CURTAINS, including Art Frilled Unsling, Guipure. bre, &a. NEW ART CRETONNES & BLIND MATERIALS, from the Lowest Frier. NEW CARPETS, in various qualities, Aubusson, Axminster, Velvet Piles, Art Squares, ike., &a RUGS of English and Foreign Make. LINOLEUMS, CORK CtRPETS. 'BATTINGS

MILL WMe NORTH & SON / WITIIIIRBY MILLS. WATCHES! WATCHES! WATCHES! THE CHEAPEST HOUSE IN YORKSHIRE FOR WATCHES.AND JEWELLERY OF ALL KINDS 18 WITHOUT ANY DOUBT MIDDLETON & POLLARD'S, 143, BEIGO ATE (Aswan Hun's) LEEDS GENTLEMEN'S ENGLISH LEVER BATCHES, Said Gold Cares, from £5 1

10 MATCH of desoripitona SpeeiST else being eland in SILKS AND SATINS at prices within the reach et aIL • CO 10 A. NI II PA, BRIGGATE, AND 6, UPPERHEAD ROW, LEEDS. R. I eaU te their HOUSEHOLD LINEN AND %WERT DEPARTMENT at Out abet , * the Railway Bridge.) 555

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PRICFS in Stock. NOTEPAPER AND ENVELOPES, COPY BOOKS, POCKET • BOOKS, BIRTHDAY CARDS, MARKING INK, PENCILS, PENHOLDERS, PURSES, And all Descriptions of STATIONERY. -101 PA RCEIS with all the Weekly and Monthly Papers and Novelettes received from London on Thursdays and Saturdays

The First of September falling on a Sunday this year the partridgcesh,oting season commenced on Monday. In the Windsor district of the Thames Valley warm autumnal weather prevailed on Saturday and as the barometer was still rising, there was every prospect of fair sport upon the

The Earl of Strafford shown in many ways his interest in the welfare of the neighbourhood adjacent to his country seat at SS rotham-park, Barnet, and particularly so by his recent gift of sufficient ground on which to build a rectory for the parish of Chipping Barnet. The living

Leeds on Hire for DINNERS, PARTIES, Ac., CROCKERY. CUTLERY, GLASS, At. • WMACK'S SPECIAL DINNER SETS, 27, PIECES. 10s. Bd. the Set. • WkIACK'S SPECIAL CHINA SETS, .ill. Tea and Breakfast, 52 pieces. 21s. the Set. A %MACK 'S for TUMBLERS. WINE OLLSSEB, and DECANTERS.

MACKINTOSH'S BALLS, LKEDS. Who have been the Only Melons of them for the last 26 years. Prices:- 3 Balls, la ad ; 6 Balls, 2s 6d. The lialf•crown Size sent Carriage Paid to customers • distance from Leeds, on receipt of that amount.

A very heavy thunderstorm—the heaviest for years—broke over Birmingham about six &cluck on Sunday evening, and lasted over an hour. The flashes of lightning were very brilliant and followed one another in quick succession, and the peale of thunder were loud and nearly continuous