... (JORRESPONDENCE. CLERGY SUPERANNUATION FUND. TO TIlE EDITOR OF THE HELFAST NEWS-LETTER Sip.-As one of those specially interested in the above, I ivish, with yonr kind permission, to bring it under the notice of the clergfy and laity of this united diocese. Its Dbject is to assist incumbents when disabled by sickness or old agre-(1 ), by pay- ing curates for them, or (2) giving them retiring ...

... RATEPAYERS' AND PROPERTY- OWNERS' PROTECTION ASSOCIATION. YESTEDDAY, at noon, a preliminary meeting in connection with the proposed Ratepayers' and Property-owners' Protection Association was held in the Chamber of Commerce. The circular call- ing the meeting was as follows:-';A number of owners and agents of property in this city are L desirous of forming an association for the purpose of ...

... (EsTiABLlSHED ANINO 1737.) 1BELFA4ST1: FiRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1889. Is TIhe Wing of Portugal is reported to be It By the floods in Japan it is estimated that c fif teen thousand lives have been lost. a re Smokeless powder wvas used at the uoilitary jl nanoeuvres in Westphalia yesterday. f in While on duty at a fire at Bristol, yesterday, d( afireman namned Lear was seriously injured by the ...

... ,p~f ?? AN t 1 s 37f.) (ESTABLISHED AINNOL 1737.) TThe ship Bay of Naples has beer destroyed by fire in New York Harbour. Elizabeth A'Veigh, one of the persons injured in the Armagh railway accident, died yesterday. During gunnery practice on .LM.S. Ajax a 38-ton gun burst, and one man was injured. A great fire has taken place in the town of Barker, Montana, and it is reported that nine ...

... S W A L L O W S. THE question as to whether swallows can be made to supplement the services of carrier pigeons has recently been raised in Germany, and the fact that tihe swallow is in many ways superior to the pigeon has drawn much attention to the bird, though nobody seems as yet to have remembered that the swallow is a migratory bird, and that its services would, therefore 'only be ...

... EIl E A IM I Y. POh OURt MIKLTARY COfltFPONDI:NT. 1SV OURl SPECIAL AVITR. LONDON, SUNfAY.-Lientenanlt, Warren. 1st Bat- talion lioyal Munster Fusiliers, has joined at Tralee for luty with the regimnoltal tlepit., replae- inj- Lieutenant Chadwiclk, who has joined the lst B-ttalio n, at Colclehster. Capt-unn Champion ha3s givetn up the hmost of aeing-npaymanstr of the 2nd Battailion Leinster I ...

... YESTERDAY morning, at eleven o'clock, the busi- ness of revising the voters' list for the four parlia- mentary divisions of Belfast was commenced in the Crown Court of the County Courthouse, Crumlin Road. Before entering' upon the business proper, Messrs. W. H. Falloon, QO0. (presiding), J. KI. Moore, T. D. Rearden, E. G. Swifte, and B. Barry, Barristers-at-Law, Revising Barristers, sat in the ...

... SPECIAL TELEGnAM1. QUEENSTOWN, THUBSDAY.-The White Star royal mail steamship Britannic, which sailed from New York on the 4th inst., with 89 saloon and 159 steerage passengers, also a complete cargo of . general merchandise, a great portion of which is bales of cotton, arrived off Qleenstown Harbour this afternoon, and landed quite a number of the . travellers, who stated that the day after ...

... PAETY DISTURBANCE AT COOKSTOWN. Ar thle petty sessions yesterdav at Cookstown, he- iore Colonel J. C. J. Lowry, V.L.: Colonel J. EL;. C. Lindsay. DJ.L. Messrs. J. B. G. 'Moore J. P. J. Raphael. J.P.; Joseph Falls. J.P; James Devrlin. J.P.; and John Rickard, J.P.. John Allen, Andw. Park, Thomas Ferguson. and Wznl. N.IyFddlen wvere charged by District-lnspacatr hith bavitnm. at C001kjtown, oil ...

... THE OR&NGE INSTITUTION. HOTDnAST L.O.L. No. 1620.-This lodge held its monthly meeting on Tuesday evening last in, the Orange Hall, Thomas Street, Dungannon-Br. Samuel Smith, W.M.. in the chair; and Br. James Lecky in the vice-chair. After some preliminary business had been transacted, the annual election of officers took place, resultingf as ?? Samuel Smith, W.M.; James Lecky, D.M.; Lowry ...

... ' I CROSSING THE ATLANTIC IN A COCKLE I SHELL. TERRIBLE PRIVATIONS. SPECIAL TELEGRAM. QUEENSTOWN, SUNDAY. -The Cunard liner Aurania, wahich arrived to-day from New York, brings a thrilling tale of the sea. It relates to the bold attempt of Capt. Rogers to cross the Atlantic in his wee eighteen-foot yawl-rigged boat Nickeloden, and his terrible experiences at sea for thirty-eight days. For ...

... TEn tinme of year when Spain looks its best is close at hand, and few holidays could be better spent than by taking a trip to the land of Don Quixote. In some ways no European country possesses greater attractions for the average Britisher. Its historical memories as the land of the Inquisition and the Armadea, the land that in more modern days has been watered throui~hout with Britishi blood, ...