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THE YORK HERALDSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1389. YORK POLICE-CO CUT. THE SCHOOL BOARD QUESTION IN YORK. On Monday night a crowded meeting of Roman Catholic ratepayers was held in St. George's School, under the chairmanship of Mr.

W. Walker, J.P. On tbe motion of the Very Rev. Monsinor Ooldie, seconded by Mr. Thomas Dilcock, it was resolved unanimously That this meeting of the Catholics of the city of York adopt as their representative and pledge themselves to return to the School Board the Very Rev.

Provost Dawson." On the motion of the Rev. Father Brady, seconded by Mr. CouuciUor Spink, it was unani- I mously resolved That an executive committee be formed to take the necessary steps to secure the return of tbe Very Rev. Pfovost Dawson." The proposed compromise was gsnerally regarded with favour. THE TJNSECTARIAS CANDIDATES.

On Tuesday a public meeting was held in the Victoria Hall for the purpose of considering the action to be taken by the unsectarian party at tbe forthcoming election of the York School i own full satisfaction, feel extremely righteous, angelically good, and think no more about the tiresome business. It was true that in the levities Of her own infatuation, in the insolences of her Badden social triumph, she had showered upon the Don-Quixotic mentor of her girlhood, open, Cruel, and contemptuous slights But why could he not have taken it all sensibly? Why could he not have put up with it, as they should do, men should, if they were men-and gentlemen-ebouldnt they: She wouldnt give another thought to it, -net a single further thought Yei-she would just give one other tho to it a reflection reassuring for her, blessedly suagested by the shepherd. As Mine. B3nnard ent on with her narrative, Mr. Herbert closed his eve? aid fancied be could hear the whole provtnTargument.

By its fruits the tree was Lown by iU results the action must be judged. Now of this action the results were apostolic Evelyn, our dear sister of Kensington Indepen-dentiem had won a soul over from indifference and in that good work she had come nearer to the Fold hereelf-the Kensington Fold. She was a cood and faithful servant; herdaysshouldbelong in the land glory to our proselytising sister who from indifference had won or scourged a stubborn 60 it she cave that other thought to it be th'ould rerrember that tne merit would have lain in bringing to the Fold- even the transitory Fold of Kensington a spirit gained by happiness, burdrned with gratitude and rapture, burning to offer preife; whereas the rote in which our friend Garth now was tiguriug was it might be said by people who were sure that no one overheard too unpleasantly like the poltroon's. And the essential of religion would be faith. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of thing? nut If so, and we' knew it from St.

Paul, how could we have faith in things not set, when that which we had actually with our awn eyes seen, proved illusory What if white and el-nder finger, closing upon a bared throat, had strangled Tilth? In the tabulated statements, however, ot the lunatic-asylum periodical report, there was religious mania, too. "They listen, hen he preaches to them as well as he can in our language," concluded ifaie. Bonnard he gi ves them money, now and then, and that is why they listen. When he has gone away, they laugh at him and the children Iau.3h at bim ac he goe- along and 1 don't wonder" Mme. Bonnard, laughed, as she gazed out into the street- H.r indeed he is a droll figure-strangely! A Mr.

Toppin, also, contributed a smile. It was sympathy. The jay threw in a chuckle of his own and that was 'tentative. We are going on, now, to our friend, Mr. Allen's." said Mr.

Toppin, preparing to take leave. Does he preach to the people in the daytime 'Not often. It nt night. You will find him at home, now, I 6hould imagine." lioliert Robert Silence, toil" commanded the woman, st rnly Fuhe-neus la pair And the precise address? "It's 'o. 13 hifchar up on this side of the way." "The number of ill-luck 13!" observd Mr.

Toppin, pleasantly. "There's ill-luck in all the numbers here," muttered the woman and it's always Friday although this is the gay end of the street." Ah, canaile vociferated the tiend, with a shout of defiance Robert, tot one faimt Mm. Bonnard sprang up and 'lung adark cloth over the cage. Uh, la', la'. they heard in smothered and mournful ac Robert 1 11 buy him from you," sai 1 Mr.

Tjppin, at the threshold. Mme. Bonnard sat down at the counter, trembling. I won't part with bun," she returned, LOCAL NEWS. YORK MINSTEK.

ANTHKHS AND SBBVIOBS FOB THH BHSUIBQ WBBK. Scotat Fourtb Sanrtr.T sfter Epiphany. Morning berviceat 10.30. Garrett in B. Kyrie Creed.

CKrrett In B. Introit: 9 "Tbe Lord ii my light" Hacfarren. Evening Service at 4. Litany, Anthem 546 Blessed lie the God and Fsthi Wesley. Nave-Service at 8-45 Psalms 52, 54.

Magnificat 255. Nunc Dimittit 179. Hymns. HosDiT. Morning Service at 10.

Beven In D. Anthem 224 Why art thou" Gibbons. Bvening Service at 4.30. Bevin in D. Anthem 240 "Sing joyfully" Byrds.

Tuebpat. Morning Service st 10. Bryan in G. Anthem 285 The Lord hear thee" Blow. Bvening Service at 4.30.

Bryan in Q. Anthem 255 "Hear my prayer" Battel. WEDirESPAV. Morning Service at 10. Croft In A.

Hymn. Litany. Bvening-nServiee at 4 JO. No choir. Thubsdat.

Momlng Service at 10. Blvey in flat. Anthem 423 Oill to remembrance" Battishill. Bvening Servics at 4.30. Blvey in A.

Anthem 49J for the mountains shall depart" Mendelssohn. Morning Service st 10. To Deum G. Bene-dictus 160. Hymn.

Litany. Bvening Service st 4.30 Macfamn in fiat, Anthem orucified Nsylor. SilDBnaT. Morning Service st 10. Tuckermsn In O.

Anthem 581 "How geodly" Ouseley. Bvening Service st 4.30. Hoyte to flat. Anthem 63S King all glorlonfc" Bsmby. Pbioet-stbekt Baptist Chubcb, Tobk.

We learn that the Eev. 15. E. Fisk, of London, has received a call to the pastorate of this church, which he has accepted, and will commence his labour on tbe first Sunday in March. Salb op Phopebtt in Tobk.

On Tuesday aftercoon Messrs. Acton and Acton submitted to public comrx tition at Harker's Hotel, York, the residence No. 10, Museum-street. The company was cot numerous. Commencing at 600, bids of 20, 10, 5, and 2 10s.

brought the price to 935, at which sum the property was knocked down to Mr. King. Knocked Down by a Cow. Fatal Bbsuxt. On Saturday afternoon Mr.

Henry Wood, county coroner, held an inquest st billings Am by on the body of a farmer of that village named William Hardy, aged 77 years, who, in the month of August last, had his thigh fractured by being knocked down by a cow, and who has since died from the injuries sustained. A verdict of Accidental death was eturced. Escape op Lunatics. On Wednesday, it Vas reported to tbe fork police that two lunatics had escaped from the borth Hiding Asylum, (Jlifton, that morning. One of them is man named Lacey, aged 29 years, who belongs to Scarborough, and tbe other is named Robert Close, 61 years of age, wbo bad resided at Darlington.

