... NEW DEER PARU)OHIAL BOARD. A meeting of the New Deer Parochial Board was held at NewI Deer on Saturday forenoon-Mr Charles A. Barclay, Aberdour 11ouse, ohairman of the Board in the chair. COLLEM1ON OF RlATER. Mr Greig, inspector, eported that the total poor rate for the year wao X468 5H 1td, and school rate £806 OR Old, and he had received £465 17a 13d of the poor rates, and £800 17e 9d of the ...

... ECCLESIASTICAL NE'WS. STIRLING FBEs PaRSiiYTERy-TaE New TzsTA. MSNT OCRAr.-A meeting of this Presbytery was held at Stirling yesterday. Rev. Andrew Shaw, Tullibody, proposed Rev. Dr Marcus Dods, Glasgow, for the vacant chair of New Testament Exegesis in the New College, Edinburgh. HIe spoke at lengthl upon Dr Dods' qualifications. It was agreed to propose to the Assembly the names of Dr Marcus ...

... AGRICULTURAL REVIB,. E d (FROM A SPECIAL CORRIESPONDENT.) Y 5 With the advent of the merry month of May we IN 13 have a promise of mach-needed im~provement in tbe- so ,t weather. The closing ditys of April and the opening£ d.of May were characterlsed by cold and excessive s a moisture, and even. yesterday snorr~inig a good deal of at Lirain fell. Ae the day advanced; however, there damne Ot Ia ...

... .:. ! . . . ' ' I '! ': . .. ',o' y 7 HOUSE OF ODS--FrIDAY, The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the wooleanlt a at a quarter past four. - a , IRST READING. 'On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, 'f A bill to amend the practice of procedure in the a Chancery Court of the County Palatine of Durham e was read a first-time. e e ' APPOINTMENT OF PUBLIC TRUSTEE, - The Earl of CARNARVON asked ...

... LECTURES, SOOIAL MEETINGS, &a. KICITH-.SoOAL MmrsGra.-The members of the local branch of the Scotch Girls' Friendly Society held a social meeting in the Longmore Hall on Saturday evening, when the Han. Mrs Ferguson of Pitfour was present and gave an address. A magio lantern exhibition followed. KEiTH-IALL--PABR15 GuILD.-Tbe members of the Parish Guild closed a very eucoesaful season's ...

... I.o% k (Ai COIN BRD. ,Oe HIE LOCAL GOERMN IL.-3 iimittee of Oldmachar- :arochial- Board was held in. the Board's office, Didamond Street, Aberdeen, on h Saturday,. to rgceiv~e a: communicastion froni the eBasronyP~ariah fof G~lasgion askinke represeintativios to be sent to e, coaferenecr oE 'the; 'Gllasgo*, Edinburgh, mee Aberdeen, and l~undpve Boards iGO he held inl' Glsiago.w . 15on ...

... THE STRANDING OF THE LADY CATHOART. SECOND MATE'S UMRTIFICATUZ5U8PgDZ Dl. In the Aberdeen Sheriff Courthouse yesterday, judg mnent was given in the Board of Trade inquiry, whiob was held on' Friday, into the stranding of the steamer Lady Cathoart, belonging to the Aberdeen Lime Company, off Johnshaven, on the 21st -April last. Sheriff Brown, who was assisted in the inquiries by Cautain John ...

... In view of the notice of motion given by Dr Moir at the Council meeting on Tuesday last, that the onter marches be ridden, it may not be inappropriate, wxrites a correspondent, to say a few words concern-i ing this old custom,and what we may expect to seeif I the motion is adopted. The duty of periodically perambulating the marches was one incumbent on all magistrates, and the Church at an ...

... LATEST LOENDON SEWS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTk1 LONDON, 31onday'niglit. a Ani authoritative paragraph appeartA to-da to the effect that Ministers are not boujnd: to askI Farliameont to read the Sugar Bounxties Bill a 66cond time this session, as the Conyention is a, good for a couple of years. Tho statement p hangs upon tho announcement wyhjac I msyself tj was able to make on Friday, and ...

... THE LADIES' COLUMNi For morning dresses the combination of grte It, black is still very popular, especially in cloth stil moire, the latter both in the piece and as ribben The purely white tablecloth is now out of lgibim Light coloured borders are added for effect, but t. questionable whether this does enhance the brilliat, of the crystal and silver on the table. The shalpes of jackets and ...

... I ____ ___- THE CROFTERS COMMISSION IN SKYEg. THE GOrLMDALR DECISIONS. h The Commissioners have now completed and for- s warded to the sheriff clerk at Portree their final s ' orders fixing fair rents and disposing of arrears in E a applications from Glendale, in the west of Skye, the a district where thecrofter agitation was said to have d had its origin, and where for some years it was most ...

... (REUuat's TELEGIRAm.) Paris, Friday.-The Dix Neuvienle $iecle to-day states that a French subject residing at Soultzmath, in Alsace, has been arrested by the German authorities on a charge of high treason, Trs2 LATE Pmornssou CaaisTixs-We understand that the funeral of the late Professor Christie will take place on Tuesday first. The obsequies will be , semi-private, the friends and ...