... [NATAL PARLTIAMENT AND Si'tATION.- APPROVAL OF IMlPERIAL GOVERNIMENT POLICY. (Pnxss ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SPECIAL.) Pietermarit'aburg, Wednesday. In consequence of a notice of motion on the Transvaal question, given by Mr Baynes, for to-day's sitting of the Legislative As- sembly, there was a. practically full attend- ance, every member being present except one, while the public galleries were ...

... wnDLThG OF COLONDL STEWART 1 MIKDENZT. l The marriage of Colonel Stewart Mackenzie of Sesforth and Brahan Castle, Ross-shire, to Miss Mary Steinkcopff, only daughter of Mr Henry Steinkopff of Lyndhurdt, Sussex, and 47 Berkeley Square, London, was soleminised yesterday after- noon at the Speaker's Church, St Mlargaret's, Westminster, in the presence of a large and fashionable gathering. The ...

... THE NIGERI COMPANY QU ESTION. EXPLANATION OF THE BiRGAIN. A WORD FOP, TME COMPANY. (PngSs ASS)CXL.TION Ft01RI1CN SPECIAL.) L-mqdon, 'liesday nidLht- Ini view of tho seortnd reading of the Niger (Comapaovy 1il, 1i thie-I is fixoed for to-morrow, RcitorI's Ageollc hag obt:tia ed the following state- lleut flit-m all aLit hon;lative souree:- -1 gooidl deal of tuisopprehlellsion appears to exi-t ...

... i , AGIICULTURAL. THE NORTHUMBERLAND AGtst1 sL TURAL SIOW. The Northumberland Agricullurnl Society held its annual show at Maorpth onl Thursday. Tbs entries numbered 1244, as compared with 1612 for the three days' show held at Newcastle last year and 1145 when the show waYs Ile held at Merpeth in 1895. They comprised 81 cattle, 163 Illeep 337 horses, 1 pig, 455,implenicias, 32 d(ogs, and 176 ...

... I STARTLING GAIRIBALDIAN I PROJECT. REPUBLIC TO BE FORMED. POPE'S PROTECTION TO BE SECURED. (DAILY TELEGRAPH TrLEGRAM.) Rome, Sunday night. Everyone here is talking of the projects and aims of General Riccotti Garibaldi in going. to Sbuth America. He is due to arrive in Buenos Ayres to-day or to-morrow and his ostensible object is to colonise Patagoniad with Italians. Huge tracts of land ari ...

... | THE PHILIPPINES. ALLEGED MUDDLING AT MANILA. PREKIDENT PUZZIII3ID. NEWSPAPER COBRRESPON DRNTS IN RE VOLT. (DAILY NEWS TELEGRAM.) New York, AMonday. The statements of the newspaper corres- pondents at Manila regarding tile actual condition there, and the misrepresentation caused by the censorship, create little sur- prise here, or at Washington, because the official despatches from General ...

... [THE FRASERBURGH SLAUGHTER- I HOUSES. |ff ER-j FUaTHN& oP1:NONs. The oundition of the Broadsea slaughter-houses, writes a corresponddent, continues to excite the greatest interest in the district, aind there has been considerable discussion ol the subject. it would appear that the state of affairs revealed in the report of Mr Alexander, the Fraserburgh burgh surveyor, has been in existence for ...

... Aui,,or,,k BOREALIS ACAD-EMICA-1 AUROR: U OtE.ATlIS ACA\D1MICAl The ietc~t arldditioi to Abordeen ITniver- el itV itt'lret1 W-ru be widely wektiie-t eii neerrlb both (if the authors aud the svrb ar eets 'Ih1e ..r!r-title indicates the cluirroeter wv illad scope el thle Irk, A*berdeoii IlTiver- bt kporLT1M101l.,;, iS60-lS8it. PUritg this perOd of Z$ *-eat's tile tuniVersity produtced b or ...

... jTHE TRANS'VAALP I~~~~~ I OPINION ON LATEST PRIOPOSALS.,' THE iDYNAUNITE MONOPOLY. (PRE3s AssoCIATION FOREIGN SPECIAL,) Pretoria, Thursday. The Volksraad had another secret sesssicn this forenoon. It is believed that the dyna- mite concession was still the subject of dis- cussion. The Government asks for authority to deal with the company on the basis of ex- propriation and compensation, but a ...

... lie %bertmvltjltlit UfITIRP 0v 1eF--B~nAT) sllR1tT.r ABlUElrR IN. LON )ON to E'JO-5 NEAV BRIlDGP, q~ 1;l-.R1E1 B.C. .LI:GlAMS- AFI~ifl.I. (I(JURNAL, ABIU)F.LN. ABERDE1F'N, MONDAY, JULY17,_1899. D~~~~ - - - - - -I NEWS SUMMAIRY. The freedom of the city if Newcastle s on Raturday conferred on Lord XVolselev. INe 1astle joiners' strike hlis ended in the Isastere granting tile advance of 4d per ...

... DEHflR DISTRICl' PYUBLIC LANTH{ OOMMITTEE. ! A meeting of the Public Health Standing Com- mittee of Deer District was held in the inn, Maud, on Saturday-Mr Watt, Watermill, presid- ing. Several nuisances in the Fraserburgh, Strichen, and Longside districts were intimated by Mr Simpson, Sanitary inspector, and special notices were ordered to be sent to the perpetrators of these, Ll)NMAY S1HOOL ...

... ILAASIEO AND TIHE PHRDNOLOGIST. _I I HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A CRICKETER. Lasker is all surprises. He commenced cracking chess-nuts (says a writer in the 'Pail Afall Gazette ') at the age of 12, though his father's intee.5t in the game was confined to scanning his son's scoring sheets. But the greatest surprise was yet to come. We talked of the diversity of eraniums an:ong the chess- players ...