Both are dressed in the Asylum clothing. The man who escaped on the previous day has been captured, and returned to the Asylum. CORPOIIATB RePBESBNTATION ON THE YORK Fine aut Institution. In accordance with the 6chtme of representation on the Council of the Yorkshire Fine Art and Industrial Institution it is necessary that two Councillors, one each for Micklegate and Castlegatc Wards, shall be elected at the next meeting of the York City Council to act as repre-sentativi of the Corporation lor the next four years. The out-goine Councillors are Mr.

Procter and Mr. Kothertord (the latter of whom is not now a member of the Corporation), and the Finance Committee will recommend that Mr. Procter (Micklegate Ward) and a Councillor (tor Castlegate Ward) be appointed for the ensuing; four years, if they respectively shall so long continue" members of the Corporation. It is also necessary to appoint a representative for Guildhall Ward, in the place cf the late Mr Turner, and the committee will recommend that a Councillor be acrordingly appointed to fill the vacancy for the remainder of Mr. Turner's term of representation, until February, 1890.

The Fbiabs' Walls. We are able to give the most unqualified contradiction to the report which Las been freely circulated in York that iu order to provide some additional space for the New Police Offices about to be built in Clifford-street the old Friars' Wall, which faces the river Ouse, and extends to the commencement of the New Walk, is to be removed. No committee of tbe Council would propose nor the public allow such unwarrantable destruction. "These old walls pays Hargrove's History of York are remarkahless bounding part of the site of tie extensive and celebratedmonastery of the Friars Minors, of the ordercf St. Francis; formerly the occasional residence of the kings of England, when tbey came to York, and consequently the scene of many important events.

It was noble and spacious, and we are assured by Froisart that Edward III. and bis mother both lodged in it when the fray happened betwixt the English soldiers and strangers. The building was so convenient that each of these Royal guests, though attended with a numerous suit of quality, kept Court apart in it, which must argue that it was a structure of very creat extent and magnificence. William Vavasour, prior of this fraternity, with fifteen friars and five neviees, surrendered this house, Nov. 27th, in tbe 30th of Henry YI II" The York Union Baneiso Company.

Tho fifty-fifth annual report of the directors to the meeting of proprietors, to be held on the 7th Fab-ruary. is be follows In presenting to the share-htlders their annual report, accompanied by the annextd balance sheet duly audited, the directors have to ttite that the profits of the bank for the 3 1 tr, after deducting all expenses of management and meking full provision for ill bad and donbtlnl d. Ms, amount to loa. which added to the balance of 1.526 3-. 51, brought forward from the previous vear, makes a total disposable sum of 39,003 19.

lid. The share holders receii ed in August last an interim divi-derd at the rate of 5 per cent, on the paid-up capital of .00,000, and the directors now declare a further dividend at the rate of 12 per making 17 per cent, for the year (free of ir.ccme tax), leaving a balance of 5,003 18s. of which 3,000 haB been added to the guarantee fund, thereby raising that fund to 144,000, and 2,003 ISs. lid. is carried forward to the profit and loss account of the current year.

The directors who retire by rotation are Messrs. James Melrose and Frederick Leyland Mawdesley, who are both eligible for re-election. The auditors, Messrs. Price, Waterhouse, and also retire and offer themselves for THE BISHOP OF MPQX ON DANTE. On Wednesday the Festival ConcerC-motn at York was crowded in ev.

ry part on tbe occasion of a lecture by the Bishop of Ripon oo LUnte, The lecture was delivered under the auspices ot tbe Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and amooget the ladies and gentlemen who occupied seats in the orchestra were many who are prominently aseociatf with that institution. Those present included the Archbishop of York (who, as president of the Philosophical Society, iccupied the chair) tbo Ven. Archdeacin Blunt, the Ven. Arciideacon Watkins, the Rev. Canon Faber, tbe Rev.

W. Hey. Mr. and Mrs. David Dale, Mr.

Her.rv Tennant. Sec. The Bishop of Rrpos inviting the audience to consider with him Dante's character as the best key to bis great work. hH lordship graphieallv sketched the personal aupearance of Dante, end his intellectual and moral characteristics and then proceeded to pass in review tbe more significant epochs of hU chequered career. All greatness, his lordship said, insisted in this, that yon roust have what he called a divine idea linked iu with a human experience, and whau he turned lo this great story of Dtntn's lie saw the divine hiea linked with the human experience, ant he bicen to -uuderfitsiKl why this man Dant-j had grow in th estimation of human kind si iluririg the six ntunes that, had passed since he lived and breathed in this w-irld.

Dante was of that of mind that seized upon objects and incidents of everv kind anything which touched any aspect of life had to hitn a kind of figniticance and and forthat reason he rejoiced in the sports and occupations of men He was a man too who reflected thouaht-fiilly on mental procssee, and possessed a keen and subtle intellect that looked outward snd looked inwards a man who wa3 not merely the sport of passing impressions, but who consolidated those impressions by the power of his own vigorous intellect. Passing from Dante's life to his life-work, the right rev. lecturer conducted his hearers in imagination through the scenes which Dante painted in his Divine Comedy," and the eyes of the assembly were directed to the deep spiritual teaching of the poet. The allegorical pictures of the poem were vividly reproduced, the Bishop seizing every opportunity of bringing home a practical lesson, and for over an hour and a balf his lordship held the audience spell-bound by his unfaltering flow of eloquence, the intense silence with which he was followed being only broken by tbe enthusiastic plaudits into which his listeners frequently broke. At the conclusion of the lecture, the Abch-iishop, turning to the Bishop of Ripon, tendered to him the thanks ot the meeting, and expressed a bope that he would often return to York.

The Bishop of Ripon, in expressing his acknowledgments, said whenever his Grace asked him to re-visit York he should accept it as a command. (App'ause.) A CHAT WITH JOHN STRANGE WINTER." Among British novelists who have become public favourites during recent years, few writers have been more conspicuously successful than the lady wbo is now so well known as" John Strange Winter," to whom we owe," Mr. Ruakin has sai the most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given of the character of the British soldier and the production in York of a dramatised version of Booties' Baby," attracted an amount of attention, which, gratifying as it must have been to tbe author, was perhaps the highest compliment the "Minster city could pay in recognition of the prominent position she has so deservedly won in tbe literary world. My thanks are due to the lady for her kindness in allowing me to record, for the henefit of readers of tbe Herald, some impressions of a delightful chat with which I was favoured during the past week. Booties' Baby her first novelette under this nom de plume attracted immediate attention on its appearance in the London (rraphic in 1885, and on its publication in a one stalling volume it obtained a very large sale, and has never since been absent from British bookstalls.

The M.S. of this story, by the way, was offered to no less than six publishers before it was accepted the success attending its production was, however, so great that the writer achieved oopularity almost at a bound, and it is not too much to say that the reputation thus acquired has been more than maintained. Since then the gifted author has produced in rapid succession manv other stories ot military life. Over half a million copies of her works have been sold (exclusive of American and foreign editions) a sale not etiualled by any other British novelist during the same years. This phenomenal and sustained success has been eminently well deserved, for John Strange Winter has taken infinite pains to make herself a skille 1 writer of no common ordesr.

