamlet. Mr Barrett said :-I differ as fl -to the age of Hamlet from a&great many people~2~or Sti 0 rather I did differ, for now I have won most of my Tb I bppoinents ovhr to my way.of thinking. I say ...

... II The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamship oi 6s Kaikoura, whilst proceeding to her anchorage in the ci 'n Sound during a thick fog on -Saturday, came into ir 11 collielon with the Plymouth trawler.Elizabeth Jose. .k The Kaikoura saw the trawler just in time to pot the F ,f engines full speed astern. Before she bad time to t ~j- gather steruway, however, her bowsprit struck the n ...

... RS. THE GOVERNMENT COITMISSIONER'S REPORT. *y the A letter from the Home Secretary accompanying neral the report of the Commissioner, Mr Bridge, who re- took cently held an inquiry into the election disturbances rfield, at Cardiff, was read on Monday at a imieeting of the io the Cardiff Town Council. The Home Secretary re- gang. frained from comment on the report, but suggested se-c, that at ...

... IMPERIA-L PARLIAMENT.- HOu'SE, OF IcommoN~S-FRIDAY V -The Speaker took~ the chai afor'cckwi THE TITHr ENIiE' WAR IN 'WALE Lot In ieply to Mir Hubbard, The HME SECRETARY- said the art~cle in the rJn Daily Ne~vs- on the~.titiie warmn-Wales was founded flb onfct.Sdbject to thtvariations provided. in 'the. oh Act bE -1836, tithe te~nt obharge wvas aIlga prsbr *,thf charge upon land: The, anouti ...

... ANGTUS AND MEARNS RIFLE- ASSOCIATI ON. ANNUAL PRIZE MEETING. Yesterday Ithe twenty-seventh annual prize meet- ing of this association was opened at, the Montrose ranges. The weather in the morning was driii and threatening, and for a tune it seemed as if the stic- cess of the meeting was likely to be interfered with Iby a deluge of rain. As the forenoon advanced, however, the stmnospherical ...

... AN ARGYLESHIRE CLERICAL SCANDAL A pro re naa meeting of the Presbytery of Lorn Pi was held in the vestry of St Columba Church on lal Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of appointing a I committee to inquire into to the alleged f.rnaa con- HE cerning one of its members. The fama, it is stated, Pe is to the effect that grave immoralities had been cor- no mitted in the neighbourhood of Loch Awe ...

... TIIE PARLIAMENTS OF 1886 AND 1886 CONTRASTED. The following table contrast Ithe Houses of Commons of 1885 and 1886, and shows the changes in the representation of the Counties. Burghs, and Universities of Scotland. COUNTIES. Name. A'berdeen . Argyll Ayr (North Dicision w.) Banf . . Berwick . Bute ...

... During lastweek thelherring fishing on the east coast (t was not very successful, there having been a decrease S in the number landed, and in most cases an in- feriority in the quality. On the Caithness coCst the fishing is considered as practically over, and the S shortcoming at Wick alone is estimated at 22,000 Li crans as compared with last year's take at the same P date. The total catch ...

... WJLLIAMI WALKME & SONS' UNRIVALLED TEA. SIX POUNDS FOR TEN SLLIN CASM: 52 UNION STREET, ABERDEEN A Crovwn of gold or a coronet of pearls is tae privilege of few to have, but any lady coa rejoice in a glorious head of hair- _ Niature's oQWl diadem and title to dignitv- by the use of Mrs S. A. Alien's World's Hair Restorer. MRS S. A. ALLEN'S fORLD'S W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ E[AIR RESTORER ...

... AGS21 2sE~RDEENT, SATURDAY, AUGU6ST 21, 1886. _he Queen has conferred the honour of a baronetcy on Lord Provost Clark of Edinburgh, and has conveyed through Viscount Cross to his lifrdship and the citizens her sense of the loyalty and devotion so clearly shown by them during her stay ather-ancient palace of Holyrood. Her .Yajestn accompanied by the Duke and Duchess ofConnaught, visited the ...