... I MR CARNEGIE AND ABERDEEN, PUBLIC LIBRARY. In GIFT OF £1000. ; be At a meeting of the Public LibrarypNew Building ag Fund -Sub.Committee, held yesterday afternoon, the fir following letter fromA Mr Andrew Carnegie to the id Lord Provost was submitted to New York, April 12, 1889. Of To the Lord Provost of Aberdeen, ad My Dear Sir,-I have your favour of the 18th &l March, telling me about the ...

... ABERDEEN CHORAL UNION, The annual meeting of the Aberdeen Charal Union 1 was held last night in the Round Room of the Msicioi Ihil Buildinggs. There was a good attendance. Mr Pi J. Mlurray Garden, advocate, tile president, occupied Be ihe chair. b mr A. M. Byres, the secretary, having read the a Mninute3 of last meetingv, submitted the report of the hi cwnoinittee as follows:- The session ...

... DECISION OF THE GOVENIMENT. EtU li ~ ?? _ at The followie: letter has been received by Sir pIG James King, Lord Provost of Glastew:- for . My.I~ed Foreign Office, 2d May, 1889. Sal c 1 My.Y Td Provosti,- ,teMruso I am directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to inform you that Her Majesty's Government have given careful consideration Vf I to the proposal which was submitted to them Bn ,by ...

... IALEXANDRA PARK FIRST SUMMER ~ I At .__MEETING. re I'd SA.TURDAY, May 4. The PALACE PLATE of lilga.. two-year-alds 7et Sib, thee I T DAt Sib, four and uepwurde Uot 121b; iv inhere extra. FOiv pie:' FS furlongs. vie ?? *~ C. B. Ormerod's Father Ambrose, by Edward tb6 Con- Re ?? Louise, 2 yre, 7 I ?? estea1 3 ve Mr IL Mtinler's Athol Laee. I ted, 4st. ?? Neartli 21 111ay Mr W. 8ibarys Betgy, 6 ...

... HIGHLAND SOCIETY'S EXPEfIMENTS. ' I , - - - . M1mING AJN ALB'OAD. '`R. On Saturday Afternoon Dr ;Aitken', chemist of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Sc1tland, met I at Alford with a number of -the farmers in the Vale o ,of Alford, who are conducting, or are, proposing to ti conduct, experiments- under the auspices of:, the sociery. The meeting took place within -the Haugh' .d ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMEENT., Is - I 's I ~HOUSE OF LMORDS. ea MONDAY, MnAY 6. lt .i- The LoxD-CTNsCELLOa took his seat on the 0] is Wooleack at a quarter-past four o'clock. a- NEW PEER. el a- The Earl of CABLiSLE took the oath and sub- ly scribed the rall of members on his ?? to the v ly Peerage, d ) MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL. tl of This bill was read a third time and passed. t1 st AFRICAN NATIVE ...

... MR X D. PBOVAND, SUGAP BOUq A meeting of the Execut;ve Cca, al- seven Liberal Aueciatio5e -f G c i or GI~0 - ral; last night in the Trades hats fortie ed hearing an address on the S aga C 5ie. out by Mr A. D. Provend, 31 . for toe leand Hutchesontown D~i~si t- Dle ?? Di3or th e c;t- ad. j Mr JAMES FLESLNO pre ived a the proceedings, said that W.n ths Q4>tt; be I tion Bill had been COO.idsrd a. ...

... THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT - i -BILLS. ney MID-LATiARK LIBERAL ASSOCIATION ea ,vo- _ ILLS COMMI'TLEE REPORT.. eli em- ye to The Bills Committee of the Mid- Lanark Liberal co f Aisogation, consistinge of representatives from the c eight parishes. of the division, has met and issued ce ain a report oe the four bills of the Government. The to non general objections est forth in the report may be th on ...

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... LATEST LONDON NEWS6 its 'Y [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] ve e be LONDox, Thursday night. yve Mr Parnell's cross-examination is not. so he dramatic as was Major Le Caron's, but it is still ats very interesting, and, in 'theatrical parlance, easily fills the house. Very.often it becomes sea duel between witness and counsel, for each Veseems to forget that the other is.a member of ice the ...

... NOtfING LESS THAN A MIRACLE. TaE Domroes DsLUDzD, BUTS THE PATIENT'S Lia's . ,3SAVElD. (:St Helen's Chronicle, April 9tb.) The viTle compounds plated' in the market- by unsorupulous empirics have, produced an almost general tendency to poos4pooh the effcacy of all patent medicines; and so human experience all the World over serves to show that that which was ordained for the common good is ...

... Th yndof tF Uie resbyterian Church head was opened last evening in the Syned Hall, Castle bum IsTerrace, Edinburgh. The preliminary proceedings able .r were of the usual character, and were attended by the isa very~ larze number of persons-members of the Pi~g 0Synod and interested adherents of the LT.?. of aH Church filling' the bo dy and the ansisoftepb d great hail. Thereligious service was ...