With a prudence snd thoroughness rare indeed in lady novelists, she voluntarily subjected herself for mtny years to a severe apprenticeship to work, oaJ devoted berself to an assiduous study of a quartette of authors all men, be. it not a vtth a view to acquiring for herself distinct and finished style before inviting criticism Sy piMtsh-ing her first hook. Dari'i thU parioi jfia wrote and sold, for serial use, ini i feTTTiiivi noms de plume, no less than forSy-twa novels several of which were of thre-vjlu a- le-nch besides numerous short stories and the first of which appeared in 1 7.1. II -ue- 1 published books were very far from tie work of a novice. Hiving passed her I if ia a garrison town, amid unique opportunities tot tie-coming familiar with army men andmainvr many of her contributions to magazines were nitunlly soldier-stories, and her first publication in volume form was a collection of these under the title of Cavalry Life." The publishers having pointed out that to issue such a work as professedly th-i work of a woman would prejudice its success, she adopted the name of one of her characters as a new nom de plume, and it was universally assumed that her work was that of a cavalry officer until she herself disclosed her identity when the favourable reception oc Booties' Baby," Houp-la," and In Quarters," had placed her reputation as an accurate army writer beyond question.

Most of her characters are either drawn from life, or suggested by living persons, and her general freedom from errors of fact is due to her patient care iu verifying her state-meats, and a strong feeling that "a novelist has no business to make mistakes," being free to Meeting of Sbtpownbbs in York. A meeting of the owners of ships managed by Messrs. Rowland and Marwood, of Whitby, was held at the North- Eastern Hotel, York, on Thursday. Mr. John Bellerby, J.P., presided, and the report which was presented was of a very satisfactory character.

In addressing the meeting the Chairman congratulated the shareholders upon the success of the past year. The dividend was nearly double that of the preceding year, and the revived prosperity in shipping had had a marked effeot on the ships owned by the company. The ships owned by the company were said to be all engaged in profitable employment, and in capital condition. The owners could be assured that in the present year the prospects were equally good if not better than the past year. Thb YeBK Thamwayb Company The half-yearly ordinary general meeting of tbe shareholders of the City of York Tramways Company, Limited, was helfi on Thursday, the Station Hotel.

The chairman, Mr. J. Kincaid, M.I.C.E., presided. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, concluded by proposing: That a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum be paid for the half-year ending 81st December last, and that the sum of 82 2s. t3d.

be carried to the reserve fund for renewals and contingencies." Mr. August Krauss, one of the directors, seconded tbe resolution. The resolution was then put to the meeting, and adopted Mr. J. Smith proposed a vote of thanks to the directors and officers of the company.

He referred especially to Mr. Young, tbe traffic manager, for he could say. from personal observation, that they could not have a man who would look more after tbe interests of the company than Mr. Young did. Mr.

Falconer seconded, and the resolution was adopted. Sudden Dbath of a Whitby Man. Oa Thursday evening, Mr. J. S.

Wood, city coroner, held an inquest at the Bay Horse Inu, Monk Bar, on the booy of Robert Leckenby, aged 63 years, a groom, who resided at Whitby, and who died very suddenly in the Bay Horse Inn, on tbe previous evening. Mrs Tessey man, of the Nelson's Flsg Inn, Whitby, said deceased was her brother. He was an inmate of the Whitby Union until a week ago, when he left for the purpose of going to the York County Hospital. Deceased went to the Bay Horse about four o'clock and complained of being cold. He was supplied with some whisky and went into the bar.

When Miss Harland went into tbe bar about half an hour afterwards she found he was dead. The evidence showed that be had been previously suffering from heart disease ana dropsy, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly. York Watch Committee. This committee wiil report to the City Council on Monday that payments on account of the Police Force during the past quarter to the amount ot 1,510 13s. fid.

have been made, being a decrease of 116 lis. 3d. as compared with tb.9 expenditure for the corresponding quarter of last year, arising mainly from the circumstance that larger payments were made in respect of clothing last year than in the quarter just ended. The committee state that they have instructed tbe Chief Constable to give effect to the resolution of tbe Council passed at its quart, riy meeting in November last with respect to makine inquiries in regard to cases of drunkenness. The committee have made payments on account of the Fire Brigade during the post quarter to the amount of 141 13s.

Id. The Yobk Cobpobation Accounts. Mr. J. H.

Wray, the professional auditor appointed by tbe Council to audit the accounts of the Corporation for the year ending March last, has reported to the Finance Committee that he bas audited the several accounts, which he found correct. In his report Mr. Wray states that arrears under tbe head of receipts and rates ou 25th March last were Borough (or Citv rate). 450 12s. 2d.

General District, 1,061 ISs. Bridge, 35 18s. lid. Rents aud acknowledgments Citv Fund, General District Bate Fund, 13 '8s. Cattle Market (Auction Mart Propertv), 6 9s.

and other arrears were Private Improvement Works, 4i2 19s. 7d. Ashes removed, 6 7s. II. Manure sold, 50 12s.

3d. Cattle Market, 19 13s. Provision Market, 12 6s. Wool Market, 15s. 7d.

and 148 18s. 6d. on Wool stored, of which sum 127 0s. bas since been paid. River Ouse Dues 95 0s 6d; Fever Hospital 17s lOd.

Thb Receipts of Lbndal and Skbl-deboatb, The receipts on account of Lendal Bridge, for the quarter ended the 31st December last, were 624 Os. viz. 573 15s. for three monthly instalments of rent from the lessee of the bridge tolls, 11 18s. for rents of lodge, vaults and archway, and 38 6s.

fid. for interest from bankers. Payments amounting to 150 12s. 6d. (including 150 7s.

for interest on loans) bad been made during the same period. The Skeldergate Bridge Committee have received during the quarter three monthly instalments from the lessee of tolls amounting to 351 2s. 6d. for transfer fee, and 461 Is. lid.

on further account of the rate laid in April, 1888, making together 812 9s. 5d, Payments amounting to 845 5s. 3d. have been made during the quarter, including 76 0s. 7d.

for interest on Capital and Revenue Backing Accounts, and 765 3s 2d. for interest on loans. York City Council Tub Agenda. A quarterly meeting of the l'ork City Council will be held on Monday next. The following is the agenda To take into consideration the resolutions and proceedings of the Streets and Buildings Committee, the Sanitary Committee, and the reports of the following Standing Committees: Estates, Lendal Bridge, Skeldergate Bridge, Finance, Watch, Ouse Navigation, Foss Navigation, Markets, and School Attendance Committees Mr.

Councillor Mann has given notice of his intention to move the following resolution, viz. That the Streets and Buildings Committee be requested to instruct the City Surveyor to take down and remove the wall now separating Wood-street and Eastern-terrace, Heworth Green, to have the roadway made available for the passage of vehicles between tho two streets, and to have crossings laid in a line with the footpaths of Wood-street across the roadway of Mr Councillor Clayton has given notice of his intention to move the following resolution, vis. That Bridge-street be paved with wood, in conjunction with and at the same time as the Skeldergate improvement is carried out and that he will present a memorial for such paving being done, signed by every occupier of property in the said street. Shocking Death of an Old Man in York. On Monday evening, Mr.

