... 1 Ba I - I 4TQ. N AnanDeu, Thurliday.-Twelro trawles londo4 Mc~ good shots to-day ait the Frish Market of CAti try as 'haddoc~kv, turbot, 'lemon soles00 platce, and ocodllog& . fa bow, The small ]iceo boats discharged an averag fishing will' %lf. Prices :-Cod , 2s' to 5s seobh; large haddocks, 8. to ta ioA Vs Cd 'per b-ox , annalist, Ce to 7s per box; tubt 'Swec of a0.t li p er cwt.; lemon ...

... : EXTBERINATION OF RAT. vr An interesting paper by Mr Tom Speedie on the le etibjeot of RaA and the Balanoce of Nature was i- commnuniated the other night to a meeting of the it Edinburgh IFilId Naturalists' and Microseopioal 1- Society. At a time when the question of the ra r. plague is being diserssed in various agricultural le distiote, additional interest atthbes to a paper is On the ...

... THE FREE EDUCATION PROBLEM IN: ABERDEEN. - : In Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday-Sheriff Dove Wilson on the bench-a S9hool Board cse of some publio interest was disposed of. Alexander David- son, stonecutter, 25 Nellfield Place, wse charged with having failed to secure tbe regular attendance at a public or inspected school of his three children- James (aged 12) for six Nveekm prior to 21st ...

... I GENERAL FOREIGN NEVs| I~ ~ _ - ., IMPROVEMENT OF PORTUGAL'S DEFENSIVE FORCES. (RsiTrsi's TELERAM.) A Lisbon, Tuesday.-Bills proposing the .most iA comprehensive reforms in the army and navy b will be introduced by the Ministry at the open- ic ing of the Cortes, PRINCE BISMARCK ON STATE. , 01 AFFAIRS. rc (REUTER'S TsLEGRAMt.) Berlin, Tuesday.-A report is current in ol Parliamentary circles ...

... I LATEST LONDON NEwS. lI (FROM OURIOWN COGRRPONDUVMq ] LoxDON, Tusa ight The great military pageant which has'. tbeen the chief event in London to-day was wortiby of Itin the occasion. We must go back to the Duke rem5 of Wellington's funeral before anything t9.r approaching it in sombre splendour can be re. me called. It is true there was not a general sus- ate pension of business, but till ...

... - ~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- - J ABERDEElN, FRIDAY, JAN. 10, 1890. l mat .. - . . - . .. The British Minister at Lisbon han fnow s teceived the reply of the Portuguese Govern- c nerit to Lord Saliibsurv'X notn roardinu Main'r I- merit to Lora alislmury 's note regarding Major grjao- Sorpa Pinito's action in South Africa. A telegram hoI from Zanzibar says the British admiral ...

... THE B ATBOURNE TRAGEDY. Vol ndi The inquest was resumed at Polegtte yesterday on the twro girls named Taylor, who were murdered by fat ed tbeir mother, E~videncti ee given by several little sU ion children as to having' letched drink for prisoner on *y in. the day of thearime. It was lsso stated that al- Wl S ,ed though she had some property, she owed people th ny money. A verdict of wilful ...

... - On Saturday afternoon Lord Traynor concluded or li the hearing of a portion of the. proof in an actionl in fe ir, regard to a dispute arising out oclan agreement th to entered into in the Arctic regions in the course of a co ty whaling expedition. The action is at the instance of - the Arctic Fisberies, Limited, whose office is in at Le Zondon, and it is direoted'against James Marshall, ar ...

... D SEVE -R L .c B ' V. ERE GA ~4 I ..- - ,;. 1F o' 103LOSS OF IFE AND PROPETY. . bow~n ---- easg e r, any WINDBOUND VESSELS AT ABERDEEN, of and .ha. 000. h thi o'A g wla ofind, accompanied by heavy raint broke hich over Aberdeen and district on Satuiday night, 'and oo ,ntb. continuedtorage with reat anveriy till the errly re of hours of yesterdy morning. Aittough no catualtis a C two of any ...

... THE GIrFORD LECTURES, 'A AA.%JJJ~lJ Li LO:tkO VII>91 01 SPIUITUAL BRING8. Dr Tylor, Gifford leoturer, delivered the second tht pert of his leoture on Spiritual Beings in the BE Upiper Ilail, Mariachal College, yesterday afternoon. t ...

... THE BURNS ANNIVEPWARY., THE ABERDEnEN CLUBR ~ I whi The members of the Burns Club of Aberdeen, ' C which was instituted in 1887, held their annual gal dinner in celebration of the birthday of the poet ff~e ~33oczr within the Club Hotel, Market Street. Es.f- BAIllie Mearns, the president of thes club, occupied 'by the cbair, and the croupier was Mr James M'Intosh, 3 who filled tbat position ...

... JUVENILE SUICIDFE IN ABERDEENSEURE eOVIc1DE ?POM UNION RDtOoN, ABVDXEEN. On Monday an extraordinary case of suioide iD inany respects similar to the fatality which occurred to a lunatic patient in Aberdeen Asylum iboot throo years aRo, happened in Aberdeen. & yonth named John MlKity Bain (15), son oi 2r William Bain, sowing-machine and bicycle nierctant, Bridge Street, and residing at May ...