... have suggested to him that we I to are rather a long way yet from the take- leaway-that-baublestage. Perhapsit is a proof e that we have arrived at our second childhood . it in these matters; bat there is the fact, and it I is' likely to exercise the wonder ...

... third time. Lord Knutsford moved the second read- ing of the Preferential Payments in Bankruptcy Act (1888) Amendment Bill, and the motion was carried; and Lord Lansdowne, supported Iby Earl Spencer, carried the sane stage of the Military Works Bill. The Voluntary ...

... tile Registration Bill, and in the event of this bill being read a second time, the second reading stage Of the Scotch Local Go- vernment Bill would be taken. Me expected to take the second readina of the Budget Bill before Wliitsuntide? and also he trusted ...

... LONDON, APRIL 12. The cuckoo has been heard in the neighbourhood LE Y of Southampton. .a TELEGBSAY FROM GRRECE.-WhO manufactures the ra telegrams whieh arrive in London from - Greece ? pe a They have not even the merit of being plausible sp falsehoods ...

... presenting a purse of sovereigns to i the Rev. D. Brown, minister of the parish, on the occasion of his jubilee. The annual summer show of the Glasgow IAgricultural Society was opened yesterday dmorning in the Queen's Park Recreation Ground, and will be continued ...

... seven long hours had elansed bse- fore the tide had ebbed to such an extent as enabled him to make a second -ttempt to re'aen tile s-lore. The second io-urney for home Wns haopoil! more successful t'han the first. It was after seven o'clock ere Mr Hutton ...

... carry a direct road on the higher level to the north of the present main thoroughfare between the Second and Third Wards of the burgh, has been advanced a stage by the approval, on a division, of the Town Council. AIr Sang. C.E., who had been requested to ...

... ons Clerks (Ireland) Bill were read a second time. Mr Litton movted the second reading of The Summry Jurisdiction JIreland) Bill, but on the moti=oof Mr Brodrzick the debate was ad- E journed. The debate on, the second reading of e the Church Patronage Bill ...

... Pobertson Newcastle. sang well in the second part of the programme, ?? consisted of miscel- u laneous pieces. The audience vas fairly large and very appreciative. I MOFFA.T Cro!,t'T, UNIxO.-This society gave I their second concert last nigbt. when there was ...

... Scottish Rifles-John Henry Huarlan to he Second-Lieutenant. 2d (Angus) Volunteer Battalion (the Black Watch) Royal Highl1auders-Second-Lieutenan; J. Moffat to he ~ieutenant; William Douglas Johnston to he Second-Lieultenant. 3d (Dundee Highland) Volunteer ...

... of tie last 60, in the first stage, will recive prizes of £2 each. The highest scorer in the first stage, will, for the lrst tune, receive a bronze medal. i Then the higher 300 in the first stage pass into', the second stage, fron m which ...

... L ON - D O N . APRIL 7. lJir. Lohosclcere._\te have aiuthority to state that there Ti is no fraruiatioin whatever tor a report which has Peeic -ir- culte;3 for the last div or two, to the ?? that jr. La- bour-hlere intends to retire from thle ?? of lri-h ...