... tbe Court. Balmoral Castle, June 6. fThe Queen went cut yesterday miorninaG with Princess Christian, and ia the a-fternooni Her Majesty drove ont accompanied by Hier R oyal ighness the Duchess Of V'ork, and attended by the Hon. Aline Mdaiendiie. Lord James of Hereford, Cisncellor of the Ducihy of Lancaster, has left the Castle. t The lion. Derek KeppeL had the honour ...

... DE ATH OF REV. aIR GPAle, ELGIN. Rev. W. A. Gray, minister of South Free Church. Blgin, died early on Saturday nornitig at tle manse. Hav Street. For some years he had been in ill health. and received assistance in the work of his congregation. Inr hopes that a change of climate would improve his health, he was last winter given the charge of the Pres- byterian Church at Bieri'ltz. and during ...

... I A~I T D NORTIERN poar 0~uruoshhave appoint~4j 1, Scn'1 tllen Bart-. of Leys, chairman. -.7, u hrr -eld has been unasal- . r ienrn Firk f the Free Church at 5:lo 3v. ppJr1 , RirkcaldY, has been| -Rev5 _ initer of Tiarlanid Free e .Gle, reserve of oflicsrq, has 7 Royal hcottisli Reserve 'imanding the 1st Aber- L'', s, been granted an lrrte C U-nmLand for four years. ernde (Militia). at ...

... EERAL -Al,.ASEMB12IES& 0gt'RCH OF SCOTLAND, B ty~o THEr Qll a, NSLiEflT HOME \1{SSTON WOR.K. TheGeerl tecoirblv of the Church ofco Tb.4 ~ ter yete a ele'ttioroe lZ, -5 yomoMaclend, modeorator. The Ealrl of jeve Nrand Pllcl ok his i-Cat 0n the, throne onptiv ac, the' hour Of Ineetllill-a (till 14oose. .0' Im 1alour ot ludi;tlibentee o,,4Ai,eTh~ andi wits grceeted with hIntl xe-eira. yrcairl' ...

... TM BI, VANSFE MYSTERY ACCUSED IN SHERIFF COURT At thle first or pleading dift of a Sheriff and Jury Court in Aberdeen 1iheriff Court on Monday - Sheriff Bur- *net on the beneh- - nAie wlissie (18), who had been employed as a domestic servant in the Mianse of Birse, was ehazged with the cime of concealment of pregnancy. She had given birth to a ehild on 7-th 'August, and had given no ...

... INTRE,--1N GA DE-AfLNG PRO- SECU3ION. I gBALLATER LI4AN7D: RiEyE | ds SUTERVRISOR SNUiBED. .e, John SWith, game-dealer, Braemar Road, Bat. es dater, was at Alberdeen Sheriff Court on Friday.- id ,,before -Sheriff Burnet,-oh'trgetl with having, on ,Wednestdy,- he bbing -a person licensed to sell t ,g~e~tslnt ns bough t~frcn Osa'.Q re Smith, as 'IdrN i'eervant' Mains of Hopewell, Logie-Cold- ...

... ACTION AGAINST RICHARDS, Lf.IMITED. In Aberdeen Sheriff Court Saet week, the re- cord was cloced in an rction at the instance of Alexander Younr'gon, linen merchant and agent,. London, agair.6t Mcssrs Richards, Limited, Broad- ford Works, Aberdeen, concluding for payment of a sum of £289 14s, as damages for breach of colltract. In his petition 3Ir Youngson .bates that he carried on a separate ...

... | DISPUTE BETWEEN FARTMERS. I TNTEIRBSTINWG 0S.. I he Crt of Sesslon on W 7niday, Lord S |tornonth Darling -disposed of an action at iLe I instance of Henry Mackay, The Grove, Parkhl, F Rpsshire, against James Mitchell Thompson, . faar, 8h-dhirrek 3Iains. Puruer, the at going tenant of Shndur&c iafins in 1898, brought this action against the ingoing tenant for £1175. i6s d as t'ne amnjust ...

... FARMS, FARMERS, AND FARMING . THE SEASON'S PROSPECTS. That the trade in cattle and sheep during the comang season, writes a correspondent, is likely to be good there can be little doubt. We have fair reason to hope that the recent outbreaks of foot-aad-3mouthr disease in Norfolk and Suffolk have been stamped out, and if this should, hap- pily, prove to be the case, one source of serious ...

... A JUCHLAmD CGUAp.E. BUSH FPOETM GRAPHIC DESMOHIPTxO- 'Oat of that nine monThs' campsign, erowded every day with new experienzes and fresh in- pressions, the fact that impressed me most of all was the abeolute self-reliance of 'the old man.' Roberts lifted un, prqjnoted, or destroyed the army generals-mnn as big almost as himself in the public mind-as if they were little children. Ye.s; Roberta ...

... CULTS FREE OHURCH, A pleasant gathering took place *n a s h of Cut3 Free Church on Thursday nii'.b ciDi all the ladies and gentLemeri eaa cc -i. vattous departments of c'husuah work S d- School teachers, members of the choir, &izzn:'p iion Fund collectors, and members of tiw YO-e; Women's Guild-were inletted to ^a br liortosa' court. The haall, w.-oIUsely deccrs o' wi;:.h evergreen;s'and ...

... ?$ASSJNATiO? oF THE OF ITALY. iljT-1ROUG(iH THE I ggs OF ASSALIANT. (jEiTflB S TEI.EGRAM.) RoDIe, Ssm43ay. e Hnmbrnt' was sshot last evening at a man~ nlamed Angelo Bressi, of udc dieljd in a few minutes. (I{EOTEE T .LEORAM.) Mlonza, Sunlday. w ftvas ais's sinated here this nill aiter ntten ding a pablic function. ir~6t hd ist cateredl his carriage with his Ie, ila amid thle cheers of the ...