... A DOMINION ASHORE. LINER I LIKELY TO BECOME A TOTAL WRECK. I SAFETY OF THE PASSENGERS. A Reuter's telegram, dated New York, Thurs- day, ?? overdue liner Scotsman, which leat Liverpool on the 14th inst., bound for Montrzal. is stranded in the Straits of Belle Isle. Telegraphing under yesterday's date, Reut-r's MN.ontreal correspondent ?? steamer %mot- fort passed Anticosta this morning with 250 ...

... I FOREIGN ITELLGIG@NCE9 BRUTES'S TELEGSA.8. DISTURBANCES IN INDIA. SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED. BO BAYI, Tuesday. Several persons have been killed in a serious disturbance in Panch Mahals. The Blils and other turbulent tribes are giving trouble, and troops have been sent from Baroda. TilE PLAGUE. LORENZO MARQUEZ, Tuesday. The report that a case of biubonic .plague had occurred at Maraqueene is ...

... IRIISH VERSUS SCOICH WHISKY. A considerable amount of discussion has taken place lately in the public Press as to the compara- tive merits of Irish and Scotch whiskies, and the cause of the increasing favour of the latter over that of the former in the English consumption. The reasons mainly advanced for this have been-(I) the enterprise with which the Scotch firms have pushed their various ...

... AMiERICAN OPINIONS ON THE OCEAN IC. INTERVIEW WITH THE RIGHT HONOUR- ABLE W. J. PIRRIE, J.P. QENS.=WN, S AY-Our latest New York exchanges just to hanid state With Old Glory blown straight from her fore, truck, her house flag, that of the White Starline, flapping from her main, her royal mail penbiint'from'he}r mizzen truck, the blue flafg of 'the RoyaY Naval Reserve from her taff- rail, and ...

... The members of this society had their annual trip into the apple country on the 13th inst. Leaving the Great Northern Railway Terminus at 9-45 a.m. they steamed quickly and luxuriously to Portadowa, where they were provided with an excellent turn-out by Mr. James Grew, of the hotel. Driving along the Lougligall Road they almost immediately plunged into the land of orchards, trim hawthorn ...

... I 38, LOWER ORMOND QUAY, THURSDAY NIGHT. The Giasnevin murder. The remains of Mr. Childs, the old gentleman who was so mysteriously murdered at his residence in Glasnevin on Satur- day night, were interred to-day in the cemetery of Mount Jerome. MTe funeral was not a large one, bet as the cortege started from 5, Bengal Terrace, Glasnevin, the roadway was densely thronged by a curious crowd. It ...

... ?Oljl 101-DOIN LUTIS. BY 0aso FlVATK Wthe . BZLFAsT NEws-LETE OVex 4355. Smi3D, W.C., F=DAY NMv. The Certainty of War. '-War certain t was the prediction of nica r every person cue met this afternoon, although on this occasion the Cabbiet Council did not take the -representatives of the Press into their confidence as to the result of to-day's deliberations. It was stated that President ...

... COUNTY BOT1OUGH OF BEIAST. A special meeting of the public health committee 'tf fth Comncil of ?? borough was held a;t the Towa Hall mesterday. under the presidency of Aldennran Wifliam lNVCo-rnick, J.P., for the pur- pose of considering an outbreak of ghanders at Bloonafie.d, which had been duly reported by the sanitarv officers. After deliberation, it was de-- cided to appoint a committee to ...

... THE SEAMEN'S STRIKES The Press Association says so confident are tie 1 officials of the Masters' Federation that the strike for any effective purpese has ceased to exist thas they asked their district :ecretaries on the 6dh inst. not to send to the head office the customary daily telegrams unless something exceptional 'appened. Tla result yesterday was that from only six out of 26 districts ...

... PRESENTATION TO HR. JOBERT * i PARRA Al; 4 i The promotion of Mr. Robert Darragh, station- master at Coleraine, to the head office at York Road, as chief of the rates department of the Bel- fast and Northern Counties Railway, was Thei occasion of a striking demonstration of the onod- will of the Coleraine people, who assembled in large numbers in the Town Hall, on the 15th inst., to present Mr ...

... THE LORD MAYOR AND THE BEER DEALERS. TO THE EDITOP. OF THE DBELFAST ?? SIR-I observe an: advertisement of a meeting for Tuesday night to protest against magistrates granting licenses indiscriminatelY at the next court. The object may in the eyes of some be most laudable, but they overshoot the mark in. the means adopted for making the meeting a success. There will, no doubt, be brought for- ...

... THE TRAINSVAAL. BRITISH REPLY DELIVERED. OPINION AT0 PRETRIA. -INCREASED GRAVITY OF THE, SITUATION. EORE TROOPS FOR- THE GAPE. DISLOY AL IR ISHMEN. PsusroanA, -Tuzsnn.-The reply of the British Government has just -been banded ever to the Transva~al G;overnment by the British Agent. It regrets the rejection by-the Transsvaal of the last proposals put forward by Mr. Chainberlarn, less than which ...