J. S. Wood, city coroner, held an inquest on the body of Joseph Littlewood, ased 79 years, an inmate of Thompson's Hospital, who died on Saturday evening. Edward Littlewood, of Selby, who is a son of deceased, said that on Friday, at 4 p.m., be called to see his father, and found the door locked. He shouted, and his father replied that he was laid on tb floor, and that witness was to get in.

Witness then got a locksmith to pick the lock, and on going into the house he found his father laid on the floor. He stated that he had fallen out of bed at three o'clock that morning, and had tried many times to get in again, but was unable. He had only his shirt on, and his arm was verv much swollen. Witness assisted him into bed, and he said he thought it was a slight stroke that caused him to fall out. Mr.

Hood, surgeon, said he found deceased laid in a most uncomfortable position, with the injured arm hanging out of bed and nearly touching the floor. The man himself was also nearly tumbling out of bed. Witness examined him and found that he had seriously injured his right arm, which was enormously swollen and rapidly turning purple, ueceasea was also very much swollen about the shoulder and collar bone. There was no fracture or dislocation, but he had ruptured a vein, and death was no doubt accelerated by the long exposure and exertion caused by bis efforts to get off the floor. The wife of Joseph Littlewood was also called.

The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. The jury recommended that the attention of the governors of the hospital be called to this case. Yobk and District Band of Hope Union. The annual meeting and social gathering of the members of the committee of the York and District Band of Hope Union took place on Wednesday last, at the Victoria Hall, when a large number eat down to a substantial tea. After tea, Mr.

J. H. Turner presided, and said he was sorry to say they were now going to lose the services of Mr. Barson, the general secretary, who was going to Leeds. He trusted that someone else would be able to take the reins of the union, and work it in the same successful manner as Mr.

Bar-con bad done. He was sure the union was sorry to lose his very valuable services, and they trusted that he would be as useful at Leeds as he had been at York. Mr. Marritt moved That the committee tendered their heartiest thanks to Mr. Barson for his services, and expeessed their deep regret that he was about to leave them.

Mr. Walker in seconding this said Mr. Barson had done his work so admirably that it needed no further comment from him. This proposition, which was supported by Miss Millington, was carried unanimously. Mr.

Barson, in responding, said that no one would regret to leave the city and sever his connection with the Union more than he did. He was very much obliged to them for their vote of thanks. The election of officers was then proceeded with. The Lord Mayor was elected president. Mr.

Graves moved Mr. Walker as general secretary. Mr. Barrow seconded this, and it was carried unanimously. On the proposition of Mr, Marritt, seconded by Mr.

Barson, Mr. Turner was unanimously re-elected treasurer. Mr. Graves moved that Mr. Tesseyman be re-elected financial secretary.

Carried. Mr. Tesseyman, the financial secretary, then read the balance sheet, which showed that the income for the last twelve months was 201 Os. and after paying all expenses there was a balance 16s. 10id.

After the reports had been adopted, tbe following were elected on the executive committee Miss Elsworth, Miss Morrell, and Messrs. Sanderson. Hawkins, Greaves, Jackson, Robson, Parkinson, Uutton, Myton, Oliver Barker, Marritt, and Gibson. Tub Skbldbbgate improvement At a meeting of tbe Streets and Uuildinp Committee on Wednesday, it wns resolved to offer the property required for the Skeldergate improvement for sole by auction on tbe 14th February, the conditions being that the buildings will have to be removed by the 1st of June. FnrENDi.Y Societies- Meeting.

On Thursday the annual meeting of tbe members of the Y'ork Friendly Societies' Medical Association took place in the York Institute. After the medical officer's report, dealing with the number ot cases ot sickness, had been considered, Mr. Brown, the secretary, presented the annual report, which stated that tbe societies numbered 55, representing 4,991 members, 11 transferred members, and families representing 1,490 wives and parents, and 3,510 children. Tbe financial statement showed under tbe bead of the dispensary account an income of 1,607 9s. and tbe expenditure was 1,533 14s.

2d. The building account showed a balance of 85 3s. and the total value of the Association was estimated at 1,577 15s. After the reports were past the election of officers was proceeded with, the following being the result President, Bro. R.

W. Wilkinson vice-president, Bro. B. Kilvington and the committee. Brothers A.

Marritt, T. Wilson, J. Puckering, J. W. Hodgson, J.

Parker. E. Arey, R. addinall, G. Douglas, N.

Stockdale, J. Cammidge, S. Henderson, and T. Vincent; auditors. Brothers H.

Brinton, C. Lawson, and J. Pillmoor. It was agreed to advance Mr. UTary's salary 10 per annum.

Mesers. A. Marritt and J. Brown were elected as the delegates to the Medical Alliance Conference, to be held at Gainsborough on Easter Monday. CASTLE HOWARD REFORMATORY.

The annual meeting of the Castle Howard Refcrmatory was held on Thursday last in the De Grey Rooms, York. The Lord Mayor presided, and there was an influential attendance. Mr. J. Wilkinson, secretary, read the report of the committee, which referred, with regret, to the death of Mr.

R. Hildyard, one of the vice-presidents of the society, and stated that he had not only been a liberal subscriber, but had taken great personal interest in the management of the school. The general health of the inmates had been, as usual, very good. No serious illness of any kind had occurred. The committee would, however, suggest the desirability of requiring from parents and other relatives and friends of the inmates who visited the schools some reliable testimony of freedom from infection.

They thought it desirable also that parents and relatives should understand that a penalty was attached to the harbouring or concealing or in any way assisting the escape or Ereventing tbe return to the echool of boys who ad abscoLded. In conclusion the committee referred to the superintendent's report showing tbe results of the work during the years 1885-6-7, which proved that as usual upwards of 90 per cent, of boys finally discharged within that period were living honeetlv. Mere than 500 boys had ''nally passed through the school, and upwards of 90 per cent, of the whole number had, so far as they bad been traced, turned out honest. (Applause.) The Rev. R.

G. Fish (superintendent) then read his report, in which it was stated that on the 31st December the total number of boys under detention was 98, of whom, there were in the sihool 81, out on license 15, absconded and not recovered 2. The admissions in 1838 were as follows From the North Riding, 12 ist Riding, 2 borough of Hull 15; York City, 2: borough of Scarborough, 1. All those boys had been previously convicted, or were kuovn ai associates of convicted thieves. Several had been convicted more than once previously; and in most cases many convictions might have beeu obtained if in all known to the police action lad been taken.

