... I RIOTERS ARRESTED--AN OFFICER iNJURED. Belfast, Monday., The Nationalist procession which proceeded through the streets of Belfast this forenoon to Hanwahstown., where a meeting was held, caused very little disturbance in the forenoon, but at night the city in ginso of the party districts was in a very ?? cross thestreets at. anl the more dangerous points. Awaiting the portion of the ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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, ...

... TfE 4- TRANSYL CRISIS. I NEGOTIATIONS AT PRETORIA. C A MORE HOPEFUL VIEW. (rrpss ASSOCIATION TiET..EBtS-)1' | Cape Town, Jine 27. Mr Dieperink, the Rand member for Johannes- burg, who has arrived here, disclaims being; charged with any mission. The resolution to be proposed .t to-mnorrow's meeting of the inhabitants of Cape Torwan and to te suburrbjs undrser th e ?? -riad asi tel recent ...

... COLLIERY ACCIDENT IN AY2RSHIRPE. FIFTEEN MEN ENTOMBED. SUCCESSFUL RESCUE. A colliery accident, which it was at first feared would be attended with considerable loss of life, occurred in a coal pit in Ayrshire yesterday. Water broke into the colliery belonging to the Gauchalland Coal Company, near Galston, and rose so quickly that before all the maen coold be drawn to the surface the means of ...

... I END OF EDINBURGH AND LEITH | ,JOINERS' STRIKE. !At the usual mneeting of Joiner-s on strike yes-I terday the Secretary (Nr Munro) intimated that he had received a letter from the Masters' Aso- ciaticn stating that they had agreed to concede; the operatives' demands. The chairman (Mr Lawson) and- the secretary were appointed to attend at the Building Trades Exchange to re- ceive the signed by ...

... I VELASQUJEZ TRCENTENARIY. This week Spain celebrates in fitting manner ri the tercentenary of, the birth of her greatest a painterd Velasquez, the most modern in spirit 'i of al tihe old masters. On Sunday these s memorial festivities will end with the unveiling ' o of a statue in Madrid to the great seventeenth i century painter. For many years Murillo was , n generally accepted as the ...

... I JLABOUTh AFFAIRS. j SCOTTISH PMINES' EIGHTI HOURS DEMOITRATtON. A miners' demonstration warstedd in Edihit'gh yesterday in celebration of tthestwenty-Din.1 h an- niversary of the introductioa of the eight-hours system of working at the collieries of Fife-and Clackmannazn, The demonstration culminafed in a mass meeting, which tookplace in the Wrnerley Market, and which included a considerabhL ...

... THIE CESSION OF THE C.A.ROLIXE10s. (EcrEar TELEGBA.) Madrid, Jurne 8. The draft treaty vith Germany relating to the cession of the Carolinas, the Pelews, and the Marianuaes was read at yesterday's Cabinet' Council. Sencr Silvela, in an interview with the Madrid ccrrespou'ent of the Lokalaazeiger, is re- presented to have stated that the adoption of tse Carlines Treaty by the Cortes was ...

... Operations have been going on for a consider- able time on the Glasgow end South-Western. Railway in connection with the extension of St Enoch Station. The pressure of traffic has been growing in recent years and the scheme of alteration es very elaborate. Though it will be a good while before the work reaches completion, it is progressing rapidly. The alterations will add considerably to the ...