FEMININE FASHIONS AkNa FA-NCIES. ?? ~ Some of my readers are anxious -cht I should say more about the fashions and dresses which I see in my wander. ings in Lordon, but I find the dull, depressing weather we are even now having, with here and there a fine day, pre- vents anything

SPREECH DAY AT DUBHAI4 SCITOOL. The :annual speech day at Durham School took plane on Wednesday. The Bishop of Durham, the Archdeacon of Durham, and other dignitaries of the Cathedral were e amongst the audience. T HEAD MASTER (Rev Dr Holden) opened the proceed. f ings by welcomi

THER AFFAIRS OF ffSSRS LLOYD AND CO. Q±' MIDDLESBROUGH. MEETING OF CREDITORS. On Tuesday morning, a meeting of the creditors of the estate of Messrs Lloyd and Co., ironmasters, of the Lin- thorpe Ironworks, Mliddlesbrough, and the Lackenby Ironworks, Redcar, was held at the Queen

If IEB RBQuaSITlON TO LORD HAXTINGTON. A. deputation of representatives of the Liberal As. 0oelation of North-East Lancashire waited on the Mar- quis of Hartington on Thursday at Devonshire Rouse for thepurposeof presenting a requisition from the else- ?? at the general election

HOUSE OF COMMONS- Saturday. The House held a sitting on Saturday for the pur- pose of considering the Army Discipline and Regula- tion Bill in committee. Sir Charles Dilke said the terms of the resolution he intended to move on the 22nd inst. would be as follows : — ?? That aa h

▲ Loan Woman.— One who has moasv ad m) ia* How would you measure your lover's sincerity f By his sighs. A Growing Evil.— That clothing won't grow with glower. What roof never keeps out the wet P— The roof of the mouth. • Let us be collected,' as the water-rate said to the income

I Mr °Monne!, a Dublin police Magistrate, has fined • man named Keating i. 5, at the proeecution of the Public Health Coin. mittee, for holding a wake on the body of • child who died of small -pox. It was mentioned that a man who was at the wake also died of small-pox. The Magis

WINNER or Till The four thousand one huod - re — d — gt7i - ne w ea .. ' Maximilian Ilse at dens something towards justifying the ridiculous pries that was paid for him The Russley party won a fairish stake over him in the Liverpool Cup, and ae the ha. taken nearly ia stakes and

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Mnet unseasonable weather emitionee to prevail over the West Coast—heavy rains falling daily, accumisinied with strong aind• and an unusually low t.mperatute. Ste..euer, ountinue to he thinly patavuise.l. and generally speaking the number of ideeteure on the wrist year has been