... BELFAST IHAPBOTR BOARTD. e Sir James Musgrave, Bart., D.L., presided ovel the bimonthly meeting of this Trust, held in the slharbour offices yesterday morning. The attend- t ance included the Right Honourable W. J. Pirrie, It J.P.; Sir Daniel Dixon, DL.; &1essrs. S. e Lawther, 3.P. ; R. Thompson, J.P.; W. H. s Dixon, J.P.; John Davidson, J.P.; John Work- e man, J.P.; D. B. Lytle, J.P.R James ...

... ?? | THE IRISH MAILS DELAYED. The City of Dublin Steampacket Company's Mail steamer left Holyhead yesterday morning at 8.14 and landed passengers and mails at 10.55 eat Carlisle 'Pier, Kingstown. Both passe& d, gers and mails were five hours and a half be- re hind time when they reached Holyhead. The a delay Was due to an accident on the line at is Penmaenpeach, whern the track gave way last ...

... i-ITIRD t DITION| (BY SkscIA r W13& Freeman O'ca, MONDAY MORNIG&, HALF;.ASr TFIVE O'OLON. NECW SOU D1AN RULXE. BRITISH INFPANTRY GOING UP ,, THE NILE.1 ' I The Cairo eorspoudent of th e Doily Mail a ?? companies of the Irish Fsilier d have been ordered to tie Soudan whic'n has e hitherto been garrisoned only by Egyp- tian and Sondaniese regiments. The twor companies will 1e& on Tursday, to ...

... ROTUNDA WARD NATIONAL REGISTRA. TION ASSOCIATION I . . .. I . The usual weekly meating of this association was held at 14 Granby row on Thursday even- ing, ?? Thormas M'Auley in the chair. I Amongst thoee pesent ?? Doyle. Councillor J P Nannetti, Councillor O'Hara, Michael ,Ward,. V P; J J Leech soliciter; PatriCk- vLncf, P LG; S Skelly Thomae Doyle P Wyan, Thomas Loughlin, Michael Doyle,J ...

... DISABLED ATrANTIC. LINER! TEOWED INTO QUEENSTOWN. I INTERV1EW WI PH THE CAPTAIN. Quecustuwn, Thursday. The Hamburg-American liner Alesia arrived ! I at Queenstown to-day in tow of two tugs, one steering the vessel owing to the defect in hec I gear. The Commander statec that after leav- | ilg Hamburg on the 27th ult with fifty pas- ! sengere fearful weather wai experienced, and| on the 11th ...

... AMRBICAN IMPERIALISM. I Tas Philippine Islands, lying seven hundred miles south of Hong Kong, and thousands of miles from San iFrancisco, seem destined to bave more influeuce on ths future of the American Republic than any quescion that has arisen in America since the Civil War. It is only by degrees, annd very slowly, Otht the people of rue United Sttes sre beginning to appreciate thegreat ...

... THE ACTION OF THE LABOUR REPRE- I I ~~SENTATIVBS.| we have received the following official re- port:- Yesterday evening a meeting of the membeib of the Labour party in the new Dublin Cor- poration was held in the Library of the Trades Hall, Capel street,with the object of determin- ing the course to be adopted by the party on the occasion of the first meeting of the new constituted Dublin ...

... PROVINCIAL-. NEWS. THE IBISHOP OPF CLOYNE AND THE NiATIONALt kACHIES. Cork, Wednesday. Mr W Cotter; secretary cf the Fermoy National Ttachere, has received tho following letter from the Bishop of Uloyae- Bisbop'a Hos, Queenstown, 15th February, I899. na Mu loms-I regret that owing to my absence fo homle the sesolution which you forwarded to me trom the meeting of the Fermoy National Teacher' ...

... ! - I (FItOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) (BY SPECIAL ltIRE.) Londoii, Tuesdlay Morninc. Il is stated that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach sitS io insist on exacting the death duties on a SuI of £4B4.000,000 which the Empress of At.nia had deposited with the Bank of Eng- 'The sum seems a large one, and it taken that it is greatly exaggerated. Bllyway, when the late Czar left a con- - l*r'l>e sum in the Bank ...

... i UNITED JR1811 LEBAGwUE. FIRST MEETING OF THi CON-j NAUGHT PROVINCIAL :DIRECTORY. Claremorris, Thsday. The first meeting of the Connaught Dirnc- tory of the United Irish League 2as held here to-day, Mr P A M'Hugh, M P (North Sligo I Executive), presokng. The proceedinigs were conducted in private. The following communi- cation was made to the Press:- ' On the motion of Mr William O'Brien ...

... CATHOLIC GUARDIAN I ASSOCIAT1ON. i * fI iu * ANNUAL MEETING IN LONDON. London, Tuesday. a ' The annual mneeitig of the Catholic Guardianr ro :Association was held yesterday at the house of the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vauu--l ghan. His Emnmence, who was to have Pre- sided, was unavbidably absent, and his place I was taken by Nonesgnor Moves. The annual report read by the hon ...

... I IRISH ASSOCIATION DISTRICT On Saturday the first meeting of t.he new committee of the Irish Association District of the Institute of Journalists was held at their offices, 4 College green, Mr M P Ryle in the chai. There were also present--3essrs T R Barrington J CI'Grath, hon see; C Le- hane, and F C Wallis-Healy, secretary. Mr Wm J Ryan, Daily Nation ; Mr Pa- trick J. Fogarty, Irish ...