... it The following is extracted from the report by the i committee on railway rates of the Kincardineshire I -. Farmers' Club by the sub commnittee:- I e The classification of railway rates has been z-altered largely and in almost every case to the detri- y ment of the public, while station terminals and ir service terminals; not allowed under their existing 1. bills, are demanded by both the ...

... mUSIc AND THE DRAiA. In consequence of the applications for seats for the last nights of Mr Wilsou Barrett's favewell perfor. asances, his engagement at the Princess's Theatre, ,Tonden, has been extended for another week. Mr Wilson Barrett on Monday night revived the Silver King for five nights onlyand on Saturday next he will play The Colour Sergeanb, 'A Clerical Error, and Chatterton ...

... ABERD ;TkeURSDA MAY 1, 6g. ABERDEEN, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1889. The Marquis of Hartiiigton addressed a Unionist demonstration which was held at Bury ri- 7Et 1__r___ -- -ev - - .. . Is -A&AV1-uD %D^VAu-1s&ut1m wmiI wSut nuiu au Dury ai last night. He referred, at the outset, to the r( services of Sir Henry James to the constituency ti and to the Liberal Unionist party, and pro- B ceeded to enlarge ...

... THE' PAULNELL COMMISSION. a There witas a holiday aspeet iobout the Purnell .)Court yesterda, onn hrl inciontrast to recent ~.briak-ness and, overcrowding. There were actuallI h t, empty beaches, and not a few of them. But whoever; ,,0 happens, to be in the withess-box, whatever claims the a, attention ofl Sir James Hannea, Mrs Gladstone's iplace is never empty. Not far from Mrs Gladstone h ...

... LETTERS TPO TH EDITOR. 0 __- DRESSMAKERS AND THEIR HQU'RS, Sxi,-Through tbe medium of aur paper I desire to make public the following. 1ar week six hands were discharged in a very peremptory manner from the dressmaking department of one of the city drapers without receiving any notice fromn the Ja4dy in charge. The reason given to the worlere for theiv sudden dis-. missal was that they had ...

... .:. ! . . . ' ' 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . The onarterlv meeting of the r rd Board was beld on bMonday in the Town Hall l Fas --Rev. George Macdonald, chairman, preaiding, The school rate was raised from 9d to lOd in the £1X )ut The accounts for the past quarter were passed and rut ordered to be paid, and all the teachers' salaries COn- he firmed. An application for pension by one of the C .t teachers was considered, and after ...

... NEV, 13,TJ tiL$ING8~ ABERDEEN. ~~cg'fbc. p han. Plops'he au C oitle the ,'~uWrl, tbei.'i ihv sae tioed.ns;iiepBis'ne'g , te, i~ng bunD, Ah'pprve. X ti ofaedtla iw a feS6 ¢ .de~hig-aug&;lndigrs~ed f alare;nublijer sof I 1 ,a$1dit~ious ( all^teations- Tldhe 'foilcowing as .-the c e Hall inD crtrlcin Wvit :re A.Thbu knox's Ghuvch, c (Gerrard ,-reeotilper Meesrt Ellis.& WWlsou;4.!archc- I tects. ...

... The latest nine drys' wonder in Rome is the, dih- covery made in tbe apartments of the late Signora Santa Cadet, whose death took place a few days ago, and at whose funeral there was such an impostiig Radical demonstratiton. The Signora, who was an Italian heroine, and fought by her husband's aide in the struggles of '48, has for years past lived in a miserable apartment in Via della Vita, ...

... A KIRK-SESSION REFUSES A CERTIFICATE. A special meeting of the Presbytery of Aberdeen was hold yesterday within St Mary's Chapel, for the purpose of hearing a petition at the instance of Mr T. A. W. A, Youngson against the refusal of tbe kirk - session of Banobory - Devenick to certify him as a ruling elder of their congregation. The subject was discussed at last meeting e of Preabytery, and ...