... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENti HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, April 20. The Lord-Chancellor took his seat on the Voolsack at a quarter-past four 'eclock. SCOTCH PETEIIONS. Lord Hopetoun presented a petition from the Edinburgh East Divisional Conservative Associa- tion in favour-of the Private Bill Procedure (Soot- land) Bill *1ONEY-LENDIND G BILIL Replying to the Earl of Kimberley, Lord JA. MES of HEREFORD ...

... I I By h:is trast disposition and settlement, dated 1t 114th February, 1893, the late Ad m Gibson, r-t ,.idipg at Ancrum, near Jedoergn, directs hisi ttrusteos, on the death of his mother should sh.e survive him, to pay to the City of Glsegow Native Benevolent Assoeiation £500, and to the Roy al i linfirmary of Glasgow the residue of his estate. By her tr-ust disposition and settlement, dated ...

... SOU H DIVISION. On Saturday forenoon the writ for South Edinburgh was received, and Sheriff Rutherfrd I fixed Wednesday next for thie nominations and the following Monday for the election. General R Wauchope, the Unionist, and Mr Dpwar, the'( Liberal candidate, have lost not an avnilable moment, and during the comparatively short time the contest will endure every portion of the large I ...

... THIR:D EDITION. ' R lnAULD OFC, .5.15 -A.I. THE IVAR EAST. s THE ACTION OF AISTR!A-HRURARY. 3 ((SrIAt TMEGBAM TO TEZ STASDALD OF TO'DAY-) a Vienna, March 31, Night. b According to a repori; from Pole, published in 1 the Western Lloyd am i elsewhere, the Austro- D | Hungarian corvette Saic la, 2550 tons, carrying 12 'c guns and a crew of 300 men, was ordered, when 'c I on her way to Americn, ...

... - ?? BAFRICA. I TR:AANSVAAL CONF3ERENCE. ti t( Mr Kruger Leaves for Bloemfontein. Y ::n. - ?? s veLsEGE As.) - Pretoria, Mfay 30. V President Kruger and: the: 'officials of the w Foreign Department- who are accompanying him left to-daylfor Blo'emfontein. Many officials and members of the two Raads, s1 as well as a large gathering of the general publc,- iassembled to bid the6 patty a cordial ...

... WEATHER REPORT AIW !QD Ai S |MeteortogicalOFdtay'8 ?? s- To-day the pressure wasbighest (301 inches a nd upwards) over the north-east of Scotland, the west of Norway, and the intervening parts of thes I _North Sea, and 301 inches .id unwards in an ar-ticyclone covering tbh whole, of Nortb-Western iEurope; lowest (291 inches and wpwards) in a large sballow depression lying over the lberia ...

... CANADIAN AFFAIRS (mom OUR oWN co maso r.la - Halifax, N.S., May 15, 1899. The-miners in the Yukon rerbeginzing to talk about the wash-up lnd to estimate in advance the value of their dumps. The promise is regarded as exceedingly good. The following estimate of the output of the creeks n Iear Dawson was recently furnished by a Dawson citizen to a West- era paper :-Eldorado, $2,50,000; Bonanza, ...

... THlE CObGO FREE STATE. A BRITISH OFFICER'S EXPERIENCE. Maladministration and Cannibalism. A representative of Renter's Agency has had ainterview with Lieitenant Frank J. Anre, British subject, i the serts of the Congo Free State, who has reached -Englod on sick leave from Barombu, on the Upper 'Congo, five weeks' journey- from the coast, where he hdd the post of Chef de Station. Ha and Captain ...

... -ARRIVAL OF COMMISSION. German Claims for Compensation -Statement by Mataafa. (n s AUSSOCIATION TELEGRAM) Apis, Bay 17 (via Auckland, May 25). The International Commission arrived here on the 13th inst, and held its first sitting on the 16th, when the Commissioners were engaged all the morning in corferring With the Chief-Justice. Nothing, however, ha been disclosed, so far, as to the result ...

... I.1PE.RIAL PARlAMDNT to tho ATilitalvo Loans Bill Mouid bv allccltedb for thss ...

... IMIPERIAL PrARLIAMENJT.I HorSE or COmmONS. WEDNESDAY, June 7. 0 The Speaker took the Chair at noon. I' Paisley and Barrhead District Railway Bill. This bill, which has already passed through the House of Lords, was read a second time. SERVICE FRANCHISE BILL The House went into Committee on this bill- Mr 3. W. Lowther taking the chair. Mr MKEINNA moved to leave -ut certain it words in clause 1, ...

... T'iLE VOLUNTEER M11RUSS ETRY I RETURNS. Iu I2T*%E: STE9.N DI3TR!ST. have been sipplied with the Lee-MIetford rifle, anI the class firing for the past season has been performed with this weapon. Last year the MaTrtini-Henry was still in their possession, and therefore the various battalions could hardly be compared in any satisfactory manner with those of their more fortunate comrades. Thoy are ...