... WARDEENtti SAT(UR i, DEc 1,183.U ABERDEEN, SATURDAY, DECL 1, 1888. A3bhlR;1)hi, 6A't'UDKVAX, -W; 1, IZ6i. ISo~ Lord Salisbury was yesterday morning pre- A sented with between three and four hundred n -rrrco nn Beaf -Afniarninor T.ihow--l r. sriseU eu LthL netlre tuLtee UllU sour DUUnUre ll addresses on behalf of Coisservative and Liberal co Unionist orcanisations throughout Scotland. da The ...

... COLONEL FRANCIS DUNUAN, I.B., sP. iIn view of its having been the last contribution to the press written by the late Colonel Duncan, we quote his article, which appeared in the Whitehall Review, on ICHBEROS AND THE WEATHEB. It may be taken as an axiom that the presence of i icebergs in the North Atlantic, and their melting, affect the temperature. Presumably they also affect | the climate ...

... LORD HARTINGTON IN LANCASHIRE Lord Hartington, addressing a Liberal n 0 Unionist meeting at Hnslingden on Saturday j, afternoon. said the difficulty with regard to,, Ireland, which had once been pronounced to be I insoluble, was now declared to be easily solved | in no less than twenty different ways, and we i i nvow knew that in some form or another Irish members would continue to sit in the ...

... oppo iIPRESENTATION OF ADDRESSES Brtuc 15 I than ex AND LUN~CHEON. secus ttial D~ fact ~Dl 'hat (Faobi OUR SpEcIAL ConnitE5oNDEtST.) wsec teEDINBURGH, Friday night. a~lld ken Houw sis With a heavy programme before him to-daiy, niam rhe Lord Salisbury found it necessary to commence with Lout his engag-ements as early as noon. The function the in fixed for that hour was the presentation of hsl ...

... I Lord Salisbury on Thursday evening addressed ! a great meeting of Conservatives and Liberal Unionists in the Corn Exchange, Edinburgh. I He said they had all expected some statement of policy from the great meeting at Birming- l ham, but the manifesto was iianting. There were two reasons which would account for this. One was that it was danrerous to sub- mit a measure for discussion, ...

... ,I I Uu ; next. n d SALES OF LADIES' WORK IN ABERDFKN. -- - iugh OEReTHILL PARISH CHUBCH. rmno men Tbe annual Sale of work in connection with Ferry- had I anIts hill Parish Church, for the purpose of providing .0lo, had funds for charitable and religions purposes, wasinpnc isses opened in the hall of the church yesterday afternoon, T th There was a good display of work of various kinds, Tb e ...

... TEI CEILDREN'S IOUR. the Between the dark and the daylight, last, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, y to That is known as the children's hour. ler's -LOiOFELLOW med CHRISTMAS IN THlE AIR. a so There beginsjto be a very Chriotmassy sort of moe feeling in the sir. Have you found that out, my 6aW chicks ? Itbink you have, from i'the many little 0D. ...

... AN ABERDEEN STEAMER ON TTS A HE TEES. THE JAMES HALL'S MILOT SUPPGSEI' TO BE DROWNED Information was received at Aberdeen on TburEday by the owners of the steamer James Ha!l (the Aberdeen, Leith, and Moray Firth Steamship Company) of an experience which the crew of the vessel had on the Tees on Tuesday. According to the brief account of the occurrence forwarded by the captain there is every ...

... THE DEATH OF THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND. The Duchess of Sutherland died at Stafford House, nSt James's, on Monday morning, after a brief illness. 'n The duchess had been in a bad atate of health for is some months past, but the acute symptoms to which rs she finally succumbed had not been in existence 0o until ten or twelve days ago. Messages of condolence 1 were received yesterday frum the ...

... PARNELL iCOMMISSION. TUESDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. The Parnell Commission resumed its sittings to-day, when the first witness was Sergeant Gilhooly, who for some years, commencing in 1879, was stationed at Castleisland. He said there were no outrages in Castleisland before the establishment of the Land League. He admitted that a book called an Outrage Book was kept. Sir Charles Russell asked that ...

... DISTI!-tCT NEWS, -- I __Ipatil 0 was' r5.iev Iin the Aberdeeni Shetrit to £ Court j~ Mr Gego Th~omson, lien., crofter, preso ~.erh t~nmunerlad. norisli of Leoche C-ushnie, man hgsisr M Chalt~'Troup, butcher, Ab,'yne, con* act ~fud~g or 30Uat ommou law or Li156 under the Wmn ploy~5 iabiityAct, 1880, in name of damaigesi Win ~ ssatiiti~f~rthedeath of his eon, who was killed W. byth tllogofa ...

... THEZ HARDSHIPS O:E AN ABERDEEN INEWSBOY. g will LAD SENT TO INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. Lbislaw In Aberdeen Police Courtyesterday-before Baillies -Goal, Kingborn and Crombie-Willisim Davidson (12), ha fa, Jasmine Place, who, on the previous day, was charged Is, D. with fraud, but whose case was adjourned in order 'OD, 3. that inquiries might be made into the circumstances, ' was again brought up. It ...