... NORTIH NEWS. BANFF SHIERIFF COURT. NOVEL QUESTION I1: A DEBTS RECOVERY ACTION. In this case George Proctor, solicitor, Keith, sued William Watson, feuar, Tomintoul, for £20 15s 9d of an account. ThH factt of the case are these:- Defender's wife went to the pursuer and instructed him to take legal proceedings against her husband for interim ailmeut. She was admitted to the pvor's roll after the ...

... SALE DF THE GREENWOOD POLLED 1E E X D. Yesterday afternoon the entire herd of polled Aberdeen-Angus cattle belonging to Mr F. L. Farquharson of Greenwood was dispersed at Green- wyod, near lKeith, by lir Fraser, of Messrs Macdonald, Fraser, & Co., of Perth. Mr Farquharson acquired the estate of Greenwood about ten years ago, and has since then done a great deal to improve the property. There ...

... I KINCARDINESHIRE LOCAL AUTRoRitT. The annual meeting of this authority was heldj the County Buildings, Stonehaven, Yesterday-.4 J. Badenach Nicolson presiding. THE OUTBREAK OF PLEURlO AT wXVTHryTE The Chairman intimated that the animals on lie farm of Whytemyre, parish of Fordoun, where a cW had recently been found to be affected with ple,, had all been killed. There were 13 animals, ad it ...

... THE QUESTION AS TQ HYDROPHOBIA. I~~. I (FROM THE ADE:RDEEN EVENING E XPRESS.) Tan labours of M. Pasteur have attracted the attention of the whole civilised world, and the opinions formed regarding his mode of treat- ment in hydrophobic cases are of the most diverse and contradictory character. On the one hand, the famous Frenchman has been described as the most successful of scientists, and ...

... ADDRESS By MR FERG'USONr, ~y1! ya OF KINMUNDY. re Last night Mr James Ferguson, yr. of Kinmundy pi delivered an address dealing with the Nabs policy to el a meeting which was held in the Kirkton Public t. 1yaU, Shoene, under the auspices of the Skene branch a, of the West Aberdeenshire Conservative 'Associ- bi ation. The attendance was very fair considering the Si i,,oleimency of the weather. ...

... SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE AiRiVED AT AasuDZEN.-September 9th -St 2o3d Clair, Nisbet, Scalloway, goods ; Nile. Kelly, Bo'ness, Fio coalr ; St Nichols, Reid, Wick, goods: City of to Aberdeen, Cbalmmri3, Londim, goods; Arica, Wyles, per Methil, coals; Black Dwarf, Adam, Queensferry, 3d. light: Earnbolra, Black, Invernees, goods ; Matin, Lucas, SunderlFtwd, coals ; Rebicia, Bendon, Teivn- mouth, Tripe ...

... i I (FRoos A SPECIAL CORRtESPONDENT.) e or the pobt few days the weather has been of a such a character as to enable farmers to remove the L ttooks front the field to the yard. Some of the a stooks were very much soaked-not to say sodden- e by the rain, and I fear that some of the grain will suffer in colour when threshed out. In some cases, scuriously enough where heavy rains were experi- r ...

... I -_ NINE MEN KILLED. On Monday a terrible exploioon. accompa~nied pri by serious loss of life, occurred on Monday afternoon on board the Royal Mail Company's steamer Elbe, da, at Southampton. The vessel is of 3063 tons gross pe, burden, and was built by Messrs Elder & Co. at Glasgow in 1870. A few months ago she was placed, for the purpose of having her compound engines converted to the new ...

... I CROImn-AGRICULTVIAL PROSPscTS.-HarVest is now all but completed in this district. The crop has, with few exceptions, been secured in excellent condition, but on most farms the bulk is little more than half of last year's, Farmers say that there has not been such a bad crop since the memorable one of 1868. What has been threshed is not turning out well to grain; while the grain is of ...

... Tthe;kberolt N'011-1aL ABERD1RES, THURSDAY, SEP. 1, 1857. The House of Commons yesterday resumed in Committee of Supply consideration of the so vote for the office of Chief-Seeretary for Ireland, tt Mr Sexton and Mr Dillon being the principal exponents of the Nationalist views. They re- peated the charge formerly preferred against na Mr A. J. Balfour of having violated a pledge e. that the ...

... A SKETCH OF ITS' ORIGIN. A journey to one's native land, after a prosperous career in another country, hasinvariably a fascinating F charm ; the earliest and tenderest recolleotiona are revived, and the review becomes all the more delight- ful when the intervening years have been spent in honourable service. If the interval is long, the return to the old home is tinged with al ittle regret and ...

... I The painful news reached Inverness yesterday r afternoon that Lord Lovat had died suddenly while re out grouse shooting on the Moy Hall Moors. At first the intelligence was discredited, as his lordship had M been seen in the town on the previous day in his ce usual robust health, and appeared physically capable Pt of remaining the head of Clan Fraser for many a re long year tocome. The fact ...