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POST-OFFICE SUNDAY WOEK. Nt A deputation from the Glasgow Working Alen's St Sabbath Protection Association waited yesterday on is Mr Hobson, and presented the following statement PI r:garding postal work on Sabbath in and around Chi- Of "That postal work on Sabbath need not exist

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special meeting of this Roar was held afternoon. Lord Provost Jamieson presided, and tne other members present were—Baillies Donald, Smith, Macdonald, Esslemont, Ross, and Dtsffus Shoremaster Paterson ; Dean of Guild Waller; Messrs Findlay, Ogilvie, Mearns, Hunter, Wilson, David