... GEORGE HOOPER & CO.. LONDON, LIB TE'D. This company biis been formed with an autho- rised celpitl olf £129,000, divitdd into 15,000 51- per cent. cunmulative ir'st picicrefnce sh1ares of £5 each. 20,000 52 per cent. cumulative second pre- terent shnares Li £1 each, and 30.000 ordinary hbares of £1 eacht. The firt preterenuce shares a. Dffered at par. The ho!lders of the-se sharer ar,; pntnled ...

... 3clvwT, ?? .IGtiT. The firstizeloions under the Local Government Act took- place to-day in chilling weather. The dead level of decorum prevailed. Excitement had vanished with the late warm weather. As regards Dublin, twenty Unionists offered themselves for election, bht it is not anticipated that more than half a dozen of them will be returned. . There were eleven Unionists among the sixty ...

... FORRIGN OFFICE CLERKS. It must be obvious to anyone who considers the subject carefully that much of the work of the Foreign Office is of a very delicate nature, and fre- quently of an extremely confidential character. It could' not fail to he the case that, if one really got a good view behind the scenes, the revelations might occasionally be startling. From time to time, and indeed all the ...

... LONDON STOZE EXCHANGE. SUPPLIED BY THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. Yesterday's Stocks, Shares, &O. IClosing ~ Prices. NwConsols (Gosohens) ?? 1101 I Feb. Account ?? 110T 110 ?? Two'and-a-half per ?? l03i 1044 ?? India 3 percent. stock, 194 .. 106 ?? Do. Rupee Paper 3; per cent.. 634 634 . . Metropolitan Con. Stoc.k 3 p.o. 111 113 ad ?? Bank ?? ?? Colonial Bonds. Canada 3~ per cent ?? l0O ..T. Cape of ...

... SPEECH BY THE EARL OF ERNEi. C WORETRY OF IGNATIUS LOYOLA.' tU w At a meeting in connectionr with the Fermanzgh d Protestant Orphan Society, at Newvtowvnbuller, on B the 927th inst., after a reference to the work 4f the st society during the year, the Imperial Grand Master of the Orange Institution (the Right Honourable T the Earl of Erne, K-P.) ?? who, on am ti occasion like this, has the ...

... I] DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKE. MORE THAN A HUNDRED PEOPLE INJURED. DESPERATE FIGHTING IN ECUADOR THE AMERICAN CUP DEFENDER. BY CABLB. FMRM OUR OWN OORRNSPONDRT. NFsW YoUn, WEDNESDAY.-A despatch from Mexico states that more than a hundred persons were injured'here yesterday by an earthquake. Ten houses collapsed, and two hundred buildings were damaged. A Herald Guayaquil, -Ecudor, telegram states ...

... PV ROMS OUR MILITAY CORREPOKOENT. MY OfR PRIVATE WIRE. SiOlWON, FEauna-Lieutenant Campbel, of the Carabiniers, has been specially promoted captain in the Irish Russara. HEe was appointed second- lieutenant En the Royal Scote in 1889, was pro- moted lieutenant in that corps in 1892, and the following year was transferred to the Carabiniers. The 2nd Battalion Royal Monster Fueilierss now in ...

... NEWS FROM Si .A LEONE. ANOTHER REBEL CHIEF CAPTURED. S IMPORTANT ORDER FROM THE WAR OFFICE. Lrvaaroon, Faenxtr.-The Elder Dempeter liner PReSS ASSOCIATION FOSIiHON SPECIAL. Volta arried here to-day from West Africa. She landed Major H. C. Buck, invalided from Sierra Leone. Major Buck was commander of the First West India Regiment, and was all through the fighting during the rising in the ...

... METEOROLOGICAL REPO? Orn IcrAN, Dosece,,er 1't U CC' > jiJ 3I 35:1 V !I;9 ' Otsd lies uxhndite liigh..o± Os'rne'eiC ?? ine at msidnight. Initbial 1ettero she?: dire''lni Mercury falls for rain., with S.W., S.E., ~-tsr ;p-g rsupkily, heay stermws; t i alewly,c ofltitflte-I i'X ' r ?? -A lIgpidly, unsettled wreather if eneiui y. weathler. A r, ...

... BELFAST CITY AND DISTRICT WATER C03fLASSIONERS. The fortnightly meeting of this Board was held yesterday in their offices, Royal Avenue. The chairman (Mr. E. W. Pim, J.P.) presided, and there were also present-Messrs. W. T. Coates, J.P.; Joseph Macaulay, J.P.; W. S. Carlile, Robert Corry, William Kerr, Andrew Mitchell, A. P. Daizell, John Forsythe, C. H. Lyons, Wm. Ross, and Andrew Maguire. ...

... * .. ULST NATlONIALIST S' NOTIONS OF TOLERANCE. To T IM EDITOR OF THE BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. SmR-Ha ving seen two letters in one of you? con- temporaries relative to' the alleged Unionist in- tolerance in Cookstown as regards the election of town councillors, I think it is time something was said on, the subject. Cookstown is entirely Unionistshaving a 6njoritv of over 100, and by the good sense ...

... I POSITION AT MANILA. A MORE FAVOURABLE REPORT. C phing from Manila under the date of i Jpnry7 13Ith a Press Assooiation special corres- p'tie4'M ?? as the situation here n-t doubtedly is, General Otis has it well in hand, 'rd there is no such certainty of trouble as seems to be generally believed.' The rebels have concentrated t round the outskirts of the city, but the insurgent I leaders ...