Referring to the evil influences of the common yard or court, the only places where children could play, and which were the common resort of good and bad alike, it was suggested that in large towns grounds should be set apart anl supervised where the children of good and honest people could out of school hours play or take exercise, aud be at the same time protected from the corrupting influences to which they were now fre quently exposed Apart from its moral aspect such a plan would prove one of real economy, as it would cost the rates less to take care of the children to some extent, and so prevent the mischief, than it did to punish aud reform the delinquents. The educational status of the boys admitted was above the usual standard. The good order of the school was fairly sustained throughout the year. The total number under detention on December 31st lost wa3 110, of wnom there were in the school 83, out on license 21, absconded and not recovered 1. The total number discharged in the three years 1385-6-7 was 56, ot whom 43 were placed iu employment by previous license.

I were returned to friends, 1 was discharged on account of disease, and 2 were discharged as incorrigibh. Of these 1 had siwfc died, 4 had been re-convicted, and 51 were living honestly. That gave about 92 per ceut. doing well. (Applause.) The Loud Mayor said thought the report would be considered most It prft of a large measure of success which have been eaid if the lads had been oaken pro-niTUOJSly from the general public.

For U'J to 92 pjr ceut. to turn out well from lads who had had such surroundings and who hail a3 it were, a street education was success mosi; satisfactory. It was almost a wjuder that they had not more lads who turned out considering the surroundings that many of thum had, What they heard and what tlwy saw in some of the lower neighbourhoods must tend to demoralise them, and if there was any inclination in them to do wrong it must be difficult for them to resist the temptation and overcome the evih Respecting the want which had been expressed namely, a place where children could play when away from home, and where they would be under Bom-; control, and where the language used would be right and proper he hop -4 such a want would be supplied by York very shortly. Sir Wm. Wobsley, moved the adoption of the reports which bad been read.

Mr. E. Gray seconded tbe adoption of the report, which was carried, as well as other formal resolutions. The Chairman suggested that in order to bring the institution more under the notice of tbe public, invitations should be issued for occasional visits to the Reformatory. Mr.

Fish said they did issue invitations for one day in the year on the occasion of the Harvest Festival. He would be glad to nave visitors on any day except Sunday. YORK COUNTY COURT. TUESDAY. (Before His Honour Judge Tubnkb.) Strong Denunciation from the Bbnch.

Thomas Atkinson, a farmer occupying a farm at Harton, was sued by Geo. Lobley, blacksmith, Flaxton, for 5, money lent. Mr. Alfred Procter appeared for plamtifr, and defendant was represented by Mr. Crumbie.

Plaintiffs case, as supported in evidence by himself and wife, was that on the20th went to plaintiff 8 house to beg the loan of 5 to make up the amount of his spring rent. Plaintiff was absent from home, but his wife took note from a cash-box and handed it to the defendant. When subsequently called upon to repay the loan defendant said the amount was only 4, and alleged that he had returned that amount to Mrs. Lobley at Flax-ton Feast. Mr.

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'H Collings. his wife, were charged with frwn? tbe Pavement for tbe purpose of co na'-- l7, felony. Detective Inspector Denham u.J' i down the lane in the thu leading a man, who was about T' "'u by the arm. The male prisoner was short distance behind. When they oot i yard, the woman said I'll teach 'you me down here," and commenced Jl" the man about.

Denham then arresteil neSf the man wbo followed, as he was convinc' were there for a felonious purpose 1 Doherty said, as he was going down 'i" Peckitt's-yard the woman came ud to hi, asked him to go with her. she then co-mi' ransacking his pockets, and the man strerfrT a violent blow in the face, causing in, ln bleed. Defendants declared th, had intention, and that Doherty first Tbey were making their way iro Hull. Remanded for a weak iu ori inquiries might be made. Tk.is.a-.

Clothks Cp; Michael i a labourer, was brought up from sh tfi charged with dettroyins bis clothing ing Mr. Leng, aietatit workhouse that when be went into the Vagrant morning he fcmn the defendant whole of his clotning into mall mitted to York Castle for a Bbb-sking into a SAUDT.g-nnnM. Nicholson (24), a labourer, of Uiift. chanted with breaking and ent rinj room in Avenue-terrace, Ciifton, ou the ni the 21st ult, and stealing ther-fr-nn rugs, the property of Mr. C.

Cowl.caS prv Prisoner, who had been previously oeirrieM for felony, was now committed to for three months, with hard labour. Mt'' Gl ILDHALL. Tukudat. (Befoe the LoaD Mavob i Attbmptkd Suicidb. Thomas labourer, Richmond, was brought uuch.ir having attempted to commit, suicide by lron' "1 in the river Ouse ou the previous Jay defendant, who appears to a ran, intellect, bad nothing to say.

W4a remanded until Monday next. GUILDHALL. THrssPA-r (Before the Lcbd Mavoh and Mr. Ti a Walkeb.) A Yotjso Vagrant. John Alfred little lad of eight years of age, wns 1 charged with begging.

P.C. Paul sni ij I the little lad beaging near to the srtatj Lord Mayor said it was a pity that sn a iini fellow should be allowed to wander ab it. iv? would commit him to an Industrial 3e he was 16 years of age. SHOCKING NEGLECT OF CHILDREN IN V'ORR, At the York Police Court, on Momky, the Lord Mayor and Mr. VY.

Tnomlmsoa-iv, man named John Harrison, aged ajut 35 yL living at 14, Layerthorpe Building. jp( answer to a summons, issued at the iustai the Society for the Prevention Children, tor having neglected to proper food, clothing, and medieil aid i if i. children. Captain Ingram prosecuted of the society. Mr.

Henry Charles Sbann, surgeon, said tt sag was reported to him on Wednesday lost, anijq 'a, secretary of the society-he went jw there was evidence of wilful neglect. Tbi iiiiii, was in a very wretched condition, an no furniture in it He found the- mother uf vin Children lying" on the floor, and the i. in other parts of the room ou som- jhs They were in a very dirty couditiou. Their were covered with lice. He found that it tost time defendant had a bail hand, and was unlj to work.

Witne-ss went to the Hospital to the child that was there. It was starved, miserable child, of live yais and .1 ought to have weighed two iitonea aod cUt pounds, according to the average, out it oalj weighed one stone and 4j pounds, tt was ing from no disease, and he saw no bruises oa ills body.Tbere wag every evidence to 3aoWtaatii ai not been properly fed, and the symptoms its were the result of long continued starvation, flu defendant bad been told at tb Hospital wiut a do with the children, and the inatruutioaa not been carried out. Defendant said his wife wa to blam-. 11-1 1 ber what the doctor said about the childr-nj heads, and she had not carried out tions. Sarah Little, single woman, who lodges at 1-tendant's house, said she paid him 2s.

i--v -her room, and Dad lodged with them sines last August. The man was then at work, ood house was not so dirty, dhe thought it tfU -t ndant's wife's fault that things were so lirtj and wretched. She had seca him thra-'i and thought they had a spite agam-t the hat was the hospital, and did not care f.rit thesanieas t'la others. She thought defea i id his best for th others when ho was ia rpi at work. Mr.

Munby Do you know anything ij their money matters Witness did not. They had the children insured, but she did not kno-v for how ca icti. 'm had seen tbe insurance agent collect th- lavitef She had never heard defendant say nivt ilig about the insurance, only that he wa- lai pay the instalments. Defendant 1 knew nothing about the cbiilM being insured. It was my 14 missus'" who ui ir-1 them, aud I did not know until one Saturday.

