... Sheriff Roberteon has just issued judgment, in an action by SMr Robert Henderson, plasterer, Aber- dean, against Mr Archibald Bruce, architect, Aberdeen, for payment of £73 lOs lid, being the balance contract price for plaster work of a house in Mid Stocket Road, Aberdeen, executed by the pursuer under contract with the defender. The specifications stipulated that the work was intended to be ...

... SCICIDE OF A MILLIONAIRE'S I sVICDSOF. EXTRAORDINAtRY LTTERS. g. A. Braxton Hicks held am inquiry on Satur- Jv &-..-rnoor at the Orleans Arms Hotel, Esher, ,rrina the death of Lloyd Burdeken, aged 22 the ?? of an Australian millionaire, lately ,at Fern CottagesWestern Green, Thamres ?? suicide at that address on 7pivifrt7)3 d George. manager of the Bank of Noew W.rales, of Abbotafoid, North ...

... CO UBT OF SES2 ON. FIRST DIION. S ELmAE, ROLL roB To-DaIY (TrEsDAY) AV To-MoRaow (WrrurneoaVl. Appesl-EdftnrdLeacb andotbersv. Magistrates of Dunbar. Partly hbseLatrd. uir ?? re't Appeal-Mrs Catherine Bell A Magistrtes of Dunbar. Fetition-Johrn Watsonl, junior, arnd ?? order, to eompel arbiters to proceed wih suboisdoo. Potition-John Nelson. -For custody of children. Issue-In cause litargaret ...

... t~~~~~~~~~~~~--ft: itYSTBlRIOUS MURDER IN LONDON. A-CAFE-CA'ETAKER SHE01 IN THE HEAD. A murder was committed in the early hours of esterday morning in the well-known Cafe Royal, Regent Street, London. The aftair is at present surrounded with mystery, as it has not been settled whether it was the work of burglars or the outcome of revenge. The manager of the Cafe Royal and the police are ...

... A GLASGOW FREIGHT CASE In the Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, yesterday, an action of the Powderham Steamship Co. (Ltd.) against R. P. Houston & Co. came before Mr Justice Bruce. The plaintiffs claimed £1840 l6s 6d for balance of freight, and £08 13s 4d for additional freight, but there was a counter claim against them by the defendants for breach of agreement. Theplaintiffs' ...

... I COURJT OF SESSION. I FIRST DIVISION-WEDNECDAY, December 5. (Before the LORD - PRESIDENT, Lords ADAM, ,'LAAEN, and KINFsLia.) I PETITION-TuLLIS & CO. (LIMITED). Answers were lodged in the petition by Tullis & Co. (Limited), papermakers. 7 George Street, Edinburgh, in which petitioners asked the Court to wind-up the Scottish Poultry Journal and Fanciers' Publishing Company (Limited), 55 Bath ...

... I __ At the Glasgow Sheriff Criminal Court yester- day, Sheriff Guthrie and a jury disposed of the following cases:- ROuSEmSISAiNG-SMAXT POLICE WORK. Michael Conroy, 13 years of age, was charged with havin on the 8th ultimo broken into the house of Vi3 B. Miller, 14 Whitevale Street, and stolen therefrom a quantity of wearing apparel, a biscuit box, and a clock. He had been previously ...

... GLASGOW SHERIFF CRIMITAL COURT.I At a pleading diet of the Glasgow Sheriff : Criminal Court yesterday, Sheriff Birnie disposed i 5 of the following cases s A POST OFFICE OFFNM , John Mathieson, 32 years of age, who resided at X Oran Street, Maryhill, pleaded guilty to the charge of having, on the 3d November, in the General 0 Post Office, where he wvas employed as a stamper, s stolen, ...

... THE ARMENIAN OUTRAGES I INQUIRY. R REPRESENTATIVES OF THE POWERS; (REuTn'S TELEGRAM.) Constantinople, December 18. Great Britain, France, and Russia have in. formed the Porte that their Consuls at Erze- roum have been authorised to send delegates to the Commission charged to inquire into the alleged outrages in the Sassun district ; the sitting of the Commission will probably he held at Moosh. ...

... Charles Henry Dent, plumber, and Frank Cannockl, mechanic, the alleged senders of the Tamworth bogus bombs, were charged under the Explosives Act at Tamworth Police Court yester- day with sending, on November 29, certain per- cussion caps by the Midland and London and North-Western Railways, without giving the companies the usual notice, and with sending caps not properly packed and labelled. ...

... SECOND DIVISION - FRIDAY, December 14. z (Before the LORD JosTics-CLOris. Lords YOUNG, I RUTErBFURD-CLARK and T.AYNEms.) Pfl'lION-GLASGOW tATENTS COMPANY (rnamrTn). C The Second Division granted a petition pre-t seated by the Glasgow Patents Company (Limited), 120 Great Wellington Street, Glasgow, for an order confirming a resolution passed by the shareholders reducing the share capital of the ...

... TIRE ROMANTIC CASE OF COUNT NUGENT. A LOVERS' GIFTS IN CHANCERY. EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS. A case of some educational value to imaginative r old gentlemen and affectionate young ladies has fonud its way into the Chancery Courts. It has been previously mentioned once or twice. Count IAlbert Nugent, the plaintiff, is nearly S0 years of age. He served with distinction in the Austrian Army, ...