... PETERHEAD. At ameeting of Peterhead Parish Council last night the annual budget submitted by the convener of the Finance Committee was unanimously approved of. A sum of £1550 is required by the Burgh School Board, and £700 by the Landwird School Board. This is to be. raised by an assess- ment at the same rate as that of last year-5d and 5id on owners and occupiers respectively in the former, ...

... THEI^ THE ITALIAN DISASTER IN ABYSSINIAO - DETAILS OF THE FIGHTING.. THE DESPATOH OF REINFORCE- MENTS. PROMPT PREPARATIONS. (RzTrmts TELicGRAM.) Ronx, Tuesday. An official telegram regarding the 1talian reverse in Eastern Africa, says that the fight at Amba Alagi, continued with intensity for six hours. The Italianr wings offered a desperate resistance, but beingz overwhelmed by vastly ...

... )DISPUTE AS TO RIGHT OF SHOOTING I IN THE FORESTS OF BRSE. I . MARQUIS OF KUNTLY AND OTHERS UAGAINST MR NICOL OF BALLOGIE, Au action has been raised in the Court of Session-before Lord Stormoeth Darling-in regard to the right ef'shootsng over the Forests of Birst, It is brought at the instance of the Marquis of ilsotly and others, as proprietors of the eetate of Aboyne, and is directed against ...

... THE DEER DISTRICT CHAIBMAiVSH7P. Tin Deer District Committee of the Aber- deen County Council at the meeting at ?? on Saturday had a very important and re- sponsible duty to perform in the election of a chairman in room of Mr Ferguson of Kin- mundy, who at the recent election did not -again ask the suffrages of the electorate in the division of Old Deer parish with which he and his family have ...

... A CURIOUJ' SkAhJ!2 OF EVEONTS.I A cURIOUS series of events of diverse character, but all relating to Ireland and the Irish question, is reported to-day. These are the renewed ?? riots at Sligo, with sensational developments, speeches at Cork and Limerick by Mr Red- mond and Mr John H. Parnell, MP., and the death of two foreigners who at different times were promiinently identiied with phases ...

... VIEWS ON THE WELSH DISESTAB- to tol. LISHMENT BILL. thi thi MINISTERIAL NEGLECT OF BENEFICIAL res MEASURES. - thi sat he tru IRELAND'S PULL OVER ENGLAND the AND WALES. agi the Mr Chamberlain, in the course of a letter read we at a Liberal Unionist meeting at Shrewsbury yes- die terday, wrote- The voic6 of Wales in Parlia- evi ment has overwhelmingly supported the Glad fal me stone Uovernment ...

... 4 . o . . . , I COMPENSATION I Sin,-When that good man the Bisbop of Chester came to Aberdeen to air his Ideas as to the way in which the liquor ?? was beat managed, he talked about the Gotheuburg system. Wbat that is has very well been shown in your own columns, and on separate lines, still more clearly in the T Imes, In your columns this morning some one, signing himself t X,^ says that ...

... ,igr FARM LABOURER QUESTIONI TEE BOTHY SYSTEM. THE PROVISION OF LABOURERS3 COTTAGES. II. To the county of Kincardine the system of bthies largely prevails-much more than in Albero-densllire. It may be said to be the rulle onl the larger fairms, and on a great many of tlhese bothics it is generally admitted improve- ent is desirable. Proprietors are beginning to injtrodlice such improvements, ...

... | ; FARltHING DAMAGER AWARDED. In the Queen's Bench Division, Liondop, the -Lord Chief Justice and a special' jury have he decided the case of Monson v. Mdme. '£ussaud of & Sons (Limited). This was an action brought ad by Mr A. J. Monsan to recover damages of for libel against the defendsates. The alleged libel ir. consisted in the defendants exhibiting in their wax- tee work show in the ...

... [SCOTLAD DAY BY D. iion; COMINGS, GO G . but the y on Lord and Lady .Algernon Gordon Lennox nder have arrived at Gibraltar in the Als.'. Pany - The Alloa Joulunal, a' wel-conducted lle- Unionist weekly, has .. just' , ompleted: the unds fiftieth year of its existence. Thejubilee has onily been appropriately celebrated.- t the Ip r outg ' The Rev. Arthur Gordon' St Andiew'A !If in Church, ...

... ;I PBSBYTERIAN CHURCH OF IRELAND. THEtl SCOTTISH DIELGATES: SPEECH BY DRP MITFORD MITCHELL. In the General Ascembly of the Presbyterian Churbh at Belfast on Thursday night, the first bricinesS was the receptiou of deputies from the Churob of Scotland. The depubie3 were the ReV. :Dr Donald Macleod (moderator), the Rev. Dr Iditford Mitchell, Aberdeen, and Col. Wauohope. i[he House was crowvded ...

... TISTh BAKER OF LUMSDEN. M-P GEonos 1-ILL SMIrT, the genial and able Irish Loyalist deputy who is throwing valuable light on the Home Rule question in West Aberdeenshire, caine across a typical specimen of the Scotch Gladstonian heckler and devotee in the village of Lumsclen on Friday night. The Villagre Baker undertook to chami- pion the Government policy, and contributed some liveliness to ...