... ISPECLIA TELEGAM &I l sp E s sI H3LM.disn _tropship Orooodite, from Ports. mouth en rovM to Bombay, passed ?? yeotev. day.-ReuT. At a meeting of the Uuited German Telaeap Coinmpw yesterday, shareholders representing 19,735 shaes attended, and unanimously approved the sale of the company's lines to the German Government as proposed by the drctiram-Beouar, The pla'tation Kibueni, situated on the ...

... IVOL U, UNTBE R P RIZE DISTRIBU, TION| I AT SOUTHPORT. C COLON2'EL MACFIE AND THE TORIES. wE Last night, the annual distribution of shooting t! prizes to members of the 9, B, and C companies & of the 13th L.R&.7. took place in the Cambridze Thm EaL, Southport, M~rs. M~acfe performing the cere- V mony. Colonel Mactie (co~one1 commandiug) pre li eided, end was supported by the officers of tbe E ...

... THE SITUATION IN IRtELAND, Mr. Henry FitzGibbon, Q.C!, has been ap., poinesd by the Lord Lieuteaant of Ireland to *e county court judze for Antrinm and recorder for Belfast, as succsor to Mr. l;nvid Rosm, Q.Q, who died three weeks sinco. Mr. PAiuca' SImcE-Writinz with refer- ence to the movements of Mr. Parnell and bis l1ng cilence on public affairs. Mr. T. Hasritotgk MJP., in the course of a ...

... X D I . _ _ GREAT FI.RE AT CHESTER, The 1argezr fire whicha hoe taken psc at Gbosie i for mauy ytrs broke out at aL esasy hour yeaster. dy mornig on be premises sif MAe Lmmo Lrno and So, phosslsterers and furniture ianutic- tauerr, situated in Estgate-street, Tbe alarm was given by Polioe-cvastable 131 ab;ount two a.u. The officor wyas on Uis beat when he saw fames bursting out from ?? ...

... LOCAL NEW& I ITH JmsrPz FASCY DBes BALL AT BoomL. -The ar angements for the juvenile fancy dress bal1, to be given by the Mayor (Mr. Alderman J. Howard) and Mayoress of Bootle, on Friday night next, at the Town HElali, are almost com- C pleted, and the interesting eveng prmi to be i very successful. Beween two and three hundred tk invitations have been accepted hi t Cwr ?? HozDn&aS-A movement ...

... BIRTHS & DEATHS IN TWENTY- EIGHT ENGLISH TOWNS. FORTY-SIXTH WEEK, 1887. I In the week ending Saturday, November 19, 5704 births and 3747 deaths were registered in 28 of the largest English towns, eat-mated by the Registrar-General to contain a populatwan of f9,244,09 persons in the middle of this year. The births were 77 ielow, wvhile the deaths exceeded by 101, the average weekly numbera ...

... OUTIUNG H&1R orS Cowe TAiin-For cutting hair off cows' tails, a man named Wi&iMaTolmnstot has been sentenced by the magistrates at Shap, near Pearith, to three months imprisonment m each of two caess. The prisner bad gone to various farms and mutilated the tails of the cows, no fewer than 21 beasts haliag beeo operated upon. The hair was afterwerds offered for sale. CHZE= AGflIICLTUML Socizvy. ...

... MORE SCENES AT V EST DERBY LOCAL BOARD, It is a sad sort of pleasure that the ratepayer. of West Derby derive from time to time in reads ing the records of the scenes at meetings of their local board. A special meeting of the board took place last night at the offices, in Green-lane, and the noise and confusion that repeatedly prevailed were even greater than heretofore. Dr. Fitz- patrick ...

... 1 Mr. Osborne Morgan addressed another vrv crowded mneeting of his constituents at the Brynteg Board Sohools, Broughton, near Wrexham, last night. Mr. Thomas Charles, of Brymbo, occupied the chair, supported by Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, Lr. ?? Abraham, MOP. (3fabon), Mrs. Abraham, Mr. Tilson (secretary of the North Wales Liberal Federation), and several local leaders of the Liberal party. Mr. OSBOB ...

... LORD RIPON AND CfERCiON. Lrd Ripon and Mr. us~tin 3irhv, Mp were present on Satari.-_ at an anei-cercio- ! me-etinz at the Castle Hal, Tauntnram There w3as a & large number of person5s Trea-nt. Lo:d Rri-oN proposed the :cliv ig i Th at in the opinion of thi, ILoeeting the pollt-- at 'cqercion, which has teerln ?? ::ai anainL tried Ir Irel. nd, bas unifornlv laiied alid t; toe tl' * hs ...

... CORPORTION LEASEHOLDS. _ ?? TO THU gDTORS OP THE LrvIMpOOL S4xTE RY. &entlemlnl-If you are not wearied I will be glad to remark upon your reply to my letter ia so-day's Memrurv. Paragraph 3. If you, being a reversion owner, #528 to ask me, as leaseholder, wbat I would give to turn my leasebold into freshold, I would give etch sum as capitaliaed would be an eqnivalent to the rent or ioterest I ...

... T'I The nomination of candidates for the vacancy in the City Council, caised by the retirement of Mr. William Madden, who was elected a repre. sentative of Scotland Ward in 1885. took vlaac at tbe Municipal-offices yesterday. Patrick Edmund O'B~are, solcitor, 19, Mason- street, Edgehill, was nominatew in the first instance by David Joseph Horrigan and seconded by Edward Horrigan. Asaenting ...