... I| THE VOLKSRAAD AND THSE GRONDWET. REPRE SENITATION OF GOLDFIELDS. (Enss AssocTmioN FOREIGN SPECIAL.) Pretoria, Thursday. The Volksraad has passed the new article in the Grondwet reorganising the system of government, so that the Executive Couicil, augmented by two members, shall form the Cabinet, each inember being responsible for one or two public Departments, the Presi- dentand the members ...

... I APPOINTMENT OF EX-LORD PROVOST WEARNS. The Queen has been pleased, on the recommendatioln of the Secretary for Scot- land, to appoint Mr Daniel Mearns, ex-Lord Provost of Aberdeen, to the vacancy on the Scottish Fishery Board occasioned by the death of Mr Archibald Jameson. There were a number of candidates for the representation from the principal centres of the fishing industry in ...

... ICOMPANY MEETINGS, RE PORTS, &O. ABERDEE0N COMBWOtRKS COY., LTD. 1FIRST GENER1AL IEOM1lNU. The first general or statutory ineeting of the Aberdeen Combwarks Company, Limited, wIs held in the Union Club Buildings yesterday-Sir DIavid Stewart presiding. There was a good at- tendance. Mr James Donald, the secretary, hav- ing read the notice calling the meeting, 'The Chairman said this wvas a ...

... .ft e,? f-,- - 0 P'.. ? %-. q - lot I$attalftn. tFtOU OVs CORBESPO0NDENT.) Cairo, 22nd July. PROMOTION EXAMINATION. At the examination held at Cairo in. May, in subjects (C to G) for promotion, the under- 'mentioned were successful:-Captain F. A. Ntiacfarlan. for promotion to the rank of major; Captain N. G. Cameron, Lieutenant G. C. Sorel- Cameron, Lieutenant A. D. Nicholson, Lieu- tenant R. ...

... WllmD TO FLY. A MILL GIRL'S QUEER NOTION. A gI who used to work as i winder at East- field Mills near Eialifai, has, been the subject of one of the most remarkable delusions, If we mav believe an article in the Halifax Guardian,' which gives an adeount of the. affair, with the girls name and addreiS-Edith Wilkinson, Mill View, Lumbrok, Shelf (i place near Haihfax). Here is her account of ...

... THE COMPENSASTION _it A YEAR'S WORPMI&. When the Compensation Act Was first lnotste the -Iaily News, it will he renaleiriboed, depr's. cated the propoees lnew departure in legislatlio on the ground tlhat universal cnnspenl tieso meant general inisurance of risks, and gencral.inarann of risks meant increasing ic'cidniuli. hv relazojiq the special incentives to carefuiliess 'flui, eor closion ...

... j HIGNHLANTD BIA'RY DIsP PERTHSHIRE LAM:DS IN COURT. DECISION IN FAVOUR OF SIR ROBERT IE'NZIrES. Sheriff-Prinsipal Jameson has now issued his judgment in the appeal at the instance of the Duke of Atholl against the decision of Sheriff Grahame, its which the Sheriff-Substitute granted declarastor that the eastern half of Corrie Essan, in the Barony of Rannoch, belonged to Sir Robert Menzies, ...

... STEAM FISITING VESSET.S TN; ENCGLA ND. The 13t:i annual report On sea fi.htries in En rghinl and \\ ales (beih g for the year 1893), ! hi h wsa pubhlished esterday, cont ains some re- wari., (Ix itelIltl fiShill, ITSsdls. Th( ineltiease (it steamin fi-hin g vesie:s, c peciially Ol tile ea-it C :isi, it stater, col-tilllrii- ti bel tile h ief feature if tile fishiiig iniduistry. The rtt ...

... r I ~ I : - S r' BUCHIAN U.P. PRESBYTIDRY. A meeting of the Buchaan U.P. Presby.tery was held at Maud yesterday-Rov. J. Wylie, Peter- i head, presiding. ;sRev. Robert James, a, member of Edinburgh 1 Presbyteryy now on deputy work at Fraserburgh, who was present, was welcomed by the Presby- - tery, and made a corresponding member. r EXPRESSION OF SY.MPATHY. It was sesolved to incorporate in the ...

... I HOUSE OF LORDS-WEDNESDAT., The House of Lords met at 11.30 to-day, when the Appropriation Bill was received fromn the Commons, and, on the motion of Earl Walde, grave, passed through all its stages. The sitting was then suspended until two o'clock. The only peers present were the Lord hs Chancellor, the Bishop of Liohfield, Earl Walde- grave, and Lord Churchill. )i1 ROYAL ASSENT. in The ...

... IPREMIAY PARISH HCURCi IBAZAARS. SPEECH BY MR, (C. E. N. LETH-HAY OF LEITH-RALL. Yesterday a twvo-clay biaizaar organiised by the cougi-egatiors of the Preinuay Parish Church was ojipeied in l'rsouliay Public School by Nir Charles Ls. N. Loith-HIay of Leithi-hall. The large com- palny 1Jresens inoluded Mrs Hurst, Leith-Hall; Colonel Smith, lIIsCI; MAlr alnt Mlrs Bearton, Station Hotel, iisch; ...

... 1 HOUSE OF LORDS-MIONDAY. TPhe Vir of M'wl c. it) ito itbseeic, tif oute 1Lord 1i C'alictiio-'l'r, tiok his ccct at cI quarts r psi't folo t Itioh motioit of the EAkRL oif MORLEY. a, di ot I Iti I pri v ti bhuhI., ii c v o,t 11i dClred atid I I ito' C-nititoti' antiewticuitttt to the( ILi iolciitrdic' 'I.itiv's Cotiittinua'o' 1iii. teo P'tiblic' Wcot-kc LualC 'i~i mt ti- tile~ Pti'c~lsi a tid ...