... ITHE QUEEN AT OSBORNE-CONFERRING OF. HNOHORS.I (FROM TAE COrnT CIRoULAL) I Osborne, Wednesday. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by their Royal Highinesses the' Duchess of York and Princess Margaret of Con- naught. Rear-Admiral the Hon. Victor and Lady, Agneta Montague and Major-General Sir Henry Ewart had the honour of dining with Her Majesty and the Royal Family last ...

... jpERIAL PARLIJAMENT. l. HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY, July 18. The I,ord-Cancellor took his seat on the Wool-. at a quarter-past four o'clock. Eills Advanced. The report was received of amendments to the peer Law Acts Amendment Bill, and the measure ;as read a third time. he Se3a Fisheries Bill usa read a third time. The Gordon Mlemorial College at Khartoum B:i1 passed tehnuzh Committee without ...

... Westminster, Wednesday. The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the cause of accidents to railway servants and the best means to be adopted for lessening the number resumed their inquiry at the Surveyors' Institute, Great George Street, when Lord James of Hereford presided. MVr Thomas Weir, assistant works manager at the Stratford Works of the Great Eastern Rail- way Company, gave ...

... I EDIBUfA TROW COUiOIWL I At the iortightly meeting of Edinburgh Town Council yesterday Lord Provost Mitchell Thom- son referred to the deaths of the members of Parliament for the ?? B. Cox and Mr R F Wallace. It was agreed to record in the mcinutes thE Council's sense of the loss to the city, and tha&t lettr of condolence be sent to MIrs Cox and to the relativee of Mtr WVallace. A leater was ...

... / E' OREIGN MA1LT. Drte of Depatcb ?? T i of Bo Cle0inz NText at Cbief Ol1te. George Sneare. 1Mw. Aw nsion ?? S eu t. B 6.15P.M. Aug.24 i . wtralia.viz., *vieztori n,. 2 Quneencland. viaataly . ?? 11.30 P.M. Aug.21 S San W.Aite- traliaandTas. manin ?? - vi:NewYork Alig. 19 1.15 r.o. - J , ecrmuds {via Suthanilreon Atigl7 6.15P.M. Atlr' 26 Britiab ~ ~ t antio ?? v izeil ?? ...

... M I I Qvwsalv ?? I IVEDNJESDAY, AuGUST 16. Mr Gerald Balfour, 3tr., opened the! Co-operative Exhibition at the Crystal Palace yesterday. He spoke of the great progressj mado by co-operation, expressing sympathy aith the movemuent and also with the principle Mf profit-sharing. He believed that successful' ao-operative production would largely obviate strikes. In Ireland co-operation was largely ...

... THE PILuhIPPINES. fhe pope and the Occupation of the Country. (Tg.VSG~,g Cyno A SfI C`0arrW T0'5DMVT.) ?? York, August 28. SCt is t50trmocnt to an official declaration tD , the tica On the relations of the Cathoioc p'j the T'aited States Government in ?t- Phiiia~il0 appears to to-day's New York t' Tle Pope galv iormnal audience to the i ; p~lzl T>7~ capisin; tlyord h~evv'g i;n-- Fir;-~ ~ -ir ' ...

... COT AftREN FAll CASTS.I ket'eclological Oice. Sunday, 6 p.m. j ,e psiure to-day was highest (301 inches . are) over the Bay of Biscay, and exceeding ,; ,rhes over the English Channel and France; - (0?6 inches and less) in a depression over l ad ?? and 297 inches and less in another over ! ,i :i east of Scotland. The gradients were o'er onr islands and the North Sea, H ^?l~tover Ftranc,. The ...

... SHIPBUILDING ON THE ISOLWAY. New Yard at Annan. 'Ihe revival of shipbuilding on the Soling i, a sign of the times which should not be red,5. estimated, for it represents one way of ?? the problem of expansion with which every: dastris establisbment is at the moment face to fae in almost every direction businsses har been extendedmand c-stly instllations of Moide= plant have been rendered ...

... . ?? COLONEL PLU3ME R'S COLUMN. Raiding in the Transvaal. (Press Association War Special.) frc Lorenzo M1arquez, December 16- se! The folloln. despatches have been received esr lic-tre from :he Press Association special corre- kil r.1ldon, vwith Colonel Plumer's flying column. The first despatch syas forvarded by runner to Tuli, and is dated Cream Tartarfontein, .Trans- vaal. December 4. It ...

... | 0LBort * AFFAIRS. :STRIKE OF GLASGOW GASWORKERS. ?? The gas workers employed at Dalmarnook.and ' Tradestun ,GOsworks struck work yesterday, and fron two o'clock in the morning at the former place and ten at the latter no gas was made until4 ten o'clock in the evening. The dispute arose at Dalmarnock some time ago, when the Gas Comnj mittee of the Corporation made certain concessions in ...

... 'GLASGOW HERALD SHILLING WAR FUND. RlELIEF FOR FANM'ILIES OF SOLDIERS; fotal up to date, 82,607 Shillings. TLis Fumd, started bvy tie proprixetors of the 'Glasgow 11erald for the Relief of the Farmilics of our Soldiers who are fighting their countrr o battles in South Africa, has met with a prompt and generous response ,rom the rcpublic. Thie tos1l amount received now nmnounts to F?.6s7 ...