... MR. GOSCIEN I DD TIM CONSERVATIvyE UNIONS. WI hi! SPECIAL TELEGRAM. LONDON, WEDNEsDAY.-The Chancellor of the ho Exchequer was to-night the guest of the National hn Unionof Conservative and Constitutional Associa- hi: tions. Sir Albert Rollit, M.P, presided, and ?? among those present were-Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, of M.P;; Mr. X. B. Stuart Wortley, ,MAP.; Mr.,Henni- ' ker Heaton, M.PA, Sir Go W. ...

... BlpAfast 4lfb's -$tt ] (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737) _ _ = = by = = e = = = = = = = = = = _ ?? In the Hotso of Lords yesterday the Scotch Local Government Bill was read a first time, and the MIterebant Shipping (Tonnage) Bill was read a second time. Several measures were ad- | vanced a stage. The Duke of Ar-yll asked it the Government could produce a letter found in the house of Rev. J. 11l'Fadden, ...

... 'TiHE ROYAL GCrIATS. t. LoNmos;, WEDNESDAY. - A conference took t place in the lobby this afternoon between Mr. a Akers-Douglas, chief Ministerial whip. and Messrs. hi Storey and Phillip Stanhope with reference to the a debate and division on DMr. Henry Labouchere's o amendinent. Mr. Storey, who seconds the amend- d ment, agreed that the division shall be taken on Friday night, hut he added ...

... BY OUR SPECIAL WIRE. FROM OUvR MILITARY CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, TuESDAY.--Lieut. - Colonel Murray, R.A., has become commandant at Limerick, vi-ne Lieutenant-Colonel Studdey, recently placed on the Indian supernumerary list. Lientenant-Coloncl Murray was previously in command of a field artillery division at Aldershot, and has been thirty- one years in the army, seeing active service during the ...

... iOUR LONDON LETTERI.| BY OUR SPECIAL WIRE. BELFAST NEWS-LETTER OFFICE, 169, FLEFT STREET, E.C., TUESDAY NIGHT. THE withdrawal of the counsel who represented air. Parnell and his associates before the Special Commission is not regarded as a very vise step in political circles. Mr. Gladstone's advice has not been accepted. If Sir Charles Russell, Mr. Lock- wood, Mr. Reid, and Mr. Asquith had ...

... [ OUR PRIZE COAMPETITIONS. ?? in theie whit leisure hours deinand Amusement and true knowledge hand in haud.- CoWDPER FOn almostthree yearspast Prize Competitionshave 2 beenappearing weeklyin the Belfast Weekty'ewa, so, in order to let the readers of the Belfast esesf- Letter see what sort of competitions these are, we propose reproducing each week's competition, but without the Coupon, which ...

... LJox/ox. SATUTMtAY.-Early this mnorning a shncking, tragedy, ?? in the death of a man ulnlkno. and serious injurv to a young woman natmel Margaret Webb, living with her sister ['lorm, at31. Gabriel Street, SE., Was enactedon rho street near St. Thomas's Hospital, London. The pair were walking togetber outside the mnortutary. when thev were attacked bya man, who tresC ,esabed the w.oman's ...

... THlE A R MY. BY OUl PRORAL WIRE. FROM OUR MILITA.RY CORIESPONDENT. LONDON, WED3ESDAY;.- Brevet-MIajor Adye, .late North Irish Division R.A., has become staff captain, R.A., at Sheerness. The Earl of Huntington, who has for the last four years been a subaltern in the Queen's County Militia, and who was the senior lieatenant in the corps, has left the battalion; Captain and 1Ionorary Major ...

... FROM OUR LADY COaRRSPONnENsT. TloLNno, SATURDAY. TE Nactional Society for XWomen's Suffirze, under the management of the central committee, held its annual meeting last week in the Westminster TownHall. Readersofmagazine literatare cannot have overlooked a controversy on this subject, begun first in the pages of the _Xatiencl Reriew and carried on afterwards in the Nineteenth &entvry. In the ...

... RAMBL3BR AT WVARRENPOINT. WHAT could art and nature do for this beautiful watering-place that they have left undone ? The comparatively small number of visitors at this genial. season of the year must strike a stranger vith surprise. Some say the late unfortunate rail- way disaster at Armagh may have a deterrent effect; others that they do not expect the usual in. flux till after the historic ...

... BELFAST HARBOUR COMMISSIONERS, ! TFic bi-monthly meeting of this Trust was held yesterday-the chairman (Mr. James btusgrave. 1.P.)presiding. The other Commissioners present ?? Mayor, Samuel Lawther, J.P.; G. W. Wolff,J.P.; W. C. Mitchell, J.P. * R.W.MurrayJ.P.; Richard Patterson, J.P.; John Ward. J.P.; John Davidson, J5P.; John Greenhill, James MI'Connell, W. Hi. Dixon. The SECafrrAseY (Mr. ...

... Tlli] NA ERY D1PROVEK[EN'T BILT. I BY OUR SPECIAL NVIRE, HOuSE OF COymMONS, MONDAY.-This bil canee before 'Mr. Robinson this afternoon, on proof of standing orders. The bill has been consideraubly altered by the suggested additions and del1tious made when the measure came before Earl Meoriev in the House of Lords. The preamble is cenesi't:r- ably modified and extended, the powers of troe ...