... 1THE LATE MR. THO%.IAS VALE-\TiNE, IJ. P. { INTERESTING MAu&SONIC PRESENTATIONT. An interesting ceremony took place in the baln- queting chamber of thle 3Masonic Hall, Arthur Snuare, on the evening of the 9th inst.. when a numerous company assemrbled to Wiloess the un- veiling and presentation of a life-sized portrait in oils of the late Mr. Thomas Valent:ile, J.P., R.W. Provincial Deputy ...

... The following appeared il our litesz e, j vyestorday:- HE TRANSVAAL. BOERS GETTING OUT OF HAND. A GENTLEMAN KICKED TO DEA'i'T PIETERMAJ{TZ1B'ROl t:, The Boer camp at Sandspruit. is il!t r muddle, wal so was the commiissanarse. Boer army service, it appears. las is . muismanaged. and the Boers are loid grumbling. Many of them. savsth. - 1-.- Post's correspondent. are laying L', ; General ...

... COUNTY ARMAGH ASYLUMf MaAID. Yesterday the monthly meeting was held, under the presidency of Mr. James Orr, D.L., the other members of committee present being-Messrs. H. B. Armstrong, D.L.; W. J. Best, Henry Hilkelk, William Simnpson, J.P.; John Compton, James L:onsdale, J.P. ; William White (Lurgan), Michael Garvey J. JM.'Caffrey, J.P. ; Philip Lavery, J.P. ; Michael Smyth, J.;P, W. J. Allen, ...

... BALLYCASTLE. A meeting of this council was held on the 7th inst.-Mr. Joseph P. O'Kane, J.P. 4chairman), presiding. The chairman brought under the notice of the council the action of the county council on the 3rd in reference to main roads. The county council's declaration was only now being published, and the point arose was the county not too late, as this publication, according to the act, ...

... The opening meeting of the session of this so- ciety wvas held in the clubrooms, ia-ho Museum, Col- lege Square, on the evening of the 9th inst. The president (Mr. W. E. Willia.ness. wrho wan in the chair, expressed the pleasure it gave him to meet the mn-mbers of the society at the opening of the winter season, and he welcomed the menmbe-s of the Camera Club, who had accepted the society's ...

... PRESBYTERIAN CH(IRCI{ GUILD. COUNCIL MEETING. te: A council meeting of the Presbyterian Church I Guild was hell at eleven o'clock yesterday morning in the schoolroom of Mlay Street Presbyterian n Church. 'Mr. Robert Anderson, J.P., presided, at and there was a fair attendance. After devotional exercisesn The Chairman, who was received with applause, in said he understood the Guild had been ...

... J 38, LOWFER ORMOND QUAY, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and Countess Cadogan will return to the Viceregal Lodge at the end of the month. There are at present 536 cases of infectious disease under treatment in the hospitals of Dublin. The number of cases of typhoid is 313, no less than 63 being admitted last week. There were 32 deaths from measles registered. A trial ...

... WOODVALE PRESBYTERIAN CHU |ORI OPENIN'G SERVICES. The new and handsome Presbyterian Church, Woodvale Road, of which Rev. John Millikets is the respected minister, -was yesterday dedicated to the worship of God by special services, Rev. D. A. Taylor, MA.A., Moderator of the General As- sembly, being the preacher. 'The new church oc- cupies an excellent and commanding position at the junction of ...

... (ESTABLISHED ANNIO 1737.) Btfm> M BELFAST. : TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1899. Twelve persons were injured in a railway collision at Ober-Lahnstein on the 8th inst. The Viceroy of India reports that there is no material improvement in the crop prospects. During a typhoon on the 7th inst. a train was blown into a river near Utsunomiya, six persons being killed. The German liner Kaiser Friedrich ...

... LADIES' COLLEGIATE SEBOOL, ROSETTA PARK. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES BY LADY ARTHUR HILL. The annual distribution of prizes in connection with this successful school, which is conducted by the Misses Gaiway, took place yesterday afternoon in the schoolroom, Wiaiynnstay, Rosetta Park, in the presence of a numerous. company of parents and friends of the pupils. Rev. R. J. Lynd, D.D., presided, and he ...

... ? FORE10 INTELUANCE. I I I . I- - - -- - 1 I BRUTES'S TELEGRAMS. LIVELY SCENE AT A BULL FIGHT. EIGHT PERSONKS INJURID. PARIS, Sunday. The bull fight postponed from the 1st inst. wa's held at Idaghein, in the environs of Paris, to-day, but the first bull hod no sooner entered when he rushed for the barrier, cleared -it, end alighted among the spectators, injuring eight of them. It, then got out ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE REOTER'S TEL.EGRAMS. THLE DREYFUS AFFAIR. REPORTED DUEL IN PARIS. PARIS, Friday. A reporter of the Iintransilgeant says thiat' while he was, seeing a friend off by the Orient ex- press last evening he saw. Colonel Schneider, Aus- trian Military Atteeh6, carried in on a stretched- and carefully placed in the train. Blood was -low- lug freey froi -apparently, a s1erious ...