... INTERESTING DECISION TO FRIENDLY SOCIATLs. A question of interest to friendly societies has retently formed the-subject of protracted arbitra- tion proceedings, and has now been settled. S3everal years ago thle British Order of Free Gar- deners, at their annual movable delegation, re- sOlved that the raLeNs of contribution payable by members should be increased from lest January, 1898. ander ...

... [ AMEIiCAN COMMERCIAL PRICES. NEW YORK STOCKj MARKET. I Tosesnt. A moderate profit taking carried the majority of active stocks lower early in the se.;sion, but the decline was mostly recovered in the afternoou, when some fresh covering orders arrived. Atchison issues were themostnoteworthy features. On foreign buy-mg thereof Atchison Pref. torlched the record. The market closed dulll, b'ut ...

... FItUJRTHER WAR DESPATCHES, LORD METHUEN'S REPORT ON MAGERSFONTEIN. LORD ROBERTS CRXTIOISES GEN-RAL GATACRE.: London, Friday evening. - Further official despatches were i6sued to-night dealing with the engag6Amenii nt Magersfontein and Stormberg. Lord-Retjts, in enclosintg to the Secretary of State fr. WVar the despatch which he saya Lieut.-General Lord Methuen has: prepared on the action at ...

... FATAL ACQIDENTS L{UILRIES NL ABERDEEN. No fewer dhan, seven inquiries were held before Sheriff Burnet and juries in Aberdern Sheriff Courthouse yesterday into the cir- eurstarenes attending accidental Statrh nU the city and the county. Mr Wil son. pT curau)r- fiscal, conducted the inquiries. whieh were heL'd under the Fatal Accidents Inquiry (Scotland) Act. QIJARRYMAN KILLED AT W4)OD.SIDE. The ...

... M.KAGISGTRATES' DECISION REVERSED. The Burgh Confirmation Licensing Court was held on Saturday in the Police Court. Baillie Lyon I presided, and there were on the bench Baillie Henderson, Baille Taylor, and Messrs Thomas Ogilvie, David M'Harcly, and G. M. Cook, justices of the peace. BRIDGE STREET LICENCE RDFUSED. THE BAR AND THE BENCH. Edward Bailio, wai:ter, 14 Marywell Street, applied for ...

... TtER1IIILE OUTRAGE ATI SEIA1 .I A SfTI I''p CIEW ATTAC K' ED. sE\ EN PEHSC)NS 3 KILLED. FIi VE i.NI 1'1EED). (PrA \v'ttCIATION FoICtyoN SPPiCCAL.) sCUhLIC't, Tllu''iltratlao. A t- ii: i' r ltCt : ila, b I- Oil C It)ard I t !tC t' Itnli Quit' -i ,I .it-':ltl-i di.ti tt ) S . iIt I MCi- I-C t 'll -v --:; -A'!gl -e *i~~,l Ct'.dll' tS t'tli. J' Il' I'aj,';.:i, anld 1);:.,!-d QV'lClSil~l:tl bt1. ...

... . SETENCE ON ACCUSED. Charles Kennedy, boilermaker, was cearged at the sitting of the High.Court of Justoisiy at Dundee yesterday - the Lord Justice Clerk on the bench-with having on 16th or 17th December, 1899, in his boupe in Hospital Wynd, 1 Dundee, assauled Jessie Cowan Stevenson or - Kennedy. his wife, with a pdker. and murdered ber. Accused tendered a plea of guilty of eut- pable ...

... SCEN.E N THE COURT OF SESMON. 1 1~ ~ , - In Fthe Bl-li Cha nber oi the Court of Session yeIserda B iLrd Pearson had oefore him a note oi eusponsitn at the instance of Miss Matilda' Hunter, 73 Oxford Drive, Keivxinside, Glasgow, of a charge to pay £Li00, foiiowaing on a verdict obtained tb M4rs Kate Ntsbet or Snodgrass. wife of and residing with James &Snudgraes, 15 tahandon Plce, Edrnburgia, ...

... EAST ABERD EENSHIRE FAR.AifAS' AISSOCIAT1TON. REPORT ON MASTEIR AND SERVANT 'CA2LSBS, The ninth annual meeting of tjio East Aber- deenshire Farmers' Association was held at Mauid last week-Mr W. Ainslie, Taitzwell, presiding. The clerk, MIr Robert Gray, solieitor, Peter- head, handed in the report for the. past year. The report showed that the year had been one of unusuald activity. The ...

... TRE COAL CONTRACT CASE ini in re( ci, al id, al ii di tae thb a to, in, th; 102 th- fth iol as tic4 ixt rik sr1 .ge tis lef Lai bin axt5 h i. is El- 0I 01 ill Eal -ti nsa at ly, '0- es ug it. Ig i t es xl tc at 5,- Ses 0- id to at to sr le Is in 0- irI d C. k If JDGNMENT' FOR- JTHE NORTHM.ERN. CO-OPE RATIVE COMPANY. ' o f In the Cour~t Pf *4=o_ on 93aturaY. Lord yr- yflachy gave. jedgpnent. in ...

... [SECOND EDITION] I I 6 Nuw BumcsG STREET, LoIO, AREDREN JOURNAL OPFICE, WEDNESDAY MORuNING, 5.30. (BY SPECIAL WIRE.) HARD FIGHTING AT RENSBURG. ENEMY LOSING HEAVILY. BOERS WORKING ROUND NAAIAWPOORT. (DAILY Man TELEGBAn.) Rensburg, Monday, 11.25 a.m. The Boers, who have been reinforced from Stormberg, are very active on our flanks, and attempted to stop convoys to Shi.ersfotei. yesterday, but ...

... -IAOTON BY A RETI'R ID R\OSS-SHIRE MAJOR. Yesterday. in the Qu toen'. Rench Division of thi Higii C;.irt, Londue, Welore Mr Justieo Lao vanclle land a spttia1 jtlr, the case of Major Randall Jackson ov Swordaie, Rs.,-,nire. the Ilida.tnaSi Intentiiozis Deeloptacut Cotopany va~s he ?arl. Mr -MCall, Q.C., and Mr 0 Pirnnan appeared or the 1.cIintift, a t! Mr. TI'ilda! Arkinison, QC_ and 2-lr ...