... It appears from a Parllamentary return justissued, that during the year ended 31st March, 1899, the expenditure of the several highway authorities In England and Wales, exclusive of loans, nmounted to £2,188,422, and the loans raised by the highway authorities during the year amounted to £29,721, all of which was borrowed by Rural District 0ounoile. The total rateable value of the district of ...

... ha On April 21 Sir Alfred Milner made a speech In of Capetown to the Guild of Loyal Women of South ng Africa. The Cape papers have brought full reports of of this. It should be premised that the guild had handed of over to the Governor an address for presentation to Igs the Queen. Sir Alfred Milner ?? Is hardly re. necessary 'for me to assure you that It will give me ice gzeat pleasure to send ...

... .HEALTH OF BRISTOL AND CLIFON. i e Analysis of births and deaths, registered in Bristol - (Including Clifton) during the weeok ended Saturday, I r April 14, 1900:- j Total births 151 Ratai per IC00 per aninum.,.. .. . . 21.s9 Total deaths ., .. .. . . . . 137 Plate per 1(00 per annum . ?? IAverage death rate of corresponding weaokfo -ten years .. . . 1332 Death rate of orrespondingwcok ...

... Warmley Guardiaus, I At the New Offices. The Warmly Out-rellef Board met in the plate. room of the new office yesterday morning, it v3, the last meeting of the Board as at I constituted. Mr E. F. Nurse presided, andi there; werealso present :-MrJ. J. Thatcher(vice-chairran) the Revs C. Croucher, and P. H. Mi-ihael, B. W. Nurse, H. I. Davis, S. Nichols, J. Mill3rd ,1 i Amos, W. Jefferies, ...

... QUEENS VISIT TO IRELAND.1 Her Majesty's Journey. Arrival at Kingstown.i fll [P [Press Assoclation Telegrams.] Lab- The Royal train, conveying her Majesty and suite, nd reached Llandudno junction at 3.45 a.m. yesterday, dat e and left at 7.45, The ?? dawned brightly after lhe Monday night's rain. A cordon of platelayers and police kept the publi_ ,nd from approaching near the train, but a full ...

... IHEALTH OF BRISTOL AND OLIFTON. I Analysis of births and deaths registered in Bristol (including Clifton) during the week ended Saturdav. March 3-14000:- _ Total births . 177 Rate-per 1000 per annum ?? ?? ?? .,.28.30 Total deaths. .. ?? . . 130 Bate per 100 per annum ?? ?? ?? Z0R Average death rate of eorresponding week for ,ten years di-gwe.koi last year. 204 Death rate of ...

... Tl'HE ASHANTI REVOLT. The Siege of Coomassie. l 'or aot Terrible Experiences. Bo by [Press Association Forelgn Speclal.; ad Reuter's representative t!s hla an Interview withI ad an officer whq Lia5 just arrived from Coomassle. He WPt with the relief force which fought its way from the north into the capital, was besieged with the rd Governor in Coomassle Itself, and was with those who ...

... STUCIKEY'S RESTAURANT. IMPORTANT ACTION AT LAW. OSSORN V. STUCKEY. Yesterday, before Mr Justice Kekewich, In the ?? Division of the High Court of Justice, the hearing of this action, by which the plaintiff claimed specifioperformance of an agreement by the defendant ato sell to him certain freehold and leasehold promises In the city of Bristol, together with a confectioner's business carried ...

... MAJOR GIBBONS'S EXPEDITION. [Press Association Foreign Special.] 3.teuter's representative with Major Gibbons's Trans-African ?? writes as follows under date Chinde, Docember 30 On September 3, Major Gibbons and Captain F, 0. ( uicke left Lialul, where they had been eating their hearts out in enforced idleness for a matter of two months. The delay had been, however, a very tnecessary one, on ...

... EDADLZILWA TALUEGAIS.3 SNINING REPORT, I LONDoN, Tnuns-DAY. EvOINING. The K~affir market opened fairly strong this morninrg, although little business was, doing; and; after a slight reaction, about middaylsettled diown with atendency to highe~rprices at theclose. Crown, Rieef rose j and rises of k are shown in. Band Mines,' City and Suburban, Lancaster, Meyer and Chariton, Rleitiontein, ...

... ?? Z. ailt of Vrt!Aol, The Bristol assze opers ttris morning at eleven o'clock at the Guildhall, MIr Justice Wright ?? the clrilinal court and N'r Justice Mathew In the civil. The adjourned Council mecting has now boen lixed for Tuesday next, 27th inst. An additional reason for tidjourniug vas the desire to defer it until after the funeral of Alderman Smith. The funeral of Alderman W. Smith ...

... BRISTOL CLERGY IN CONFERENCE, Need for Theological Study, Canon Tetley Speaks Out. re Yesterday a meeting of the Rurl-deocanal Chanter of Bristol was hold in the Chapter Room of the Cathedral, the subject for discussion, Theological Ie Study after Ordination, being opened by the Rev C. F. Andrews, l.A,, vice-principal of the Clergy Training Sohool, Cambridge. The rural dean (Canon Prideaux) ...