... ITlE WIDENING OF DEAN LANE. PENNETT v. THE 1311ISTOIL CORPO fAkTlON. i The arbitration proceedings in the case of Bennett v. The Bristol Corporation were resumed on Saturday at the Surveyors' Institution, Savoy street, London. a Mr I'. Vigers, the President of the Institution, was t 'y the sole empire. MIr IFreeman, Q.C.,andAIrlGregory t represented the claimants, and the Hon. A. t hyttleton ...

... wNiotrict P. MO. BATH. St . Jan es's vestry yesterday afternoon, by 16 votes to 9, decided to rescind the motion passed in Decern- ber not to appoint a representative to confer with the Finance Committee. Mr E. R. Blackett was appointed as the representative. At a meeting of the School Board yesterday, Mr J. W. Morris presiding, Mr Bush drew attention to the fact that last year the average ...

... ~ZDC IPulpit+ Tlhe lev Stopford B3rooke preachled yesterday mlolning at Lewvin's :Mead lmeeting plave on tihe subjeet of T lie work of righteousliess in peaee, his text being Isaiah xxxii. 17. Righteousness (he said) is a state of the soul, in which the true, just, pure, magnanimious and honourable thing is thoughlt and felt so vitally that the will I is ruled by it, and the aet that fits it ...

... I lWEST OF ENGLAND I SANATORIUM. I ANNUAL MRETINC;. The annual meeting was held at the Institution, Weston-super-Mare, on Saturday. Mr FrancisJ. Fry (Bristol) presided, and there were also present the Ven. Archdeacon of Wells, the Rev WV. S. Tomkins, the Rev M. B. Saunders (hon. chaplain), Dr G. B' Fraser (hon. medical officer), Dr Swete, Messrs T. Mullins (hon, sec.), J. T. Nicholetts, T. .f. ...

... 1CDC 36riztel mmrurp WVEDN ESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 189D. rhe BRnsToL DMERcUnY was established March 1, 1790 Tile BRISTOL DAILY POST wVaS issued in conjunction YvithI the mEmICURY January 24, 186o, and incorporated with it January 26, 1678. TuELPiONE ;No. 149. I'Vaits. 117a. do not object to the adoption of the Docks Committee's report with icgorlid to the salary of the - 1-As v A .- A 1 . new ...

... , varict P, MM King BIATHI. noon The annual meeting of the Southern Dispensary was held yesterday morning in the committee room Ldon, of the Institution. Mr Russell Duckworth presided. red a The report and balance sheets were taken as read. The medical offlicer's report stated that during the *w11 year 1898, the number of tickets issued was 696, an increase of 31 over the previous period. Of ...

... A Nonconformist View. Meeting at Kingswood. A well attended public meeting was held at Zion Methodist Free Church, Kingswood, last night, the programme being a lecture, entitled Sacerdotalism Opposed to the Word of God, by the Rev O. H. H. Wright, D.D., M.A., Pb.D. Mr G. B. Britton, C.C., presided, and was influentially supported. The CHAIRMAN, speaking of the conspiracy within the Church ...

... IrbC rtfotol facrterp WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1899. The BRiSTOL mIvpcflRl was established March 1, 1790 The BRISTOL DAILY POST was issued in conjunction ivitt hthe MEI~CVRY January £4,1660, and incorporated 'with it January 26, 1878. TELEwrmoE No. 149. Tue Queen's | Speech, WE do not know whethlc Lord Salisbury nourishes the Raclical design of abolishing the empty formality of the Queen's ...

... YESTERDAY. The Sth Session of the 14th Parliament of the Queen and of the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was opened yesterday by Royal Commission. In the House of Lords at the opening ceremony there were, as usual, many ladies present. Four back seats on the Opposition side and three on the Ministerial side were given up to the fair sex, and the Strangers' ...

... The usual meeting was hold yesterday morning, and attended by Mr BR. E. Nurse (chairman), Mr J. J. T hatcher (vice-chairmau), the Rev C. Croucher, Messrs (.J. 13. Ta lor; J, Johnson, H. . Davics, S. Nicholls, A. Lovell, S. Churchill, S. Gingell, F. C. Fawkes, 3. Millard, T. Anstey, J. iNewman, and W Fry. t l ~~~OU'T ]RLIM .' The relief granted during the week ending 18th r1ebruary was as ...

... ler ANNUAL MEETING IN BRISTOL. lad ue The annual meeting of the Bristol and South tad Western Counties Vigilance Association was held fa yesterday afternoon at the Hannah More hall, Park ,at street, when Canon Brenan presided over a fairly Yer large attendance. ong The Rev JACrsS DAVIDSON presented the 12th 'he annual report, which stated that another year's ier steady work had been done. ...

... Meeting of Convocation. Speech by the Primate. A joint meeling Of the two I-louses of Convocation [ and the I-louse of Laymen was held yesterday after- noon in the great ball of the Church House, London, under the presidency of the Archbishop of Canter- bury. His Grace said he had asked the members of Convocation to meet him b. cause there were certain matters very giavely affecting the Church ...