... MEL4TEOROLOGIOAL NOT.S. (13 Orlando 'hinRtwecraft.J Report for the week ending December 12th, 1888. Dec. Wind Wain. Character. Deg Dee Th 6 4 55 S. - Very close and mild. Fri 7 41 50 S.E. ?? bright all day. Sat 8 35 40 S.W 12 W8.egy cnd thick. Rain night. Sun 9 .3 42 N.W. - IBriglr and colder. Dfon 10 28 41 N.W. - Frost aem., day partly I-bright. rues 11 80 43 N.E. - Tesa.mn. Bright day. Wed. ...

... THE AFFAIRS OF COL. F. 0. SOOTT, BRAMFORD HALL. A ?? of the creditor' of Cel. F. C. Scott, of Braniford Hall, wies hold at the Gilden Lion Iotifl on Thursdiay, the Offici,,l Receiver ?? Frid. 54feisent) prerbin-.. Tho stitmen-t of affair4 a' already plb'iebehd in the Ipstcic Joturnal Qhowrd thit the unsecured liabilities amounielt to bt5,18 hut since then Mrs. Scott hoe put in a claim for £3 ...

... y -V (4 g ~b¢t ho.lrtP 'amtt AND SUFFOLK, NORFOLK, ESSEx, AND CAMBRIDGESIIRE ADVERTISER. FRBIDAY, DECEMBER 21. The local Liberal organ explains, with all air of frankness, how its friends have hap. pened to lose Colchester; and the explanation is instructive. The entire Unionist majority of 486 is accounted for exactly, to the last man. First came the personal intervention of Lady BROOKE who, ...

... I ELECThRC LIGHTING IN IPSWICH. A special meeting of the Ipswich Town Council wae held at the Town Hall on Wednesday, for the purpose of considering the report of the Paving and Lighting Committee on the subject of electric lighting in Ipswich. The Mayor (John Henry Josselyn, Esq.) presided. The Paving and Lighting Committee reported on the subject of the application of Messrs. Lawrance, Paris ...

... IPSWIO1C RAGGED SCHOOLS. To cultivate habits of thrift and cleanlinees, to awaken pure and holy thoughts, and to lead themt to Jesus, has been for many years the special work of .agged School teachers. Such is the concise state- meat in the annual report recently puplished of the objects of the educational institution known as the Ipsvich Ragged School. For 33 years the work inaugurated by ...

... On ?? sterling the survivors of the erew of the steamer Storrn Queen, belonging to Newcastle, were landed tit Dover from the Norwegian barqaue Guslare. The Storm Queen was lost in the Bay of Biscey on the 22nd iast , with tire captain and five of the ?? Tie su-vvores, Ahet rescued, were in a rtry tlxhausteai arid destitute condlition, and twice had a inarrov. escepe froin a watery grave. Tine ...

... IPSWICH .HIGE SOCHOOL DISTRIBUTION. PRIZE: Sp'cial dav with the pupils of Ipswicbh igh F School is one of the evenits of the year in Ipqwich, and e tlhn-t precodi-ig the Christms ?? wa-3to exception. b The Public H.11 was the scene of the briltiant assent-a blage. In the forefront of the platform hothouse plante e! were placed* besides these were the young ladies com- poeibg the School ...

... AWARD OF LOCAL PRIZES. In addition to the medals and prizes awarded at the national competition, South Kensington, the Committee are enabled, through the liberality of residents in Ipewich anad neighbourhood, to offer to the students substantiil local prizes in the form of money, free stadentships. and valuable books on art for works executed each year. Mr. H. B. Hagreen. art examiner, South ...

... 9ke Ystlyitle 'lurnalt AND BUFFOLK, NORFOLK, ESSEX, AND O&CBRIDGESEERE ADVERTISER. FRIDAY, DCEMBER 14. What the electors o: Colchester have above all things to remember, in connection with the contest in to which they have been thrown by the lamented death of their excellent Parlia- mentary representative, is that they are called to a public duty-a duty to their country not less than to ...

... E85Ei 'AND~ StI30ZR FOXIzOUrnai. Monday, December 2L.-A-sington Park, at 11. Friday, -December 23 -Bentley Tankard, at 11. HENOIAm HAtRRIER S. Weaedneday Deemhdr 26.-Sotterley Park, at 11. Saturday, Deembar 29. -Darsham House, at 11. TTHE SUFFOLl FOXHOUNDS. On Saturday the sietieast at Onehouse, and noteeitb- standiog the heavy weather, there Was a good field. Oin the boutids trottinc off to a ...

... DISTRICT INTELLI GEN CE. ALDEBURGII. CONCERT AT THE READING-etOOzI.-On Thursday evening a concert in aid of the funds of ?? Jubilee Band was given at the Reading-room by the band and several frionds. The Mayor (Mr. Alderman Flintham) prsilded. The ronra was well filled, and the concert was in every way successful. The band played three pieces, which wvorer most creditably rendered, andI showed ...

... I OJ C1d~iUULTURAL CORESPONDENf. I . . . The cuekoo In Norfolk in Dernbm,! ' Such Is a tbe atarthoeg announncment which twas made In the F London Times one day this weak. If it had been an r American paper we might have treated it as a ?? j joke. smiled, and thought no more about it. But when a sober, reliable paper like the Times makes thle state. mont, and that, too, on the autbority of a ...