... 1 I3C 4.BT. SI'tOXD AYrS MflYINCL - Tlhe High Court olusticiary ie-timed in Aber- deeo C -t-rthotts' x-nsterd.' morrn.ow 'o dispo'e oit th tolwu!ih and iast case 6n the caettdar. Lord _M'Lren took his es-e.t onl the bench at hailfpas -.en. Mr Alexm:tlder Localgnt AIhLure |a3 acdvocatrc-deo)ue, a,.C!R`ed br Mr Cowatn. v-hle tIf- Gear Ae . Si ih aeted as clerk of cantrt. Tee tibiec were tlto adr ...

... I I APPOINTMENT Or PROCURATOR- FISCAL. A meeting of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Aberdeen was held in. tihe Sheriff 1Courthouse, Aberdeen, yesterday forenoon for the purpose of appointing a procurator-fiscal as euc- ce.sor to the lstae Mr George Cadenhead. There f wa, a large attendance, and, on th motion ofi Uar James Murray of North Inveramsay, Mr I i Gordon of Newton was ...

... BOY FOUND DEAD IN A CORNS CHEST. The Aberdeon counby police authori- ties have received inforinaittion of an extraordinary oceurrence at the farm of Balnacraig, near Aboyne. It appears that some time ago a boy named Ciarles William Thomson, aged 12& years, went to the farm, partly for the purpose of recruiting his health and to give such assistanee in the farm work as he was able to accomplish ...

... Zbe coftt. Osborne, Saturday. The Queen drove out vesterdayv afernoon, attended bv the Duchess of Roxburghe and the Rloil. Evelyn Moore. Captain Adair, H.M.S. Auustralia, and' Commander Purefoy, HE.M.Y. Victoria and Albert, hfacd the honour of dining wth l;Her Mlajesty and the Royal family last evening. The Queen Nvent out .zhis morning, accom- panied by HEler Roval Highness Priocess Henry of ...

... ABERDEEN POLICO OCO1RT. (Thursday-Before Baillie Taylor.) The Baillie on the Licensing Laws.-A licensed grooer was charged with having on him premisces sold w~htsky to a boy 12 years of ae contrary to the conditions of his certificate. Ac- cused pleaded not guilty. The boy, in the course of his evidence, sai he was at school, and Wuas in the habit of selling newspapers. On 2bth Deoember he ...

... I CRIMINAL STATISTICS FOR MORAYSHIRE FOR 1899. Mr J. B. Mair, chief conskzble of dMoryehire, in his report, just issued, for the year ended Mest December last, says: -There has been a deareaie of crimm. as well as of persos apprehended or cited, during the year, and this is sll the more -oteworthy wxhen it is found staet the decrease is general. 1168 Crimes and offenoea were reported or made ...

... I tbe d *Court. I Vioeregal Lotlge, Duiblin, Tuesday. The Queen went out. yesterday mornaiad, attended by the Countess of Antrim. Princess Christian of Scfileswig-Holstein 1 laid the fo deoartion stone of tbe City of Dub- Iin Hospital Nursing Horme ini Baggot Street vesterdav. On arri'val Her Royal HiZhness, Who was attended by thie Counres-. of Arrmn and Colonel Lord Wiiliam Coeil. was ...

... A YEAR'S CRIME IN PETERAHID. I 'lhe police statistiie for the year 1899.for Peter- held are now made up. Thie fqgurqs showv that 273 persons-236 niales and 37 feiualese-vere cited or apprehended during the year oil socme chlargeo or another. Of these. 269 qiere disposed of in Peterhead, the renlainitg four being eent before ihe sheriff in Aberdeen. Bail mas either lodged or the sroeceedinps ...

... A DOCT-6k.S :DIVORCE CASE .CEARGE AGAINST A cLErGY- Tn the Court or Session. on Thursday at Edin'burgh -proof.. was _heard, beiore Lord Lonv, in an a hctio of' divoere raised by Edwin James Wenyon bachelor1 of medicine, and member of the Royal Society of Surgeons, England,.. sonmetime .residing at PIe ister, on the island of Snnday, Orney, there- after at Woolstanten, Stoke-on-Trent' and tem- ...

... H- ,& BUKfzGHER'S DIARY. j1C:,r[TENTGr AAC REPORTED KILLED. rjgg ASsOCA'TIO WARt SP;OAM) Kroonstad, November 17th. ,generljiy believed that General De Wet 'step are between here and the Paal, .e of the railway. e De Liqle junS occupied Rhenostei? Eop 'e~ ° ;nrg entered the Lace Diantond k did no damage, merely looting 'i-tecrt of the. manager. and staif. ¢el-a.tIOnf Uf prisoners that the ...

... THE DOVER CAN5TEEN SCANDAL. TRIAL OF MASTER-GUNNER ACHESON. 4A general court-martial assembled at Dover yesterday for trial of Third Class 2aster-Gunner W. H. Acheson, Royal Garrison Artillery, on a charge of having wilfully given false evidence in support of the prosecution of Lieutenant A'Beckett. who was recently acquitted of a charge of stealing money from canteen funds, Colonel Eelly, ...

... I I i I hear it stated that, owing to-6bjections put forward by Colonel Mathias and other military men, the Duthie Park site may not, after all, be hchsen. for the erection of the memorial to the Gordon Hiehlanders Ywho fell during the Indian Frontier campaign. That there should be opposi- tion to the resolution of the Link sand Parks Committee of the Town Council is not a. matter for surprise ...