... PATTISONS, LIMITED. The Reconstruction Scheme. Ijord Stormontb Darling, in the Court of bcs- Son, Edinburgh, to-day, heard counsel on the inswers to the petition of certain creditors of Pattisons, Limited, in favour of the reconstruc- tion scheme of the London syndicate. The liquidators say that should the reconstruction scheme be adopted the outcome to the creditors would be L377,000, subject ...

... CZAR'S THIRD DAUGHTER. A Prophecy Being Vicariously Fulfilled. St. Petersburg, Jnne 27th.—The birth of a third daughter to the Czarina has visibly damped the hopes of those about the Court though in the Imperial family and household there is much jov at the event. It is reported that as the Dowager Empress arrived at Peterhof she met the Czar with these words Six daughters have been foretold ...

... EXCAVATIONS IN THE FORUM. I A Rome correspondent telegraphs that the first block of marble belonging to the sculptured cornice of the Basilica 2Enailia came to light on Monday in the Forum. The fragment is in splen- did preservation, and is decorated with rosettes, which are known to have formed one of the dis- tinguishing features of the cornice of the Basilica. Other interesting remains, ...

... The Man About Town. I am afraid that I am completely out of sympathy with ghosts and spiritual phenomena. Old fashioned country people declare--l have heard them in the North, South, East, and West of our island—that ghosts only trouble the wicked, but they are all very timorous, give haunted houses a wide berth, and would sooner do many things than pass a graveyard at midnight. The ...

... Birmingham Sensation. DISCOVERY OF INFANTS' BODIES. The police are continuing their inquiries into the ghastly discovery of bodies in a cellar at Small Heath, Birmingham. The operations of a number of officers were yesterday directed to a thorough investigation of the house, and parti- cularly of the cellar. Some idea of the nauseous feature of the work can be formed from the fact that at ...

... GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY STRIKE I Montreal, Tuesday.—The Grand Trunk Rail- way have ordered their truckmen, who went on strike for an increase of wages yesterday, to return to work in 21 hours. The strikers, how- ever, show no sij.;n of yielding, the men being apparently regardless of results, and both sides seem determined to tight to the bitter end. There are rumours that the engineers a.re ...

... BATI-LESHIP IN COLLISION. A Devouport correspondent telegrapns alarming iuciclnnt occurred in Dcvonport Harbour on Monday afternoon. The battleship ,ouing- wood proceeding from the Sound into iheUh-inoa.ae collided with the training cruiser Curacao. The ewsh was distinctly heard aebore ...

... I VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER. Dr. Ambrose, the coroner for South Essex, yesterday afternoon resumed the inquest at East Ham concerning the death of Bertha Russ, aged five years, whose body was found in the cupboard of an unfinished house on March 5th. within a mile of her parents' house, at 29. Byron-avenue, East Ham. The child had been missing for a fortnight, being last seen alive as she was ...

... A Wife's Immoral Earnings. At Cardiff Police Court to-day (before the Stipendiary, Mr T. W. Lewis) William Daviss (24), described as a bookmaker, was charged on remand with living in part on the earnings of prostitution between April 17th and 30th. The case revealed a shocking condition of affaire, inasmuch as it was the prisoner's own wife upon whom he preyed. Rose Davies, of 24, Godfrey ...

... The annual dinner of the Newspaper Society was held last night at the Holborn Restaurant. Sir Hugh Gilzean Reid, the president, occupied the chair. Sir Walter Beeant, responding for Litera- ture, remarked that nowadays there were very few authors who were not journalists. That over- lapping of literature into journalism made jour- nalism literature, and was perhaps the greatest benefit that ...

... A HOLY YEAR. Rome, Thursday.- -This morning the Pope solemnly approved the Bull proclaiming this year a holy year. Monsignor Dell Aqaila, accom- panied by a. large, body of clergy, then proceeded to St. Peter's, where the Bull was read to the public. The Bull will be read in the public pla-ces of the city to-day.—-Central Jtfegfc ...

... Seven Years' Courtship. THE SAD FATE OF 11 DELICIA. I A MORAL FOR ENGAGED COUPLES. I At the London Sheriff's Court yesterday (be- fore Mr Under Sheriff Burchell and a, jury) Miss Marian Field, a. packing-case manufacturer's forewoman, aged 24 years, sued the defendant, Mr Harry Joseph Earl, of the King's Head Hotel, Hedworth, Warwickshire, to recover damages for breach of promise of marriage. ...