... I SAMOA SIgnor I r MORE- FIGHTING WITH Tt REBELS. WITHDRAWAL SF MATAAFA-ORDET o SUSPEND HOSTILTES, (PBB2 AssoCrAkfON UcXIAL Apia April 27. (Via Aceland, MLay45 The rebel stronghold at Vailima was eapti1e iafter it had been, shelled- The rebel, @uflere c onsideraly, losin. many wounded. Streaso house was riddled. ?? 22daskrnh ishtookl peerentce between a large body af rebtes and Liea Gsunt's ...

... - ?? 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ,AGBICI I WEELYRETEWOF THE CRAWM TRAIL / The rainfall ofE April varied with county andT rpoaition. but~in London i reached 3735inhsad In hew to England 4 ince wsfrequently exceeded. The effect upon the growing wheat has Libeen very unsatisfactory, and a general loss ofo 'colour is to ha noted. Whether barleyloswl [or not is a moot point, for while it has come on Pfast with the rain there are ...

... | THE QUEEN'S Visit TO LONDON. (FPOX TrE COURT emCOLAE.) Buckingham Palace, Tuesday. The Queen's dinner party last evening included their Royal Higlnesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse, Printess Henry of Battenberg, the Duke of York, Count Albert Mensdorff, the Duchess of Bucclench, the Dowager Lady Churcbill, and' Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Eon. Sir Fleetwood Edwards. ?? ?? ...

... |GLASGOW TRADES HOUSE A meeting of the Trades' House of Glas.'0 was held yestcrday - Deacon Convenr CeS presiding. THE LATE DEACOS CONVMEx Ui'tNnaS. Mir Luomeden (the clerk) read a letter froc Miss M'Lennuar, acknowledging, on behalf d her mother and other members of the fnmoy. te minute of the House expressing sympatby ski them in the death of the late Deacon Ccuveaue M'Le-nn 'EB BECASNN' ...

... [THE GENERALf ASSEsIBLI-S pi Edn:burgh,Wednesday Evening.. The, dinner of the representative. elders'of. PI the city ad Presbytery of Glasgow isi a V ifunction whiich: is not legally ?? the Genera Assembly of the Church of h, Scotland. We have had so much trouble 9 Ihis week over iacademic questions, nice I readings of ecolesiaatical etiquette, that it F is as. well to be quite precise on the! ...

... I ASSEMBLY REPORTS. i CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. I] The volume containing the reports of coren- mittees to be laid before the ensuing meeting of the General Assembly of the Church of Scot- land has just been issued. We subjoin abstracts of reports:- H s Horne Missions. l The Home Mission Committee report that there i are under their care 82 mission ohurches, as against | 76 in the previous year, ...

... 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 ...

... I YOUNG MES AS CITIZENS. I Last evening, in Trinity Church, Dr Hunter delivered the last of his teries of discourses on Civic Life andDutr. The test was Lamentz- tions 1, 12- Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by. That classie passage, he said, was a originally the appely of a city personifiedd as a ao suppliant for sympoo'hy and help. It was in its n original sense ho used it that ...