... i T.il BALSALL. HiEA.T LOCAL BOAED :- : AUDIT.. - hilLWEEESSCHARGES. The audit of the accounts of the Balsall Heath Local Board for 'the dosing year of its existence was resumed at the offices Lime Grove, Moseley Road yesterday, by Mr.;Rv RHarington Smith, oneof the to Govern ment Board auditors. Among those who- attended the audit were Counclor Arthur Smith, on behalf of the Investigation ...

... THE STATE OF -AFFAS: ,Ai 'I f:KHIA-RTOUM. I DISSNSIONS. AlD RIOTS. [From, a Specw aCospondsn&] Carno, December 31.-I have a.lengthsucceeded in obtning - detailed aocount of the terrible experiences ?? the perid of their captivity in .the Soudan. The story go .b.k to April, -18, when a Detrish force was sent by the Maldi to attack the Ainn miision station in odtith ]Kordfan, and reduce it. The ...

... The Paris correspondent of the Daily Tdegrko says: -Although there is no foundation for the report that the Comte do Paris bas determined on abandoning the rule of a Pretender, it seems not improbable that h may decide ere long in. norteilig the expenses to which he h:as boon pot for the furtherance of his cause. His I committees, both in Padis and te provinces, are still 1 organised, with ...

... ?? AND JOURNAL. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1892. LOCAL WEATHER FORgXorT atc@-2m;ZY tv tUetrlV y windsumedfirdrate; fair, colder. A Cabinet Council has been summoned to meet I at the Foreign Office on Friday next. The police at Slough are investigating the cir- cunsatances attending a daring robbery of jewels at Major ME1 EGs seat, Ritchings Park, Buckinghamshire. The Duke of EDLNBURGH will arrive in ...

... 1 [Retuters fe~egrm.] FUNERAL OF SIR W. WHITE. sutme, December 31.-A requiem mass for the e Sir Wmn White was celebrated in the Catholic lurch of St. Hedwig, at ten o'clock this morning. i ie service was attended, beside relatives, by the Sowing :-Major Von Huelsen, representing the *-peror. Sir E. Malet and Tewfik Pacha, witfi the ifs of the British and the Turk-ish Embassies; other members ...

... ITHE WATER SUPPLY OF BIRMGHAM1. Mr. Beriah Shepherd sends us another long letter on' the above-named subject. A considerable part of it !s occupied with criticisms on former correspondence. Th e more- interesting portion, for which alone we can maia, toc mt consists of a description of- Me': Shepher's ev.- sicbeie, or, as he describes it, temore excellent way.' of dealing wfith the water ...

... ~GtLAM -S,& Captain Andrews, gover.or of CloninglG l baa besen appointed governor of Kileininham Prioin. 1 We bear that Bath Hous, Piccadilly, has been boaght I by Baton HIrSch from the exetors of t e r V Brasev.V Mr. hann, I:P., ha presented a fin barmionium to a the Abbey Poorhouse Paisley, for thuse of the patients 5 in the hospitaL- - Madam Abel pradedaughter of h. WauendoZ - the Dutch ...

... PREPARUNG FOR SNOWSTORMS. The gigantic task of keeping clean the streets of r Birmingham-streets now having a total length of r two hundred miles-has, during the last year or a two, been carried out with increasing vigour and a efficiency. The Public Works' Committee seem to - have realised at last that the public mean to have clean streets, and are willing to pay for them. Therein the public ...

... _ ___.worehterlywinds, moderate; O. 8ootland,. _. fair but cold; sbowery in L Scotland, E places 2. England, N.E;. 3. England, E ?? A~orflesfe?&4 to toe f~ ad 4. MMin.COUNTMIE wdcrate ; feair coldr. b. England S. (Lon-J don & Channel). 6. ?? ana . W~esNorth-westerly towesteriy-winds, 8. Englaud, b.W;, fresh; fair generally; somo S. Wales showers; colder. 9. Ireland, ?? 10. ?? RE MARKS ...

... DISORDERLY PROCEEDINGS AT SNOW I HILL STATION. Snow Hill Railway Station was yesterday the scene of some most disorderly proceedingz. Owing to the fact that it was the last day of the old year a large number of soldiers who bad been out on their Cniristmae furlough were returning to Alder- shot,- and in the afternoon nearly two hundred assembled on the Snow Hill platform awaiting the arrival ...

... ITHE BImtRGEUM DISHOPRI7 -BILL. We recorded a few days since that the bill for the constitutions of the proposed Bishopric of Birming- F ham had been prinbt Inasmuch as it diffes in t souse important points from the statutory notice which was advertised in November last, it is 6 desirable that the text of the bill should be made publi. It is in the following terms:- -. A By TO PROVIDE FOR T'Er ...

... -CORURPONDE MN -Af Uee Unkfol for ol w titM P.71Jlt bctax/~pvt d the c d cA ea~ of Ac I SV ~ 50d Wh5C5IIO13 £lio i Seti~t= O X Uu d coarse of a dog or twre the qeeefiosers sot pleas to 5L4nd s'l i1 -at tse e sestc le to supply the timacdw esf fr. 1z 0O re a] W. T.t-We have mo record. Vr L Reader, -Staffordshire wills arre proved at nchfield. r A. 1L C.-We must refer you to ?? C for your ...