... GEORGE HOOPER & CO.. LONDON, LIB TE'D. This company biis been formed with an autho- rised celpitl olf £129,000, divitdd into 15,000 51- per cent. cunmulative ir'st picicrefnce sh1ares of £5 each. 20,000 52 per cent. cumulative second pre- terent shnares Li £1 each, and 30.000 ordinary hbares of £1 eacht. The firt preterenuce shares a. Dffered at par. The ho!lders of the-se sharer ar,; pntnled ...

... DvBL1s, MIONDAY NIGHT. A meeting of the Privy Council was held to-day in the Council Chamber, Dublin Castle. There were ?? Excellency Earl Cadogan, ?? the Lord Chancellor, Lord Morris, the Right Honourabole Mr. Justice O'Brien, the Right Honourable the Attorney-General, MY.P.; the Right Honourable Sir Richard Martin, Bart. ; the Right Honourable AV. J. Pirrie, J.P. The Soli- citor-General, M.P ...

... OUR LOiN?UJUN LETTER. BL; oUR PleiaIVTEt ?? ?? j: BELFA1ST. ? EwS,-LvTr2R GeTnes n 435, STRsANcD, W.C., Stl>DAY NxGoT. 1 The Separatist LoadershiP. Ir. I'homas E llis, MV.., Onposition whip, sems in no ?? cdli tjoether the English, WVelsh, atnd S'ottisn Rflvdicals hi order to electG Sir Wim. Harcourt's seees-o'. As Sir Henry Campbell-BanfletiLtma is tat be the new Opposition, si leader, no ...

... MErEOROLOGICAL REPORT. ?? StaNDARD I)STRUMENTS P.T SaitAisAN D. NrzE, 01nt1ClAN'. DOENEoLL PLACE!. . . . .aiht Vain.rt . tie Variable ?? ! I ?? .~ 3 , 5-- i sl-~~ ~~~I S.S- ?? j,; it.' -I : uot-ica Inos inldioatt hebtit hrir tnomeer a ezaono, Cla k i'es ai mid-i ght. Init ial letters ltS' l- re ion-- tolvf wit.i z. ierrorrv ils Jor n-.in, soitl S. AI, S E, endlr ?? snobll-it nitpldly al.oy ...

... A POLICY OF IMPERIALISM. BIRMINGHeMR, SnTrnoDA NIGcHT. - The Rigllt 3Honourable Joseph Cham'berlain was tlie principal speaker at the annual dinner of the Birmin-h'ro. Jewellers' and Silversmiths Association to-nialit. Responding to the toast of Ren Majestyes Ministers, 31r. Chamberlain said-I read in ?? news- paper the other day that I had lost whatever little popularity I once enjoyed in ...

... INMPORTANT NEW IRISH INVENTION. There is at present on show at 52, Upper Arthur Street. a newly-patented combined acetylene pl(it, which seems destined to entirely Tevolu- tionise the produotion of gas-to do awvay, in fact, with all the other methods of gas mantfacture hitherto employed. It. consists of four principal paxrts, each of then drumu-.shaped, but of varying raes, and connected with ...

... I FR0133M OUR LOCAL cOnRESPONflRT. I The militia training programume of 1899 will shortly be, published. So far as the Belfast district is concerned the trainings will be much the same as last year. At Holywood Colonel Graves, C.B., will command a lrigada of the Royal Irish Rides. At uhinner Camro, Bundoran, there will be two brigades of the Royal Inniskillen Fusiliers and the Postal Irish ...

... DuBLIN, SUNDAtY NiGnn. To-morrow week their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and Countess Cadogan will be present at a gathering of distinguished people in Alexandra College. His Excellency will speak in aid of a building fund which will be started on the occa- sion to enlarge the institution. The Right Hon- ourable W. H. Lecky, ?? will also maie a speech. The opening of the Castle season ...

... THE FAT-ATL ICE ACCIIYPNT AT CARRICK- I ~~~FERGUS, THE INQUEST. Yesterday Dr. Arthur Mussen, J.P., district coroner, held an inquest in Woodburn Factory Reading Room on the bodies of John Smyth (10) and Alfred Burgess (11), -who were accidentally drowned in the Woodburn Factorv dam on the 28th inst. Head-Constable Atrwell represented the constabulary. Wmi. Gardner deposed he was an engine ...

... 0TxIls15HT.NJX PLUNKETT IN BELFAST pINRIN THE REFORM CLUIP. LNIRL>TING SPEECHES. S TFIE pOPOSED BOARD OF AGR111ICUELT UR.E. A W *Ot as Pie-n ii) the Reform Club t: ?? gest being theI It*T~j- Iirkaket,, )P.. who (i ?? ,erlezas p itit rthe Crniiestedt D;'.rit cr alntli, na and indus- 111 jrvsurit Governiment. dir'' I? 1'rlry secretary to L..bou: was also pre- !~n ll J.. presided, and t~ h11i'.'i ...

... MORE HOPEFUL NEWS FROM ILOILO. THE POSITION IN LUZON. Telegraphing from Manila under date of January 29th, a Press Association special correspondent ! ?? just received here from Iloilo state that an election was held there on the 17th, at which Ramon Melliza was chosen President for a term of two years, and General Copez, his prede- cessor, was made commander-in-chief. Mellisa is kindly ...

... T l E C.OUI, C OF IPtELAND. DERRY AND P APHOF DI OCESANT COUNCIL. The couaioil met oii the 25th inst. Iii tilelirr of she Synttoil Hall- tha Lord Bishoti in i-he c-auir I IThere ?? ii tl~lit ?? Dozn' of Du-rry. thu Aiehdseis'n of Pet rv, Rev's. Galinet Lorte. LL.DP. ICitoti lovtson, Cl'msi' Pa)ILtte r, Callon Hftycms. Ca illti tbtil t' titli. Johnl AtAdtin', E. Gi. Warrenl, Yw' A. Ey Xuteiphy ...