The following is the hew of books for the week ending Saturday, nth December. 13641: — Sciences Arts .. .. 4 Fine and Recreative Arta... .. 13 Social sad al l I ... 1 Phikeophy sod rd y 41 Poetry red Dinar ... 17 - - 756

My first school was at Perth Seminary. Then I went to Stirling, where I learned classics. Dr. Paton was my master , and he eventually became head of the High School of Glasgow. Yes. it was there, at Stirling. where I met and learned to love the boy who suggested the 'lad of pain

8. -THE NEWS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1899. people. In hot. indifference was the worst foe they had to fight. He hoped there would be greater unity between the evangelical churches. If Christianity was to progress at all, it Gould only do so when all were united. There never was a t

Last Saturday afternoon the large and wellproportioned schoolroom at Park Methodist Free Church, Brighouse. presented • very pleasing appearance on the occasion of the opening of a two days' eale of work in aid of the trust and church funds. The sale was opened by Mr. Wm. Lister

FRIDAY. [Before t h e Mayor (Coon. J. W. Clay), Ald. R. Ald. Pilling, Mews. J. T. Goodall, W. Comm and J. Fairborn.] OCCASIONA LICENCE. John B. Clarkson. landlord of the Crown Hotel. made an application for an occasional licence for the occasion of the Brighouse Juniors' Footbal

When an incident like the following occurs here in Brighouse, and • Brighouse man relates his experience in a Brighouse newspaper for the benefit of Brighouse people, its geouinenese cannot be doubted. It deserves close attention. It has the ring of truth about it that there is

Total No. woad— 2089 THE FIRST TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES was in 1880 founded in London, in connection with St. Thomas's Hospital. I may here say that St. Thomas's Hospital to-day proudly claims to be the finest nursing institution in the world. AU of us who have been to London w

and he is the son of the Hon. John Hay. ex- Ambassador at the Court of St. James's, and now one of Mr. McKinley's principal Secretaries of State at Washington. Young Mr. Hay remained for a few days in London before be started for Pretoria. audit is understood that he saw some of

Aid. Pr7lisg newel and Cann. seconded the at Aid. Helmet Wants!' were pat . he weld She M pit that by ths resolution atm of the 'suttee, the Council bad which they contained, Sanitary t iv te regard to this it woo the power of the Council to minutes of the Sanitary Committee, wh

LICENSED PREMISES. John Collingwood, quarryman,f3outhowram, was charged with being drunk on licensed premises on the 12th inst. P.C. Shepherd stated that he saw defendant, who went into the Pack Horse Inn taproom at 10-15 on the above date. Re then drew the landlady's attention