... -- of IThe Treasury return of the revenue to December Ba 81st, 18S7, gives the total receipts for the quarter di ju.t ended Z21,376,331, being a vest decrease of wi on the corresponding quarter of 1886. ga The items are - Customs, £5,452,000 ; Exciso, no £7,850,000; Htamp;, £3,180,000 lend tax, oS000;t no house duty, £30,000 ; property and income tax, uo £X1,130,000 Post Off0ice, £2, 170,000 ...

... |IGENERAL FOREIGN NEWs EXPLOSION OF POWDER MAGA- ZINE IN CHINA. SEVERAL HUNDRED LIVES LOST. (R(CITER's TELEGRAM.) Paris. Saturday.-According to intelligence received here by mail from China, a magazine. containing 40,000 kilogrs. of gunpowder, ex- ploded at Amoy on November 21st. Sever'al hundreds of persons and fifty soldiers were killed, and one quarter of the town was totally destroyed. THE ...

... THE NEW YEAR;Al -- wit Tire radvenlt of thle !New Year was ce',ebrated in inn Air crieen with all the customary rejoicings anid con- H4e rvalirty. The str-eota, particularly those in the an6 it tntre of the town, were crowided from dusk till far bus oin the mnorning, and the number of people who P -a 'scerod round the Tiowvnhouse between eleven anid boa 'wrvitvS was ellccntionirlly large. The ...

... i MR AMOS CRUIONKSHANK ON SHORTHORN i I BREEDING. I Replying to a letter addressed to, him by the Ror, editor of the 'Breeders' Gazette, Chicago, Mr Pubil Arnos Cruickeniank, Sittyton, the veteran sho~rthiorn M breeder, says :- ttel In reply to year fir et inquiry, I will say short- ge horns have been preferred ait Sittyton becaiuse thie given breed poessesses the power of improving all other ...

... ' I HOSPITAL SUNDAY IN ABERDEEli Yesterday being the first Sabbath of the year, th, annual collection in aid of the funds of the Rotal Infirmary was, in accordance with established usa t, made in most of the churches in Aberdeen. In a 1End of the chnrchem the collection has yet to be nial1 but, so far as intimated, the total collection amonuns to £705 4s O0d, compared with £717 9s 21d litii,. ...

... BRITISE VOTERS IN THE IUNITED STATES. --- it The American census of 1880 showed that there -were in the United States 1,043,755 persons of Bfritish birth, excluding the Irish, and that more tbha 't 400,000 of these were of voting age. Of these .. Britons, 46,000 were in New York city, 55,000 in e Philadelphia, and 45,000 in Chicago (inclading a 20,000 Canadians). Since 1880 the stream of ...

... AbERDEEN TIAxhOlrR BOARD. Thb statutory annual) general meeting o atheiss ter) sour i7,oesissionfe is, seas held in the Town Hall 10 Cnoun i sAtirdS3% Prior to the coinmenicernerflt of the tb 1 -se- te moii'nibers met in the Council Chamber wj I ss, e enterttisied to Cake and wine, over which at I i Provost Henderson propoSed, in afew words, or is' -ritay to, the, mnembers individuially and ...

... TO-DAY'S WAVkTHER FORECOSTS. tssued from the Meteorologic2l (lfiCe Yesteidiey rAt S p.n. 0. Scotland, N. - Westerly and south - westerly breezes; becoming colder fftir a a whlole. 1. Scotland, E.-Do. 2. England, N.E. - Do. 3. EOgland, E.-North-westerly to southwesterly breeze3; much colder at first, possibly miluer again later. 4. Midland Counties.-Do. 5. England, S. (London and Channel). ...

... GENERAL Fo|REiG NEWs I THE OUTLOOK IN EUROPE. Pas oth THE PUBLICATION OF THE FORGED DOCUMENiTS. .~(REI TSr' S TELEOGtAMS.) St Petersburg, Mlonday.-The Russian press to since Lord Randolph Churchill's visit have bai warmly advocated an understanding between Iqi Englandl and Russia as advantageous to both otl countries. The Novoe Vrenya declares that Eng]Land has lost more by hostility to ...

... . hu Although the New Year was ushered in on Sun- at day morning amid a strange medley of religious bi services, and mild Bacchanalian orgies only partially in restrained by the sacred character of the day, the aI official celebration of the advent of 1888 took placet in Aberdeen yesterday, when all the pent-up vi feelings of tbe younger citizens in particular -t found vent in unrestrained ...

... I I MR SEXTON AND THE FfLREEDOM OF I DUBLIN. P i At a meeting of the Dublin Corporation yesterday,. it was agreed to postpone the inaugutation of Ai Sexton, M.P., as Lord Mayor until he bas sufficiently d recovered to sign the declaration required by the statutes. MR WIL FRED BLUNT. i k A telegram from Birr announces the arrival there yesterday by the mid-day train of Mr Wilfred Blunt, Lady ...

... TheGoodTemplarBazaarwas reopened yesterday by Mr J. Murray Garden, advocate, in the Lecture Room, Cafe, Aberdeen. There was a large gathesirig rof ladies and gentlemen. Among the gentlemen on the platform were Lord Provost Henderson, Baslije i Kingborn, Dr Garden, Messrs Archibald MIcenzie, Jas. Crombie, Johbn Seivwright, Geo. Kemp, Craig, commission merchant, &o. After a few remarks by Mr J. ...