... DAMAGE, £15,000. About hal -past one o'clock on Saturday morning a destructive fire-perhaps the most alarming which has occurred in Glasgow during the past eighteen months--broke out in the extensive bread and biscuits faatory in College' Street tenanted by Messrs Reid & Co., and owned by Mr Neil. The premises are in the imme- diate vicinity of the Fire Brigade Central Station, but ...

... Z% ! -I' AlI'!RDEEN, AN '.AY, A-C: U::T 31, 181. A docisice leo 'S hils bell. ioiht in Chilii, and Pr' bs i'nt ilw ac.I a has si:asilined ar using d Q!t t. The (6,ivenerllllet tVc,o ii ere twice re- puls- d y)v tne ine-a. twho showed vely h su rr ecne hi ol th riat les. The two 1, ( iiun.;;iit'i'ael>.ilh lilvir livex a.lnd soie t 5'?1 Ilm'l w elv kffilecl ani owlitiled. X pallraiso t ande ...

... H tRVEST PROSPECTS IN THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. rSECOND NOTICE.] STRATHISLA. IF S not a long cry down the valley of the Isla il licih to the Deveron and to the coast, but l,, re is a considerable variety of soil, from the le1vier, peaty land at Knock to the sandy land onesr tie c-vest. In the neighbourhood of Grange tile ot copIll is yet rank aand green, and it will he eto tur weeks before it ...

... - HOUSE FURNISHING DEPARTMENT. PRATT & KEITH DESIRE TO DIRECT ATTENTION TO THEIR LARGE AND VARIED STOCK OF HO1USE FURNISHINGS, WHICH HAS JUST BEEN REPLETED WITH THE NEWEST DESIGNS FOR THE SEASON. DINING-R00M, DRAWVING-ROOM, AND BEDROOM SUITES, IN A GFE;AT VARIETY OF \VOODS AND STYLES. HALL AND LIBRARY FURNITURE, OCCASIONAL TABLES, CHAIRS, &a BRUSSELS CARPETS. The Stock of },EST BRUSSELS ...

... IMI'ERIAL P?AI?UA?ENT. HIOUSE OF LORDS--Trnirs~sn. Sjr Willaiun Whitoway, one of the Newfound- land delegat~ionS was heard at the ,bar of the House.on t~he subject of .the Newfoundland Fisheries BiLlh He read a tatalement against the m~eanure, which, he arguled, wrould 'deprive, the' people of the colonty of constitutional rights At the' conclusion of 'Sir William's speech the delegatea ...

... LONDON CORRESPONDEC J LolNDoT, Wednesday night. Sir William lRarcourt -was dragged to-day from the pleasures of his own fireside in the secluded glades of the New Forest to come up and defend his beloved Ground Game Act from what he conceived to be the attack made upon: it by Colonel Dawnay's measure for enacting a close-time for hares from April to August. There was a good deal of life in the ...

... LONDON MORAYSW1E CLUB. j The nineteenth annual festival of the landon Manaythire Club took place last week in the Holborn Restaurant, London, under the clairmsan- ship of Lord Walter Gordon Lennox, LP. His Grace the Duke of 1Fi spported the noble chair- man on the right, and Sir Ger Ifapher Grant, Bart.,presidint of the club, on the left The ChAiUrnan, in giving the tout of the eveniag ;- The ...

... -- - - .NE W SPRING GOODS. M PRATT & KEITH TI G ANNOUNCE THE RETURN OF THEIR BUYER FROM LONDON WITH A CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF SEASON'S NOVELTIES. unc on MILLINERY. rEW EATS, BONNETS, LACES, RIBBONS, AND MILLINERY MATERIALS. 3/IANTLES_ THE NEWEST SHAPES IN MANTLES, JACKETS, AND CAPES. MANTLE CLOTHS. MANTLEMAKING. LADIES' OUTFITTING. NEW UNDERCLOTHING AND BABY LI N EN. AI NEW SKIRTS. BOYS' SUITS. ...

... ABERDEEN ND FRENDLY I 80 1 The 26th annual general tseeting of the members of the Aberdeen and Northern Friendly Society was held on Monday in the Society's Hall-Mr James Maitland, president, in the chair. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the annual report and balance-sheet, said they. could conratulate themselves upon the continued pros- perity of the society. During the year 1890 ...

... WEATRER REPORT. MEOROLOGC1&L Omcz, LONDON, Thursday, 8 30 p.m. Early this morning a shallow but complex low pressure system appeared over France, causin* mild southerly to south-westerly winds and rain over the greater part of that country, while cold north-easterly breezes and rain were felt over England. She rainfall was heaviest in the north- west and north of France and the south-east of ...

... LETTER TO HIS MOTHER. A long letter from AMajor Grant, V.C., to his mother, dated from Camp Palel, Manipur, April 16, is published. The account which he gives ot the fighting prior to the orders from Burmah to retire has been already given from various reports. Here, however, are an interesting extract or two ii. the lieutenant's own words - They opened a wild fire and bolted as we attacked ...

... ABERDEEN SCHOOL BOARD AND SECONDARY EDE0.4TION. A deputation from Aberdeen School Board waited yesterday upon Lord Lothian, Seoretary for Scotland, at Dover House, Whitehall, London, in reference to secondary schools., The members of the deputation were Professor Salmond an4 Mr Knight Forbes, and they were accompanied by Mr Bryce, M.P., Mr Hunter, MA'P., and Mr Esslemont, M.P. Mr Henry Craik, ...