... CHRISTMAS. CHRISTMAS and NEW-I EAR CARDS are in great variety for the Season at JAMES ANDERSON'S, The Bridge. PACKETS of 12 Beautiful Folding Cards at 6d, also 4d, 3d, 2d, and Id. BOXES with 8 and 9 Folding Cards, with Envelopes to match, at 6d and COMIC ...

... tielci battery from the Honourable Artillery Compnny. Earl they has sent to the press a copy of a letter be addressed on Christmas Day to Lord Lansdowne, conveying the intimation that Colonel Watts, Ist Northumberland Volunteer Artillery, vdkced a battery ...

... standard be not taught in Scapa School after this year's inspection. PRESENTATION TO A FORMER ORKNEY MINISTER IN NEW ZEALAND.—The Bush Advocate (a New Zealand newspaper) contains the following account of a presentation to the Rev. A. Grant, formerly minister ...

... Gossamer paid off from active service at Messmer on Friday. Thirtyeight thousand poets& are to be spat on bee in supplying new engines and new water-tube boilers. Aso Thee Na cave i cr.--The lawyer asked the witness if an incident previously alluded to wasn't ...

... Magnusson and William Morris. New edition. London : Longman*, Green 1 Co. Tate Sfoity or NJAL. From the Icelandic of the \jabs Sap by the late Sir I Imorge Webbe D.C.L. London : Grant Richards. The :•ceent pithlieatiiin of new editions of the late Mr %Valiant ...

... Shipping Reports. (Vessels commanded by or haring Natires of the County on board.) Armenia, s. at London from Calcutta, Dec. 2. Asia, a. left Port Said for London, Nov. 29. Australia, s, from Calcutta for Genoa, passed Perim, Nov. 27. Banffshire, at Gravesend ...

... Primrose, 11,11, so dreadful was the gale. The wrecked vessel betrsiged to the well-known Hill Line, and was built at Liverpool in 1886. Ner registered to tinge was 23:0. The loss of lit. was greater than first reported. Chief Boatman Finch, or the lifeboat, ...

... CHRISTMAS PRESENT THE BEST NEW YEAR'S GIFT, WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT A MELODEON GOOD News. HAPPY HOURS FOR ALL Orkney Herald. AN UNPARALLELED OFFER. •• MUSIC FOR THE FIRESIDE. OUR GRAND PRIZE MEDAL GEM MELODEON. 6s 9n. 6s 90.' With Two Seta of Broad Reeds ...

... favourite prescription he will send free to all sufferers. Address : Dr Brown, The Homeland, Cavendish Bora. Bulimia, London, S.W. General News. LORD ROBLRTS'S LUCKY DAY.—Lord Roberts is inclined to be superstitious. He is a firm believer in a lucky day. ...

... to be opened on Thursday next week by the King in person The last occasion on which the Sovereign opened Parliament was in 1886. It is fitting that in the first Parliamentary session of his reign the King should perform this ceremony. His speech, of course ...

... THE ORKNEY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1901. District News• such articles as books, knives, scissors, boxes of pencils, paint boxes, &c. Thereafter an exhibition of magic lantern views was given. The balance of STROSINICSS - ChOLNEY NATrItAL IiatTORY ...

... to free indulgence. THE ROYAL TOUR. Lloyd's agent at Durban states H.M.S. Ophis arrived there today (Tuesday). EXECUTI N IN LONDON. Ernest Walter Wickham (29), clerk. was executea this (Tuesday) morning at Wandsworth Prison lot the murder of Amy Eugenie ...