... (FRoMl TEM EVENING EXPiEa8S.) Peterbead is growing in fame as the years rail c Its Town Council used to provide matter uf a I nature to the outer world, but now Its narne cropped up in the Court of Session, where e cases from Peterhead are at the present time pead. I and all the cases more or lees have some interst The action of Mackie versus Clark, which hcad it? commencement in the Court ...

... , 10TIOX or INSPEOTOR AND REGISTRi, .A LIVErJ MEETING. A special meeting of the Fraserburgh Parochiaj Board was held in the Board Room, Fraserburgb Tuesday-Mr Park, chairman of the Board, ing. The meeting was convened for the Purpose of electing an inspector of poor and registrar, in room of Mr Lawrence, resigned. At the outset a question was raised by Mr Tarrai Town-Clerk, as to the procedure ...

... I rFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] fat Co LONDON, Monday night. nUa A somewhat curious complication has taken tat place with repard to the contribution of a sat thousand pounds to the Parnell defence fund dr by Mr James Williamson, the member for eci Lancaster. The story got abroad that the sum pe: in question had been contributed by Mr un Stephen Williamson, the representative of the Tr ...

... I GENERA.L FOREIGN NEWS DISASTER TO A BOAT IN AMERICA. ie SIX PERSONS DROWNED. 5, (REUTERi's TNLEGRAW.) is New York, Wednesday.-Six persons were e drowned yesterday at San Francisco through tt capsizing of a boat. THE FIRE IN MASSACHUSSETS. BY RtCTRa's TELEGRAMl.) New York, Wednesday.-Tli damage by fire s at Marblohlad is now estimated at half a million D dollars. The fire raged over an extent ...

... | IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT# HOUSE OF COMMOINS-WEDNESDAY. The Speaker took the chair at a quarter past twelve o'clock. THE SCOTCH ESTIMATES. There was no preliminary business, and the House at once went into Committee of Supply on the Scotch Estimates. THE FISHERY BOARD. Mr ESSLEMONT resumed the discussion upon, the vote of £7427 for the Scotch Fisbery Board. He appealed to 'Ir Anderson to withdraw ...

... - |EN FERAL FOREiGN News I THE REPORTED CAPTURE OF STANLEY AND EMIN PASHA. O DETAILS OF THE KHALIFA'S LETTER. (RUTEaR's TELEGRAM.) a- Cairo, Sunday.-The following details have as been received of the KIhalifa's letter to Osman of Digna announcing the surrender of Emin Pasha he io and a white traveller, the contents of which we were communicated to General Grenfell. The in Rhalifa wrote to ...

... The annual ball given by the students of Aberdeen University was held last night in the Music Hall, the whole suite of rooms and the large hall being retained for the event. Every succeeding year this assembly increases in interest and refinement, and accordingly the assembly of last night was very largely attended by members of academic circles and their intimate friends, and far surpassed ...

... THE REPORTED CAPTURE OF . STANLEY. I OFFICIAL CORREiSPONDENCE. MOVEMENTS OF THE MAHDI'S EMISSARY. L-- : The Press Association states that 'Parliamentary papers were issued last night respecting the Emin Pasba relief expedition and the reported capture of U4r Stanlek Sir E. Baring telegraphed as follows to c Lord Salisbury under date Cairo, December 15 -I Following from Sirdar-Osman's letter: ...

... 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 ...

... 1, [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] ti LoNDON, Tuesday night. a Another illustration of the growing tendency s to move the adjournment of the House has been sI given to-night. Lord Randolph Churchill's t desire to call attention to the state of affairs at ] Suakim was kept a close secret aImost up to v the t4jue of his rising in his place to ask leave ti of tlfe House to nake his motion. There ...

... On succeeding to the estates of TFreefield and Colquoieb, Miss Leith, the proprietrix, was in August last presented with an address by the tenantry, which we noticed at the time. That lady returned the compliment on Monday evening by giving a tea and ball to her tenants and neighbours at the IHtome Farm, Freefield. Since taking pogses- sion of the ancestral domains, Miss Leith has carried out ...