... I | GENERAL MEETING OF THE CLUB. DZPUTATION TO WAIT ON4 COLONBL YHROUSON. A special general meeting of members of the Peterhead Golf Club was held in the small Music Hall on Saturday for the purpose of hearing a statement by the council regarding the cireum- stances that had led to the notice which appeared withdrawing leave to play on the golf course, and also for the purpose of deciding on ...

... KEMNAY. WATER SUPPLY. - Kemnay has outgrown its water supply, and a fall meeting of those concerned was held in the school on Thursday evening to hear Mr Watson's report as to procuring a further supply. Mr M'Combie took the chair, and at his invitation Mr Watson also attended the meeting and read his report to the District Committee. Mr Kendall Burnett explained, the Acts relating to water ...

... SCOTLAND . DAY BY .DAY.| _ _ . ?? COMINGS, GOINGS, DOINGS. Mr E. Robertson, M.P., Civil Lord of -'the Adniiralty, was in Dundee yesterday, and called on Lord Provost Low at the Townhouse. Sir Gordon'Cameron, late Commander of the Imperial Forces in South Africa, has left Cape Town by the Union liner Athenian for Eng- land. f Mr, Cathcart Romer Wason, second son of t Mr Wason, M.P, a -brother ...

... 1 SCOTLAND DAY BY DAI. COMINGS, GOINGS, DOINGS. Three ldies made an ascent of Ben Nevis thie other day. It is said that Miss Mary Hozier, who is to marry Lord Laminiton, will have a dowry of £C50,000. Colonel Hugh Gougi Granlt, Seaforth High- hinders, has been appointed Assistant Adjutant- General of the Punjaub Army Corps. The Macphersons intend to have an outing to Cluny Castle on the ...

... IiTHE' UNIFICATON S MUMS. , I I ?? , .. I SIR Go. TREVELYAN'S FINAL OBOER. NEW CITY PARISFI OF ABERDEEN. The following order appears in the Edinburgh Gazettol of Friday last :-Whereas it baa been represented to me by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, anid Town Council of the City and Royal Burgh of Aberdeen, and by the Parochial Board of the parish of St Nicholas in said citv that I should ...

... I ITHE ENSUING WAPINSOBAW. IMPORTANT ICASE OF PRIZES. The thirty-fourth annual general meeting of the Aberdeenshire Volunteer Artillery and Rifle Asso- aiation took place yesterday in the Advocates' Hall Buildings. Colonel Douglass Duncan, ilt V.B.G.HE., presided. The other members present ?? Anitice, let A.R. BE.- Lieutenant.Colonel Cruden, lot ?? secretary; Major Mortimer, lst ?? Major ...

... TO-MORROW'S CHURCa SERVICES. West Church-Rev. J. A. Milne, 11; Rev. Thos; * Marjoribanks, 6'30. Groyfriars Parieh Church - Rev. Gordon Jig Murray, B.D., 11; Rev. R. Robertson, B.D., Skone,. 6., St George's-in-the-West-Rev. James Smith, 6. Rosemount Parish Church-Rev. Jarres Smith, B.D., St Geor e's-in-the.West, lif Rev. Jaz. N. Cuthbertfl).D., 630. Trinity Parish-Rev. B. Slessor, 6. Ming's ...

... ; QREA~VNQRT E9F BSCO!IND R1Lf . A: : ELQIN WOWN COUNCIL:. -A meeting'i111gi Eigi ?? ?? was held on Monda'y eveniing's; at which' the chief business was. a' discossion' on the Grieat :North of Scotland'i ?? Powers BUIl, Provost Li* presided, and 'all the other members were present except one. The! council at last meeting had agreed 'o 'peU' tion in favour of the billo ou the condition tha the ...

... .tir aftde -pt1 if r7111igl. Vr CKMP OFri0,-BROAD STREET, ABERDEEN. 1ONDON OXVOE-5 NEW BRIDGX STREET, N.C. ftLsRAMS-.'ABERDEEN JOURNAL, ABERDEEN. TELEPHomE-No. 27. :K'&BERDEEN, MONDAY, DEC. 28, 186. Mr A. J. Balfour presided at a meeting at Raddington on Saturday, at which the WvIaster of Polwarth, who twice unauccess- fully contested Haddingtonshire, and now intimates withdrawal as Unionist ...

... I ' TJ5gT0PY OF THE SCoTTISH CHURca. By W. Stephen, rector of St Augustine's, Dum- ;acton. Vol. It. (Edinburgh . David Douglas, 1896.)-We give a warm, though womewhat tardy, welcome to Mr Stephen's 5econd volume of the History of the Scottish Church. Like its predecessor, it i an eminently readable book. Many of its facts are new to the English speaking world, the whole treatment is ...

... 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 ...

... IAN ABERDONIAN ON THE TOANSVAAL DIFFIOULTIES. An Aberdonian in Pretoria, South Ahrica, seude us 5the following letter regarding the reaeut troubles in Ithe Transval:- I have observed in two of your publieations just come to baud extracts from a Johannesburg letter under the heading of Notes from Johannas- hburg, and digned by R, L I should like very much to a la few words in conneotion ...