--a the insurance agent called tor the money. Mr. William kawlings, one of the school atta dance officers, said he had known the family the last five or six years. L'p to the if November last the defendant was working I is north Riding Asylum and earning Us. it He had been working there since the March.

Their furniture had been seized under i distress warrant, and when he last saw tie jjW there was nothing but some straw on the Hp He had advised defendant ta give up tbe dnaf and see properly towards bis children. befcre Christmas defendant's eldest chill a boy of thirteen years of age, was mitted to an industrial school, and witness tool him to Dr. North's house to get examined. Ii poor lad had no shirt on, and witness, pitying condition, gc him a shirt to put on before went away the following morning. Witness ku nothing about tbe Insurance.

He had beeo the house that morning and there was el there about 2J years old, which was in a siaiiat condition to the one that was at the The woman took no steps to attempt to set Eft children's heads better, and the school-makers if course refused to admit them to the eieuieatiry schools. Mr. Munby Have you any questions to him Defendant No, but I do not drink. Mr. Munby The evidence has clearly hn that you do, but apart from that there has te money coming in.

Defendant in answer to a further questwa wj he stopped working at tbe Asylum in SOiwaiWS and for the last two or three weeks he had breaking stones on the Islands. The Lord Mayor (to defendant) We loof that you have not used that care which T-'1 should have exercised in providing for the of your family. You will be committed to Jt Castle for one month, with hard labour. THE BUILDING TRADE IN YORK A joint report of tbe lork Corporation Buildi" Inspectors, Mr. Ogleeby and Mr.

Whincup. frtW past year with respect to new buildings 40,1 sanitary works connected with their depat3le1" has been presented to the Streets and tfawWj Committee. This contains some interestiuii statistics, from which we extract the Dwelling bouses for which plans havo I'f approved during 1888, including those w-iu were approved but not Completed at the eau )' 1S87, 5lib Of these ihere have been compisj 250 in course of erection, 134 not comrneac1 142. Probable rentals 100 and upward-80 to 100, 0 60 to 80, 0 to 40 to 50, 0 35 to 40, 6 110 to JEA'-25 to 30, 4 18 to 25, 16 15 to 1. 12 to 15.

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Leeds, Board. Mr. Henry lennant presided. The Cuaibman said the business of a School Board would be to see that every child in the city was supplied with good education. It would be the duty of the School Board to see that that was carried out with a dud regard to real economy.

Mr. Councillor Pboctbb gave a resume of the proceedings of the Friends of Unsectarian Education prior to that meeting. Dr. Tempest Andbbson said tbe resolution he had to propose was so Belf-evident tilt he should not need to say much in its support It was that in view of the near election of a School Board in York this meeting desires to record it opinion that the paramount object to be kept iu view in the election and tfw administration of a Board Is to secure and maintain a high standard of educational efficiency." (Applause.) The resolution was then put to the meeting, and declared to be carried unanimously. Mr.

John Bellebbt, J.P., moved "Tiiat this meeting approves of the scheme of arrangement with tbe Denominational Committee." Mr. Joseph Rowntbbb seconded the adoption of tbe resolution. Mr. G. Mastos said he noticed an omission in the resolution with regard to the parties between whom the arrangement had been made.

It was an arrangement between the friends ot denominational education, or rather a section as represented by the School Extension Committee, and between a certain number of gentlemen who were the friends of unsectarian education. lie wished to point out that there were people who, sport from being either Unsectarians of Denom-inationists, were ratepayers and who would have to pay the piper, and therefore tbey ought to have the privilege of choosing the tune. (Apulause.) It would be a very nice and very happy family, he was quite sure, if that arrangement could be carried out but, be thought, after the way in which that question of a School Board had been brought to the front, it was exceedingly advisable that the ratepayers, as a body, should have the opportunity of expressing their views. (Applause.) He did not know of any better method than that of undergoing a contest. Mr.

Jambs Cuwpbb moved on amendment to the effect that that meeting would accept of no Board that did not contain one bona fide working man representative selected by workmen themselves. The Chairman thought the amendment would come better after the next resolution, and this recommendation was adopted. Mr. Butlbb followed up the remarks made by-Mr. Manton as regarded the position of the ratepayers.

If tbe general public were interested in a matter of that magnitude, why did not the Lord Mayor caU a town's meeting (applause) where all tbe names of the candidates could be submitted? If they where obliged to have a School Board they (the ratepayers) had a right to choose the members. (Applause.) Mr. T. Wilkinson said it wis absurd to cast the charge upon them that they wanted to dictate to the city. They had to consider whether they would meet the other side in the spirit which animated the denominational party and agree jo an arrangement by which the city should oe saved the cost of a contest, which would be rrom '200 to 300.

and would stir up religious bitterness aud recriminations. If thev decided that a contest was necessary he would meet it cheerfully. The que stion was would they get as good a Board in the interests of the poorer children of the city by that arrangement as they should by a contest, and he trusted everyone would vote on that issue, and in the interest of education, economy, and religious peace and harmony. (Applause.) The resolution was carried, there being only a dozen dissentients. Mr.

J. Bull BUSY then proposed that the five unsectarian candidates for toe School Board.be Mr. Councillor Dickenson, Mr. William Johnson, Mr. W.

W. Morrell, Mr. Councillor Procter, and Mr. Henry Tennant. Mr, Cowpbb withdraw his amendment.

Tbe resolution was then put to the meeting by Mr. Bellerby and carried unanimously. Ou the proposition of Mr. Chablss Seller, seconded by Mr. Aid.

Empson, a cordial vote of thanks was accorded to the chairman, and the meeting terminated. RATEPAYERS' DEFESTCE ASSOCIATION. At a special committee held on Tuesday, it was unanimously resolved That action should be taken by this association with a view to the suitable representation of the ratepayers on the School Board of York, and that one or mnre candidates be nominated accordingly by the association." MEETING OF THE CHURCH PARTY A large and influential meeting of the Church party of York was held in the Church Institute on Wednesday last, the chair being taken by the Dean of Y'ork. Tbe business of the meeting was to receive the report of the sub-committee appointed to select the names of candidates for the School Board. The Chairman gave expression to the great importance of avoiding a contest, and said that he trusted that the meeting would be unanimous, and waive any individual feeling so as to obtain a united vote.

Mr. Mackay having explained the great difficulty the sub-committee (had experienced in selecting gentlemen of whose eligibility and acceptance there could be no doubt, mentioned that amongst those who had been communicated with, but who bad declined to be nominated, were the Dean of York, Mr. J. F. Taylor, Mr.

Thomlinson-Waiker. Mr. Perkins, Mr. Glutton, Mr. Wilfred Thoaison, Mr.

T. F. Wood, Captain Lindberg, Mr. Cobb, Mr. Cowling, Mr.

B. Dent, Mr. Milward, and Mr. Border. The sub-committee, however, would now submit the names of ten gentlemen to that meeting.

