... AGRICULTURE CHEAP JACKS AT CAM SHOWS, Interesting Decision at Ayr. Sheriff Orr Paterson, Ayr, yesterday gave b;s decision in a case of some mportance to seoe- taries of agricultural societies and other John Smith, dealer, S0 Hayfield Street, Glasgow, sued Mr John Howie, secretary of tne Ayrshire Agri- cultural Association, for £5 in name of repazasa and solatium for ?? seizure and detention ...

... LABOUR A AI i. I., 'B6m THE SCOTTISH MINERS. ti The Contract Question in the- Lothians. ' t] Considerable dissatisfaction has aris n certaila large collieries in the Lothians, and a stoppage of g work may follow. It seems that much mini work is done through contractors, and the miners a71 complain that they are failing to receive ?? t agreed upon from these middlemen. The work- men have no ...

... I CHUROC OF -SCOTLAND. - 1 MONDAY, May 22. Tho General Assembly resuned& to-day at 11:: ?? John Pagan, Bothrwell, Moderator. The Benefice Register. Mr Thomas.Burns, Lady Glenorchy's, Edin- burgh, submitted the report of the Committee on the Benefice Register and Church Records. The worok, the report stated. bald net progressedl en speedily as the aecesgeitie of the poae demaded. 'This Wa to he ...

... LETTERS TO TG7E EDITOR. WILTJTAM BLACK :k1EM6Tar0IAL FUjND. Citr ChamAnbersr Glasgow, ADil 26, 189. Sir.--v1 St1' rcicrence nS ivy !(Ittor of 1--hl in--ant, h ezg to send subjained a cony of a letter 'jhiefsl the Iori I Provost ias received irorn The Lorc'rd Archibald Camrpbeil to which. perhaps Ycr: w will be good enough to give puhlicity.-I aam, bC., Joux S. S.AtMUEL. 'Combo Bill Farm, ...

... S - ?? fARRIVAL OF' OIGRE T'POOPS.I PREPARATIDNS FOR AM ADVANCE. (wecEcBais races A S5CECIA COP-RF.5rONDExv.i New York, February 25. T'he arrival of nearly 2000 troops, under General; WIseatol, at Manila yesterday has placed GeneraIj Otis in a position to beg.in fresh operations against the insurgents from Caloocan on the north andl San Pedro Mlakate on the south-east. A forwardj movement is ...

... i DISARMAMENT CONFE REYKCE. I I THE REPHESENTATIVE OF NORWAY AND I SWEDEN. (aZanTEe'S ITLxaREAIL= Christiania, February 25. Count Douglas Common, Minister of Foreign; Affairs for Sweden and NorWay, has requested I ¶M. Gram, ?? Minister of Justice, to' represent Sweden and Norway at the forthcom- ing disarmament conference. M1. Gram, however, ihas declined the appointment. According to the ! I ...

... The Pope's words to the Rector of the Scots' t College, whici I quoted in the H crald hast week, have a force-I iad almost said a smart- neesm-not perhaps appreciated at the first glance. e People are talking of a conclave, he said; i I am thinking of a corsistory. That is, people F are looking forvard to the conclave of cardinals t which ?? elect the next Pope; he is intending to hold a ...

... hURISH LANDOWlYNERS. I WLfAL GlOMERNMEiNT ACT. 1Ilie annuaI meeting of the Irish Landowners' Convention. was held yesterday in Dublint under the presidency of His Grace the Duke of Abet- corn. There was a large attendance of delegates. Tetters of apology were read from a number of lsandolvners who found it inconvenient to attend. The President, addressing the Convention, ob- served that, as ...

... -W,=S AND DEQ=, STS, I - (From the fliustrated London News.) The ait- and cocdeiil (both dated December 24, 1894), and two other codieils (dated September 19, 1895, and July i, 1E96), of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph William Chitty, Lord Justice of Appeal, of 33 Queen's Gate Gardens, SW., who died on February 15, were prayed on March 15 by Arthur John Chitty and toseph Henry Pollock Chitty, tbh ...

... COLONIAL .InSTITUTE I .DINNER. Last evening, at the Hotel Metropole, London, the annua dinner of the Royal Colonial Institute was held. The Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen was in the chir. The loyal toasts having been honoirred, Sir Charles Rivers Wilson proposed The Naval and Military Forces of the Empire, to which Vice- Akdriiral Nathaniel Bwowden Smith and General Sir Arthur Lion ...

... TNE QUEEN'S MIS§T TO P!l - (Itr=Tzu. T'EGU4MI.) Nice, March 25. The weiather this morning was cool, the sky being overcast. 'he Queen, accompanied by Princess Henry of Battenberg and the Duchess of York, went for a drive in her donkey chaise in the grounds of tho VsilL Liscrh. iand past the grounds of the -ilhas Mlonterey and Moucebello. 'ho sky cleared 'in the afternoon, and there was ...

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