A finer performance could not have been given than was presented yesterday evening of Mozart’s Quintet in A, with Mr. Kruse as leader and r. Clinton as the clarinettist. Mr. Haydn Inwards took the second violin, r. Gibson the viola, and Mr. Whitehouse the ’cello. With all the ad

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PROFESSOR SALMOND ON THE UNION OF CHURCHE8, I p~~~ Rev. Professor Salinond. Aberdeen, officiated in New PitOligo FIree Church on Sunday at both ssrvioesg. Teore Sere large coligrege.Liois, tie church being crowdied to overflowvin at both dists of worship. In the forenoon Professo

LATEST MOVEMENTS. Monday Evening. The following are the latest Continental rates of exchange on London as cabled this evening : — Prey. day. To-day. Paris, cheques, ?? 25.22 i 25.23 Berlin, cheques,... 20.434 20.44 Berlin, 8 days' sight, 20.42 20.22 Berlin, 3 months. 20. 28^ 20.

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A further meeting of the Royal Commis- sion on Tuberculosis has been held to recon- sider their report, which, it is understood, is to be presented shortly after the reopening of Parliament. It is to be feared, however, that, like other matters appertaining to British agricultur

Perth municipality are making gradual pro- gress with the carrying out of the several large and important schemes embraced within their 1897 Improvements Act. The other week we reproduced a sketch of the new bridge, and above we give a view •■{ the new gasworks about to be erect

A STRIKE AT THE IRISH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL. A Glasgow correspondent telegraphs : — It has transpired that the professional football players who represented Scotland in the international League match against Ireland at Dundee on Saturday struck five minutes before the kick-off, r

VZ t COO3Y COUNCIL. oB TANT LEGAL QUESTION. . „ of St Andrews District n f'..un«y Council was held in ?? °V< \ndrew*. yesterday. Colonel %«Ki Cambo, prided over a large *"> ir.lrh vice-convener of the county, i: B fallowing resolution come v, at tc ■"■ he Dismr-t Committee held i

and was badly injured. A curious circumstance in the case is that when Mr Leathley left home his wife tried to dissuade him from going. She had a presentiment that something would befall him, and soon after he had left she followed him to the station, where she arrived few momen