Two gentlemen present thereupon expressed their unwillingness to become candidates, and consequently two were substituted in tueir places. On a scroll being taken the following five received the highest number of votes Mr. Mackay, the Rev. Canon Argles, Mr. H.

V. Scott, the Rev. H. L. Clarke, and the Rev.

G. II. Hewison. In consequence, however, of a resolution having been passed at the previous meeting, that the Ave candidates should consist of two clergymen and three laymen, the Rev. G.

H. Hewison and the Yen. Archdeacon Crosthwaite. who were fifth and sixth on the vote being taken, were withdrawn, and the seventh in rotation, Mr. J.

R. Wood, was constituted the fifth candidate. Dr. Swansea. Mr.

Dodsworth, and Mr. Buckle were the three others nominated. Resolutions were subsequently passed pledging the meeting to support these gentlemen in conjunction with the five candidates adopted by the non-sectarian party. With reference to the independent candidature of Mr. Wragge, we understand that he has expressed his unwillingness at present to disturb the harmony existing between the Church party and the Non-sectarian party.

There is ho wever some possibility that two candidates will hi brought out by the "Ratepayers' Association," as at a meeting on Tuesday night the following resolution was passed That action should be taken by this Association with a view to the suitable representation of the ratepayers on the School Board of York, and that one or more candidates be nominated accordingly by the Association." An intimation was also sent by thesecretary to Mr Mackay that if two seats on the Board were not placed at the disposal ot the Ratepayers' Association, candidates would be brooht out to contest them. We have, hoover, since been informed that great difference of opinion, exists amongst the members of tbe association, and that the above resolution was not an unanimous one. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IN YORK The report of the School Attendance Committee shows that the number of children on the rolls in 1887 was 10,329. and in 1888 10,525, this giving an increase of 1596 of school age, and a decrease of 47 under five years old, of which there were 1,101 and 1.051 respectively. During the year 343 parents have: been summoned the committee for neglectins to send thir children (415) to school.

After carefully considering etch case, 140 summonses were directed to i issued, with the following results: 5 parents or guardians were fined; 77 orders were made; 10 children sent to truant schools; 14 children sent to industrial schools and 34 cases were adjourned. The echool fees paid by the Guardians during the year amounted to 421 14s. Id. 062 2s. 40.

has been paid during the same period for the maintenance and expenses of York children in industrial and truant school HOLLOWirt ODtTMEST AMD fsvoured by circumstances or se t.irtiriwl enable them to pass nnsrsthc men season, with catarrhs. ui everywhere abounding, it should urn Hotlorfay's Ointment, diligently checks the v.orat ssssiJts rf these wards off niore grave and ai-e and lungs. The truth thi, unquestioned in the face ot thon-mrts oi living witnesses, who i-er. -l. de.i,.

possil.le benente from tbis sufferings were appalling, aud tuou-latiw -disheartening. Beth sullenly, I cannot he was my son's, who taught him. But 1 know what 1 must do, I muit I know I must do that he speaks in my son's voice I must I don't want to do that but I mutt hi is not a human b- ing -though but I must 1 am sure I must soon I mist drive away the voice Mr. i erbert and his companion passed into the street, end continue 1 on their way in silence. No.

43: No. 33 I do believe there's something at the very house," exclaimed Am. Toppin. Isn't it So. 13, Sir, where that griip is in the roadway?" It was indeed No.

13, the house in front of which those few idlers were assembled. Different altogether from the far en 1 of the street, ain't it, Sir!" remarked Mr. Toppin. Much gayer up here." Ttey turned in'o the vestibule of No. 13.

The conaeige, in a rugged blouse was arranging a row of red tlower-Dots. As Detective Toppin spoke to him, bis eyes fell he listened with a bemused expression, bis regard fixed ou the floral ornament of Air, Toppin's coat the coarse red geranium. M. Allen? demanded Mr. Toppin, laconically.

The man stopped and adjusted the row of red flower-pots, 'iwo men, loitering at the entracce, stared at the visitors, then at eajh other, and snalcd. Mr. leppin repeated his demand. Well wbat answered the rail), roug lie lives here what storey situ storey." The visitors acvr towaris the gloomy staircase, post the gloomy lodye. The cmcietge allowed them to reecb the foot of the stairs.

But. jou cannot hiiu," then announced the covet' nje he can't receive any He look, round at the two unltemi-t women loitering in the doorway, and laug'utd with them noise.est.ly. is he at home? At home Oh, he is at home f-peak plainly, ouons," cried Mr. Toppin, retracing his stej. s.

1 am a member of the litglish Surete." La belle ft was one of the women who made the sarcastic comment. Well, then." said tee man, after a quick glance at Lis interlocutor" Go and see the "The Commissiiy Why? What has happened'-" 1 am to answer no questions." Mr. Toppm would have consulted his cm-panicn, but the latter had turned hastily awav. And no one is to go into the room," added the lodg-keeper, beginning to trim his plants. "I see." Mr.

jppin slowly tossed his head. Mt'damet," said he, to the loiterers at the entrance, we don't live in the rue Cain with impunity, do we," "When we are foreigners, we stay in our own country," retorted the younger of the two. A good-looking fellow," remarked the elder, in only half an aside "de la force: what I call a Man! This was T.T. Different from the long simpleton upstairs oh, la la la Not so tall quite, but more distinguished and better looking tecrou It was T. T.

who was distinguished. Oh, for distinction the other He has new gloves, and besides But what's the matter with him Perhaps a member of the dead one's family." hat do you say, then. Sir demanded Toppin, impatiently. A call on the Coxiissary And so the end had come Death had preceded them. A day's delay, and it was death that greeted them.

One day's delay Is this on my head might I have "averted this On whose head was this When did when did it happen asked Mr. Herbert, aloud. How do I know answered the concierge. Ask the Commissary." Eh bien, mon meu.r," observed Mr. Toppin, if you think that's the way to earn five-franc pieces, you're nicely mistaken "When people have five-franc pieces to gi responded the man deliberately," they give them tbey don't talk about tlem." Mr.

Herbert plunged his hand into his pojket. KOj no, Sir," exclaimed Toppin, in English, this man may be implicated We'll go rouad st once to the Commissary of the quart ir." To be continued. THE IMPROVEMENTS AT YORK THEATRE. In the report of the Estates Committee, which will be presented to the City Council on Monday evening next, there is a report of the City Surveyor which states that the whole of the works sanctioned by the Council on the 18th April, 1888, for improved means of exit from the theatre, and fire extinguishing appliance for the protection of the public in the event of a panic or an outbreak of firs, have been most satisfactorily carried out by the contractors. The amount sanctioned by the Council for these works was 1,520.

After allowing credit to the value of 49 19s. 4d. for old materials taken from the building, the actual ota! of the whole of these work3 is ecu i beins a on 'he estimate of s. fed. The above mentioned actual cost of works, although 84 7s, 8d.

below the estimate, covers extra works, including the cost ot pro-yiciGg automatic tireextinguishiag sprinklers for the auditorium as well as to the unsc-mium, Ac iB 'h bating. Sec. of the valuo of snout k.J-1 which may be explained by saying carrying out the works economy was euected wberever possible without saentijing efficiency at the same time the w'vile or the improvements originally set forth have bean most thoroughly carried out. 'nllar from Rcma Debility. Lost Kidney Diseases, 4c.

