... | PMPORTAN IDEVELGPMENT CONCESSION BY MAJORITY. An important development- in connection with- Nairn miunicipal dispute has writes our'corres- pondent)j taken place. : The' majority of the council, in order to meet the views of the minority, and also to seoure their return to the council, considered certain proposals at a private meeting held last week. These proposals were drawn up by the ...

... I ABERDEEN UNITERS.ITY UNION. I The annual business meeting of the union was hold an Saturday-Mr Maurice Robertson, one of the vice-presidents, presidisig. Mr Leopold Profelt submitted the scorotiary's report, which detailed the trials and troubles incidentel to the operations of the first year, and expressed a fecliog of thankfulness that what the union has come throu4gh so successfully it ...

... IOLDM1LL 1IFFMIMiA'XoRly. TJ{ i'iPOAl, TUO WIND) UP. TIFit itlo' Sull Cinominitt ee, of Afberdoee [~'i lii't otity IOtttilt i tit yestcrdlav in I tliit It i,'a 0' II0i auidtiiiuiettii tint di iii 4. I 0 -l' ll 'ti Ni ll''ti'lu to r ild IlNolu (ii' 12 :itiig. tl h hr '1' t ltiiii'aht N vit an ~'idtoitate o * . ci if ii '11 Cb' ill.t il oiQ~titC' tin.iria ti tio 'kaI. rIsI ILI ~~~ ii I~1 ( I .' ...

... TOO MUCHU SALT. In the western part of Oenrtral North America-well over towards the Pacific Coast, yet anot within some 500 miles of it-is tihe great SsltI Lake, one of the moost re- markable bodies of water on the globe. Comparing equili volires of water, it contains about twice as inuch salt as the owcnr. 01 course, it Is not availab:e for drinking. You can bathe In it if you wisi, first ...

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... THEXt DUK AND DUCHESS OF YORIK IN 'THE HIGHIiLANDS. ...

... - C MRMEETING OF NANFFSHIRE BRANCH h M>INNES, FORDYCE, ON HIS DEFE;NCE . A general meeting of the Baniffhire Branch of ai the Educational Institute of Scotland took place 0. iin the Academy, Banif, on S~aturday. There was a large attendance, and Mr Stewart, Aberchirder, 0 presided. Mr George lanes, ?,I.A., Fordyce Pub- ii lie Sohool, who entered a little late, was greeted i! with vigorous ...

... I -- -~~~ THE POPE'S MEDIATION. AN A1:MISTIC1P AGREED UPON. MADRID, Monday, 2 A.M. Ministers hastily assembled in Council at the Royal Palace have decided to accept the mediation of the Pope. The offer to mediate was contained in a telegram to the Papal Nuncio, who immediately upon its receipt hurried off to the Palace and urgently demanded an audience with the Queen Regent, Uler Majesty ...

... I I | REIE0TO RGLN RAILWAY | - Mr John Brown Barblay, who has been for many years sin charge' of the running department of the loomotive works of the.Highland Railway Company at Inverness,- has now retired from that position.'. A native of '1lnttrose, where he first saw the light in the 'year 1835, he served his ap- prenticeship in Dindee, and in September, 1855, came to Inverness, just as ...

... I ~~~RAMfli6. - NEWMARKET MEETING. Rtn-x- S~bA~--lestor beat Rossean. qPa' M~i'z-Eidgr 1, Cobblr 2,.Tudoz. 'Xet'ran. ' '' ' ' . b4TMWodgO U .1,. Ledi ny 2, Golden Ariowt . if-Ab | X~wJ¢B~r E~co n 1,j High HaV9D St Kilda 3. Seven raq. rr7if -Y.rd Arm beat.Queen t the V'airies .6q~v;6Sz2T,69,epth3l S~Jack w2,~~~~A ic~. tgb.w Byi. Pt r5.-Biouthillior 1, Rondo :, Queen ~tbiide~fill~y . P>ve rap. ...

... DISTRICT . NEWS, A- AttbulaSce Clss: 0 A Home, - The nmbulance class, whioj; A taught xby Sur- geor Lieutemnnt Nicol, F during the pas, few montlhs under the i sit;. of D Compaiiy ,f tlie volunteers, was bro,% very plesant and happy termlnation by ais ntAtjinme in th yaubli, Hall the other eva;9s. ,fter tea, a piano duet, given by Masses Staili9s, s Sherriffs, opened the programme. The Fehf ...