Dressmaker has now ready for Inspection PATTERN COSTUMES her own make, being Styles taken from London Fashions, and produced a much Lower Price. Orders taken for any style of dress. Estimates given and a perfect tit guaranteed. Extensive variety of DRESS MATERIALS to choose from

P»ld-np and Invested Funds, £260,000; —Premium Income, £235,000. Chairman .. .. M. Farquhar, Esq. Apply the Clerks at the Railway Stations, the Local Agents, or Officb 8 Grand Hotbl Bcild.nqs, Charing Cross ; or at the H«ax> Cornhtll, London, E.C. WILLIAM J. YIAN, Secretary. Aaw

An undefended action of divorce at the instance of John Emslie, farm servant, 47 Powis Place, Aberdeen, against his wife, Catherine Walker or Emslie, residing with her mother at the Grant Arms Hotel, Monymusk, was heard in the Court of Session yesterday. Proof was led, from whic

AGRICULTURAL REVIEW, [From a Special Correspondent.'] Aberdeen, Friday morning. The two or three days of good, dr3 , and drying weather which we hare experienced this week have been of the greatest possible benefit to the agriculturist in the northern counties, enabling him in t

ABERDEEN PROVISIONS, Friday.—The following are to-day’s prices:— s. o. - - 8. D, 8, Beef, per o t° - Sea trout, per 1b..0 otoo* Aiuttou, do. ....0 6too 10 Ualibut,do 0 oto 0 V eal, do oloto 1 2 Cod, do 0 0 0 10 Ling, do .„o 4to 0 6 Pork, 0 Potatoes j>er stoaeO 7to 6 Hcres, each

DISASTROUS WATERSPOUTS ITALY. A Rome telegram in the Times says news from Massa and Carrara states that a furious waterspout had destroyed the road leading to the suburbs and isolated the population of them, which numbers 7000 persons. The railway station of is inundated, and the

INVERURIE TOWN COUNCIL - NOMINATION MEETING. A meeting the electors of the burgh of Inverurie wa.-, held in the Towuhall there on Tuesday, for the purpose of nominating three gentlemen to fill the vacancies in the membership of the Town Council, ‘caused in consequence of the reti

There has just been handed to Provost Kilpatrick, Ayr, one the trustees of the Burns’ Cottage and Monument, a walking-stick which is said to have long been used by the national poet, and which, from 1844 till within a year or two ago, had been in possession of a gentleman in New

'ere ; • a nasty jump for man, sir, Let alone for a woman to clear. D’ye see the fencing around it ( And the cross ? That’s, as folk can tel\ As this is the very spot, sir, Where her sweet young ladyship fell. X don want to bounce or be boastful— It ain't my way ; but look here—

SINCLAIR'S lb The Family GROCERS arid Wash with- D C OLD OILMEN. out the misery of a ATER Steamy House. Saves Time, Fuel, Labour. SOAP. The Magic CI • BEWARE OF IBITATIOBR. Ask for " SI NCLAIR'S" A lady writes to The Owns, " I It to sow, ; it wives tiros sad MI.,W; moor fool, ro