... WESEYAN MTTSTERIAL EN'AGAM I' FOR TfB CONFERENCE OF 18. II * THE IDILAND DImThIO Wesleyan Methodists throughout Great Britain take the deepst interest in the provisional arrangements entered into between circuits and ministers for supplying vacancies caused by the connexional system of itinerancy. For the information of some it may be of interest to state that according to the provisions of ...

... ELEPHASTHHDNTING IN CEYLON. The following letter, descriptive of an adventure in tbe Zgle ofCeylon, is from a young B- LiSham engineer, hdia responsible office under t L Inian. Government: - 'Tracormaes, LBP, Ceylon, December, 188& And now I am goin to youa yarn, which I am bound to admit ounds but which is, nevertheles, I assure you, asolstely lcorrect. Just now is my slack time, and a a ...

... SEQUEL TO THE OLPRERT EVICTIONS. Forty-two prisoners, arrested for resisting the Sheriff and emergency men at the recent evictions on the Olphert estate, wreo yesterday removed from Derry Gaol to Falcarragh for trial. Crowds of sympathisers assembled and cheered them as they were escorted to the railway station. THE CLAN-RICARDE TENANTS. Dr. 1-caly, Coadjutor Bishop of Clonfert, has pointed ...

... BISMABCKAND ENGLAND. SPEECH IN THE REICESTAG, (Renter's Tstegrapnf BERLIN, January 26-The Reichstag to-day corn- menced the debate upon the first reading of the Bill for the Protection of German Interests and the Combating of the Slave Trade in Eastern Africa, under which title the measure is officiaily known. Prior to the opening of the discussion Count Herbert Bismarek declared that the ...

... [ LoNDON, Thursday Night. Soars difference of opinion, I hear, is likely to manifest itself among Ministers when they com- mence holding the series of Cabinet Councils which will settle the business of the session, as to whether a measure for the creation of district councils shall be included in this year's programme. When the Local Government Bill was going through the Commons, and the ...

... LONDON CORRESPONDENF - Loccx, Thursday Night: LoaD SALsRn y is placed in a position of some embarrassment by the continued attacks in a portion of the German Ministerial press upon Sir Robert Morier, our Ambassador at St. Petersburg. No one here, whether inside or outside the diplo- matic circle, gives the least credence to the Cologne Gazette assertion that Sir Robert con- veyed important ...

... CONFERENCE OF BAND OF HOPE WORKEPRS. The annual conference of Band of Hope Workers was held at the Friends' Meeting-hopse, Bull Street, yester- day, under the presidency of Alderman White. There were also present the Rev. G. Bellerby6 Dr. Searson, Messors. S. Wlliker, J. Derrington, . P. Smith, J. Powell, J. W. Shorthouse, T. Hewins, G. J. Hutson | (Midland Temperance League), J. M. Goodchild ...

... The National Peristeronic Society opened their ninth show of pigeonsesterdaT, at the Crystal Palace. The entries r;unerd 5. Ti he show is the largest which the society has held since its foundation in 1868. The object of the society, being to stimulate scientific breeding and to disseminate useful infor- mation, it offers no prizes at any of its shows, the contention of the executive being ...

... VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A DISCARDED ISWEETHEAWT. Before the Potteries Stipendiary (Mr. H. C. Green- wood), at Stoke-on-T'nut, yesterday, Robert Heath, collier, Fenton, and Emma'Hand, domestic servant, Fenton, were charged with having committed an aggra- vated assault upon Mary Ross, a single woman, residing with her mother at Hanley. Mr. Snow appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Paine for the ...

... The full results of the elections of the Co0unty councils for Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and Staffordshire were made known yesterday, and show that twenty magistrates have been elected on tho WNarwviclishire Council, twenty-five on that for Worcestershire, and thirty-three on the Staffordshire Council. It will be seen that in Warvickshire and Staffordshire miners' agents succe-ded in ...

... AR'S CHARITABLE BEQUESTS AND DONATIONS, Although the endeavour to approxmate the amount received by our London charities in legacies and dona- teons during 1888 is a somewhat difficult task, it would h e not only instructive and interesting to the public, hat useful to the institutions whose incomes are so seriously affected, and the urgency of whose appeals is justified by . the fact that, ...

... A BIG FIRE IN PARIS. J ■— 61; One of the largest fires which have taken place in Paris since the destruction of the Opera. Comiqua occurred early yesterday morning,on tha tr Bouivard Richard Lenoir. It broke out in the Communal Board School, and, fanned by the. high wind, the fl.unea extended to every part of the building. The boys' school was burned down, but the firemen succeeded in savins: ...