A treatise star-ton treatment, bv local cure without Stomach sealed, pot free, upon MAiisT03 aaaaDY com 1 i. 108 Sssraca is tbe original and imitations, insist on iving Dr V. i. Vlttand tis.Se msrk, i on fib 41I The Acomb Drainage Question. At th monthly meeting of the Great Ouseburn Rural Sanitary Authority on Monday, Mr.

Paver-Crow presiding, a letter having been read from the Public Works Loans Board, and also one from the Local Government Board with regard to the borrowing of 325 in order to defray the additional cost in connection with the drainage of Acomb, it was resolved to apply to the Public Works Loan Board for the loan of the above amount, at 8. per the loan to be repaid within 14 years. The Clerk produced a contract and bond duly executed by Francis N. Simpson, of Burton Leonard, who has been given the tender for the above work. A letter was read from Mr.

George Ellis, of Atomb, baking for an explanation as to why this tender was accepted in preference to that of Mr. Kay, of Acomb, which was 47 19s. less, he having noticed in the York Herald at the time that Simpson's tender was accepted. Without discussion on the matter, the letter was laid oh the table, the clerk stating tb at he had written acknowledging the receipt of the same A letter was read from Mr. Thomlinson, assistant overseer at Acomb, enclosing the names of six persons elected at a meeting of the ratepayers as a parochial committee.

Cbubch op Engiand Scbiptubb Rbadbbs Society. A meeting in aid of the York Church of England Scripture Readers' Society was held at the Mansion House, on Monday afternoon. The Archbishop of York presided. There were also present, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, the Blunt, tho Rev. Canon Fausset, Aid.

Sir J. Terry and Lady Terry, a number of the Clergy, and Mr. T. Peters. The Archbishop obsereved that the work of taat particular society had contracted to very small dimensions, and though it was doing really a great service, it was apparent that the public interest in it had somewhat declined.

The balance-sheet of the society showed how much thev were in need of greater interest and better The society bad left 670 in North-Eaatern Railway preference stock, and from that thev derived an income of 26 Is. In the past year they sold out stock to the value of 150 for they had between 800 and 900 worth before and thsy were now practically living upon capital. Supposing that they went on having now paid oil that debt, which lay upon them with a heavy weight they would, at the present rate of income and expenditure, have a deficit of from 16 to 18 every year, and they would have to draw upon their capital to meet that. Let them see wbat that society did for York. In that city there was a very large number of parishes, and their Income was extremely small and inadequate, and whereas everyone would, he thought, admit that there ought to be in every town church a curate to assist the incumbent, none of these York parishes could afford an incumbent out of the endowment, as some country parishes could, and many of them had no hope of securing one.

The scripture readers maintained by tbe society were only two in number, and they ministered on the whole in fight necessitous parishes, and, therefore, though the numbers seemed to be very small, when they looked more closely into it, the usefulness of those two agents was by no means small. The Word of God was tbe common possession, not only of the Church of England, but of all denominations of Christian people (hear, hear none of them thrust aside professedly the Word of God. That being so one watched jealously anything that interfered with the personal authority of that Word over individual hearts, and he was himself a little afraid that the habit of Bible-reading had rather diminished (hear, hear), and many a clergymen would fain, if he could, often do more to inculcate the habit of Bible-reading and Bible study. He was afraid, however, that the hurried habits or the time, and the amount of literature of every kind, especially the great number of little books taken from Holy Scripture had, taken together, considerably displaced the Word of Gcd from the position it once occupied. A votu of tuanks to Lis Grace terminated the meeting.

choose subjects and language. She sets little or no value on intricate plots or "line writing," no novelist having ever obtained an enduring reputation by those means, and she eschews the ologies" and "isms" as gonerally mischievous in fiction, and probably beyond her own powers. She aims to please and interest her readers, and to have always a wholesome effect on their minds and a feeling of friendship towards her creations. Her latest book, Harvest," which is to be published in February by the Hansom Cab Publishing Company, is a somewhat new departure, aa she draws her characters in the midst of the London artistic world instead of in a garrison town. S.

Winter" was born iu York 13th, 1856, and is theonly daughter of the late Rev. H. V. Palmer, who at the time of his death was rector of St. Margaret's.

York. He was a descendant of the Palmers, of Wingham, through Sir Roger Palmer (Lord Castlemame). Prior to taking holy orders, he was tor some time an officer in the Royal Artillery, and his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were also officers in the English army. His great-grandmother was Hannah Fntchard, the celebrated actress of last century, to whose memory a monument was erected, by public subscription, in Westminster Abbey, close to that of Shakespeare. Miss Palmer was married at Fulford, in 1884, to Mr.

Arthur Stannard, a civil engineer, and bas since lived at Putney. She is now a familiar figure in literary and artistic circles and her At Homes at the Cedars-attended as they are by many of the brightest ornaments of the world of art and letters may be numbered amongst the most pleasant reumim of London society. Mrs. Stannard has had four children the eldest, a daughter, bom on Christmas Day, 1884, and christened Audrey Noel the second also a girl died shortly after birth and the last two are twins hoy and girl both of whom are called after their mother's favouritechar-acte'rs in her own novels EiiotCardella -Cavalry Life and Violet Mignon Booties' Baby respectively. Her first three books, Cavalry Life," Regimental Legends," and Booties' Baby," were written in York, but all the others, have been written in London since her marriage.

As a writer she is far less prolific now than formerly, as her natural desire to maintain her position induces her to give more time and thought to all she writes, notwithstanding the temptation to write more to Bupply the great demand for her work. A new original play, which, with commendable thoroughness, she has re-written several times, bas been "tiniehed" during her stay here: that this may. on its production, prove a hit, a palpable hit," will be the wish of her many admirers, amongst whom, in the front rank, is "STILUS." lork, January 28, 1830. Lord Moccrieff, who recently retired from the Scottish bench, is said to be employing his well-earned rest in writing his recollections. There was an extraordiary scene in Steinway Hal).

New Y'ork, on Tuesday, during a concert by Gilmore's band. Someone shouted Play Boulanger's March." The band started the stirring strains, wbich were almost drowned in the cheers of the audience. Many of them stood on the chairs waving their hats and handkerchiefs and demanding encores until tha musicians were breathless. I n. db Joxi w's Lioht-Briwn Cod Liveb On In Vi OF L- 11DBE' ITS EFFICACT Is CXKQOAIJja).

Saoj-. late M-niical Officer of ku. .33 and BiQomsbursr, writes; "In badly Dr. de Jongh a CoJ Liver Oil is invslu-' with ti td or three tea-spoonfuls voting child astonishing. The weight waight mi the Oil swallowed, or erally like the taste of Dr.

de JTongh's it (riven them often cry more," -ttted Imperial H-ilf-mntt. 6d. Pinu. 9s- hy all sl- ajs ii ad 0, High HoUVxu. Lduu.

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