... GUMNIERCIAL SOUTH AFRICA. INTEEDSTING UNITED STATElS It is very curious to note (writes a correspondent of the ecslth nl)how well up-to-date! n are most of the consular reports issued at Wash. ingtois. dust at the.inomest when all eyes are turned on Soanh Africa a, very iull report on the cononercial de crpm)emnt of that country comes -ito hand and it is ilc result of in!tructioln to the o ...

... tABERDEEN- SRTEI LINER Lo~yv. DRIVEN ON THE ROCUs , SPRONSAY. er ti, be TWO MEN DROWNrED U, On Satarday forenoon astelegal,7 ne here stating ithat. a syeawfer Was ~aellclva Ottin SwVa1f Rothiesholm, 8-r*. s an ti, evening, another message xva0 resetl a li- - Vessel flying signl fd th vessel, Which was later isiowsn tu lt DIewdrop, of Aberdeen with. e; 1 , mr told, went isJiOie on risday ii, ...

... 'ITHOSEt LEFT BEhi SND. I JOURNAL AND EXPRESS FUND, The recall of so many reservists to the colours, for active service in South Africa, has left in every part of the country families unprovided for, and a heavy strain will fall, and has already fallen, on the funds of the Soldiers and Sailors' Families Assoiation, which gives assistance in such cases. This is particularly the case in ...

... LIEUTENANT C. G. MONRO-RILLED. ...

... A - A NEW COLLEGE FOR WOMEN IX i- CANADA. :: PRINCELY GIFT BY LORD STRAT!HbONA. L The Qceen new;paper of Saturday contains an account of a new college for women which Lord Strasthcona and Mount Royal has gifted-to Qvnada. Our contemporary say-s:- One, million one hundred. and fifty thousand dollars, (.i230,006)-such has been the munificent donation of Lord Strathcona to tohe caurs of the ...

... I] - SERIOUS DISASTER TO THE BRITISH. DEFEAT AND SURRENDER 2000 MEN AND {2 OFFICERS PRISONERS. RECEPTION OF NEWS IN THE COUNTRY GENERAL BULLER AT THE CAPE. MORE REINFORCEMENTS ORDERED OUT. Unquestionably the gravest news from South Africa since the outbreak of the war was received yesterday morning, when a tele- graphic despatch reached the War Office from General Sir.Georoe White reporting a ...

... N~EW& EN Mir AMiher, M,!P., lent Aberdeen on, unday after- noop by the 3.30 East-Coast traiin for London. Mr A. W. Mair, M.A., Aberdeen, has just been elected to a Fe~lowshp, in.- Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. , Mr Hugh M'Leiinan, advocate, Aberdeen, has become proprietor of the estate of SpVinghill, which belonged to the late Mr James Matthews. The purchase price was £10,50D. The ...

... ATEACKED BY A BIG FORCE OF BOEERS. Durban, Sunday. Thei following is an official account of thze .capture of the squadron of cavalry after the battle of Glsncoe, as narrated by Capraii! Hardy, R.A. After the battle three squad- Ions of the 18th Hussars, with one Maxim, a icopap~ny of Dublin Fusiliers, a section of the ~6'thi'1ffles and Mouine'd In1fantry '(Calorel MoelUer tomniaandizng) keapl ...

... TI I . itzrd S - 20b Vattalion. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)' Fort George, 29th October, 1899. THE PIROVISIONAL BATTALION. Owing to the War Office order that all men proceeding to South Africa with Sir Redvers Belier's Army Corps should be 20 years of age and have at least 12 months' service, a large number of men have been left behind by all the units concerned. The 2nd Battalion of Ours, ...

... AGRICU LTURAL N *WS. ,. ~r _ . A :r AiEFAIRS IN THE IEWS. I 9 POTATO S.PRAYLNG EXPERLMI1KNTS. A special meeting of the Lewis District Com- mittee has been heid at Steornoway for the pur- pose of conferring with 'Mlr Forsy tii, convener of Y the Agricuitural Lepartment ot the Congesueu > Districts Board, with regard to potato spraying as a preventaauve of disease. Mr Forsyn, who, prior to the ...

... SOME IMIPRESSIONS Or JAPAN. e Mr Alexander Forbes, Market Street, Aber- . aeen, has received an interesting letter from a a friend, MAr John H. Diion; who is at present 'taying in Japan, in which that gentleman gives an account of his impressions of Egypt. China, r and Japan. in the course of his letter Mr Dixon remarks that Egypt, judging from Port Said, is r a sadly hackneyed land. I do not ...

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