... MR. FISCHER'S CONFERENCE. THE FRANCHISE PROPOSALS. ALARTM AMONG TRADERS. Pretoria, Wednesday.-Mr. Fischer's con- ference with the Transvaal Executive con- cluded to-day. The general impression is that the mission has been successful. The result will not be announced until his pro- posals have been laid before the Volksraad on Monday next. It is understood some alterations have been made in his ...

... I MR. AUBREY H. SMITH & THE HON. ELSIE GROSVENOR. St. Andrew's Church, Wells-street, London, was the scene of a fashionable wedding yesterday (Thursday), the happy pair being Mr. AUbrey Hugh Smith (lieutenant in the Royal Navy), fourth son of Mr. Hugh Smith (Governor of the Bank of England), and the Hon. Elsie Grosvenor, eldest daughter of Lord Stalbridge (who was M.P. for County Flint from ...

... SAU POULtI LAt S --A SALUES POPtJLI LEX! SAPRtEUA. THIS MORNING'S NEWS IN BRIEF. The French Ministry were defeated in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday on resolutions arising out of the events of Sunday. Subse- quently their resignation was handed to the President and accepted. Private legislation procedure for Scotland was the subject which occupied mainly the attention of the H~ouse of ...

... (SPECIALLY CABLED.) NEW YORX, WEDNESDAY. lMr. C. H. Shirrell, a member of the joint Yale and Harvard University Athletic Com- mittee, announces that all differences of opinion between this side and the Oxford and Cambridge Committee have been ad- justed. There is now nothing to prevent I the contests being brought off without friction. A cyclone last night completely wiped out the township of ...

... I THE POULTRY INDUSTIRY. In Considering poultry kp.-n.^g qsvn o2.t (says a writer in the Land .Mazazi::Av''ir: essential to recognize ce-rt-i SDCial ars-a-e-s between the farmer and hisLi. 1: han :wre S 5.l;,Iost unive-sal clsatn.a for :> u'-nf r.nte o en- garded as the perqueeite ot ?? rum lb is by no means. conained Lo Brinzain. bat prcsl.V it has had here a wider reacing iflfitO2 ?? ...

... GROCERS, ASSISTANTS' UNION. , TO TEE FDITORS OP THE LIVERPOOL MERCuaR. Gentlemen,-May I be permitted to draw the attention of grocery and provision assistants to the Liverpool Branch of the National Associa- tion of Grocers' Assistants. ~any years ago the master grocers found it expedient to form their own organisations, independent of drapers, ironmongers, and other branches of the retail ...

... WAYERTREE L yGROUNDI | I~~ ?? P ?? TO THE EDITORS OP THE LIVfPOOL MERcY. Gentleinen.-Now that this fine present to our city is looking so well, it is a pity that it is not made more use of by the residents of Smithdown- road. Looking at the dozen or iD roads running on to and across Garmoyle-road, any afternoon or evening, you will see that hundreds of young children are playing about the ...

... DIvIsIoNt OF SEFTON WARn.-At the meeting of the City Council, on Wednesday. a letter will be read from Mr. A. W. Fitzroy, of the Privy Council Office, enclosing a copy of an Order of her Majesty in Council, dividing Sefton Park Ward into two wards, and increasing the number of the councillors by three and the number of aldermen by one. THi CORPORATIOx AND TitE ANDERTON HALL ESTATE.-Anpended is ...

... MAIL NEWlYS The following mrails are a,- .- Liverpool to-rn: '~ : ' - To We-: and t-t 'o - ?? 10) zt-m To Jlava- and az.mni-. v- Per Netherian'- p. ;e ' w~ith Jad. iate frc. af ?? ' -- ~ To Egypt ai-d ira v- packet.-G.P.. Ti'p-: To the Congo. vi, .; t North Arnenca-Fiu' t _ from Liverpool tzr ?? 1 ?? _ ' SerViasaclir g via. Qea .-i with id. late fee. tI- , r letters will be forwarde-; Germnan ...

... CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES. Yesterday innumerable telegrams of congratu- lation reached the Liberal headquarters at Southport upon the triumph gained the pre- vious day. Sir George Pilkington, M.P., re ceived many similar messages addressed to him personally at Belle Vue, his Southport resi- dence. Amongst those who sent their hearty congratulatious were Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman, M.P., the ...

... The muoh-debated question of standards ft milk is still an open one in this country. Legally-enacted standards would undoubtedly sdiplify judicial proceedings, but there is the risk lest justices should be over-ridden by law, as might be the cnae where milk, as naturally drawn from the cow's udder, fell below the re- quirements of the Legislature Mi the percentage of fat. On the other hand, it ...

... I 1 (From last niqht's Gazete. J RECEIVING ORDERS. John A. Reid, Walbrook, London. merchant. Horace Sedger, Piccadilly, London, theatrical manager. John ri. Jones, Manllwyd House, Penygroes, quarryman and shopkeeper. Greenwood, Clayton, and Haworth. Whalley Bark Mills, Blackburn, cotton n unacturers. Farrell and Hitton, Market-place, Leigh, plunbers and glaziers. Frederick W. Goulding. Staple ...