... DISTRICT NEWS, ABOYNE. Ai1ea to Shepherds' Moeting. -The Al)boVno Lodg6 vi Ancient Shepi-erds bield tbeir aUoltial general inceting in the hall on Tusldai .*velll, T'reasurer lrcorni.r Shoend, of tie [i-i et ]Eaec~u. tive, was prseiiot anid qave an addre-s.. Toe lodge resoived to give '35 fronm ito fund, to tie fund for Those Left Bielhind' Biother Olement Alleis waa presented sviih an -tIoete ...

... I I~- LMR ALFPRBD ACSTTN'S POFNI TO ARMS ! Sir,-You published on Saturday two stanzas of fir Alfred Austin's new poem. quoted from the Daily Telegraph. I like the ring of it, but not one of his rhymes, which runs thus: - From English hamlet, Iish hill, W1elslh hearths, and Scottish byres, They throng to show that they are still Sons worthy of their sires. Byres ! Is it conie to this ? Is ...

... ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY SALE * OF WORN. On Slturday .he annoal saie of worii; c-,Pe Infrmary Work Pary -v o ,ened .I hrie Dal ronm of the Musie 11all bVlliii l D: l)r- L qaharon, M.P. for West %Abnrdeen !e Allardyee, chairman of t!0 - sfirmarv 6'rcetor . presided, and :mong those prieenr tere:- .0. It. 1- Ii A er, West Par-ish luurchc Dr tGledI, MAr Thomas Kyd, Northern As-uianEo'O-pa!Y: *.ir ...

... I- THE CAPE SERVIOC Launch of a Union Liner at Belfast (PROM oUR SPECIAL COBRMsE l5T.) Belfast, December 2L This forenoon Messm Harland & Wolff launched the Saxon, a twin-screw steamer of 12,910 tons gross, which they have built for the mail service of the Union Company, When completed the ; vessel will be the largest not only in the Cape service, but in any British colonial servio. i and in ...

... DEATH OF MR D, L. MOODY. New York, Friday. : The death has occurred at East North- field, Massachusetts, of the well-known evangelist, Mr MNfoody, who had been in failing health for sone timle. Mr Dwight Lyman Moody was bdfin at Nori thfield, Massachusetts, oc February i, 183s. The first money he ever.earined was mi the way of reward for tenuldn cows, and the -renuneration was at the rate of ...

... NEO-PURITAN'S -AND NATIONAL CRISES. ThFom a scene of the most uninterrupted re- tireueiit woe bzlen passed at once into a state of constant engagenment. Not that our soc'ety i mitch mnltiplied; the addition of an individuai c kas made all this difference. Lady Austen and f i-e pass our days alternoately at each othe fl s ,rhdfetz. In the morning I walk with one ti or other of the ladies, awd ...

... LET ERS TO THE EDITOR.' THE WAR IN THE TRANSVAALT 173' St Vincent Street, jS Sir-One Glasgow, December 20, 1o. ?? is iot greatly surprised that a poli- tician like Sir Wilfrid Lawson should indulge in such weak rhetoric and nurposeless erticism S as characterised his address at Carlisle last week, des but I confess to a feeling of misgiving that an Sox ?? Minister of the rank and experience ...

... HERALD OFFICT, 6.30 A.M. POSfITION AT MIOD . 1DER (T'rlEs TELEGRAM. ) f Alodder River, December 18, 10.20 a.mn. Ie News Comes from Jacobsdal that Kuruman is g 1till held by a s-mall force of police, despite the, t renewed exertions of the Boers. , At Mlafeking also it appears the besiegers have i! 5uffered severely, and the siege is weakening. i Rumours credit the Free Staters with the inten- ...

... CaR3IST-21S. GLASGOWI P OT OFFICE. The first deliey sen' ant this morning wl probably be the Lsaviest in the history of the? Glasgow Post Office. For a good rnany years the Christmas traffic at etdch reu-nence'of the season has shown a mnarked advance not onlv in the quantity, but in the chiatcer and variety of matter fak1ing to be dealt with by the poutad authoritoi.s Even while the ...

... WEATHiER HEPCRT ANO FRiECASTS. i Metoorlogical Office, eeoud y, S.30 pnrn. At G pim. the pressure wvaz highest (30'0 incoes arid moze to 30C0 inches) over Sweden and ILap- land, 2U2 inches and manre in the south of Portugal, and exceeding 30 0 inches all over the BLay of Uise;.y and the wetst of France; lowest (29 4 inches to 2950 inches) over the Sietland Isles arid the norihl uf Scotland, ...

... iS NWOCNDED AND MISSING AT COLENSO. COL. PLUMIVER INVADING' TRANS VAAL. LORD METHUEN AND COM- MANDER CRONJE. LORDS ERROLL AND SEITRINQTON' FOR THE FRONT. A further list of casualties-the wounded- and missing-at the battle of Colenso was issued last night. At 11.30 the War Office posted a notice to the effect that no further news would be issued. The publication of the remaining details of the ...

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