... STRANGE DEATH AT ST. - HELENS. THE DOCTOR AND THE CORONER. The death of Mary Johnson, 49 years of age, wife of Robert Johnson, collier, of 96, Pan Stocks-road, Parr, St. Helen, under somewhat strange circumstances, has occasioned some ex- citement in the locality. It appears that the woman was a widow, with several children, when she married Johnson, about seven years ego, ard it is stated ...

... I The London Gazette of last night contains the following:- Line Battalions.-LYancashire Posiliers under. mentioned second lieatenants; to be lieutenants on augmentation, dated Ist uhlt-E. T. 1uam. phreys and W. J. Woodcock. Manchester Fe meat, Lieutenant Francis W. A. Anderson to captain, vice B. S. Weston, seconded, dated 18th March last. Cibesbire Regiment, Lieutenaut.Crol. John Deering, ...

... _- DEATH OF A FATHER. A DAUGHTER'S HALLUCINATIONS The Liverpool police have bad brought under their notice a most peculiar family affair, and for the present are unable to thoroughly understand the circumstances of it. The story, so far as can be gathered, is as follows :-About six o'clock last evening Police-constable 221 (Worthington) was called to the house 103, Adelaide-road, off ...

... MR. FISCHER'S CONFERENCE. THE FRANCHISE PROPOSALS. ALARTM AMONG TRADERS. Pretoria, Wednesday.-Mr. Fischer's con- ference with the Transvaal Executive con- cluded to-day. The general impression is that the mission has been successful. The result will not be announced until his pro- posals have been laid before the Volksraad on Monday next. It is understood some alterations have been made in his ...

... I MR. AUBREY H. SMITH & THE HON. ELSIE GROSVENOR. St. Andrew's Church, Wells-street, London, was the scene of a fashionable wedding yesterday (Thursday), the happy pair being Mr. AUbrey Hugh Smith (lieutenant in the Royal Navy), fourth son of Mr. Hugh Smith (Governor of the Bank of England), and the Hon. Elsie Grosvenor, eldest daughter of Lord Stalbridge (who was M.P. for County Flint from ...

... SAU POULtI LAt S --A SALUES POPtJLI LEX! SAPRtEUA. THIS MORNING'S NEWS IN BRIEF. The French Ministry were defeated in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday on resolutions arising out of the events of Sunday. Subse- quently their resignation was handed to the President and accepted. Private legislation procedure for Scotland was the subject which occupied mainly the attention of the H~ouse of ...

... (SPECIALLY CABLED.) NEW YORX, WEDNESDAY. lMr. C. H. Shirrell, a member of the joint Yale and Harvard University Athletic Com- mittee, announces that all differences of opinion between this side and the Oxford and Cambridge Committee have been ad- justed. There is now nothing to prevent I the contests being brought off without friction. A cyclone last night completely wiped out the township of ...

... The following mails are despatched fr= Liverpool to-day:- To Egypt and Srria, via Brindisi. per Aust.:san packet.-G.PXM., II. ?? a.n-; with ta. e el-, 11 40 a.m. Speciauly-addresced letters for Pra- an. :%fanaos (North Brazi! ill he dne-amrheei :rs Liverpool to-day, per stcamer Fsanner-e- ?? noon. To the Canar- Islands. vfa Srain.-G P.O.. 11 Cape mails, via Sout'ampton. per -etrZ¢ Tantalion ...

... I THE POULTRY INDUSTIRY. In Considering poultry kp.-n.^g qsvn o2.t (says a writer in the Land .Mazazi::Av''ir: essential to recognize ce-rt-i SDCial ars-a-e-s between the farmer and hisLi. 1: han :wre S 5.l;,Iost unive-sal clsatn.a for :> u'-nf r.nte o en- garded as the perqueeite ot ?? rum lb is by no means. conained Lo Brinzain. bat prcsl.V it has had here a wider reacing iflfitO2 ?? ...

... GROCERS, ASSISTANTS' UNION. , TO TEE FDITORS OP THE LIVERPOOL MERCuaR. Gentlemen,-May I be permitted to draw the attention of grocery and provision assistants to the Liverpool Branch of the National Associa- tion of Grocers' Assistants. ~any years ago the master grocers found it expedient to form their own organisations, independent of drapers, ironmongers, and other branches of the retail ...

... WAYERTREE L yGROUNDI | I~~ ?? P ?? TO THE EDITORS OP THE LIVfPOOL MERcY. Gentleinen.-Now that this fine present to our city is looking so well, it is a pity that it is not made more use of by the residents of Smithdown- road. Looking at the dozen or iD roads running on to and across Garmoyle-road, any afternoon or evening, you will see that hundreds of young children are playing about the ...

... SALUS POPLI Las m THIS MORNING'S SEWS iN BRIEF. The Archbishop Benson memorial in Canterbury Cathedral was on Saturday un- veiled by the Duchess of Albany. The 40th annual meeting of the National Mile Association opens to-day at Bisley. Tke report of the Indian Currency Com- mittee was issued last night. The majority of the members recommend that the rupee should have a fixed legal rate of Ls ...