A GAMEKEEPER SHOT: An affray - with poachers shortly after midnight on Christmas Eve, in the Grimsthorpe preserves of the Earl of Anca.ster, near Swinstead. Four gamekeepers in the Coke Hills Plantation were standing at the wood corner trying to locate shots which they had heard

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The Northern SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1898. THE NEW YEAR. THE present issue of our paper will be the last for the year of grace 1898. Nationally and locally, it has been a year on which it is possible to look back with a considerable amount of satisfaction. In spite of wars and dis

Mellrridge people will subsoribe.--On the sggesan of Mr Herdman the matter deferred till next meeting. that the members might oonsider it. S.

TO TEI EDITOR. Sta,—As one that is In sympathy with the new market that has been established at lialtwhistle, will you kindly allow a small space in your valuable paper to throw out a hint or two to those whom this market is likely to be benefloial, the producer and the individu

FROM GREAT MINDS. It is not whist we intend, but what we do makes tiA useful. Right is always noble, truth is always divine. —J. Hamilton. How many indulge in a hope which they dare examine? Truth is not be contemplated, but to be dons. —F. W. Robertson. What we truly and earnest

CONCERT AND PRESENTATION. The people Park Village enjoyed a great treat on Christmas Eve at the Wesleyan chapel. It took the form of a grand concert and • presentation to Miss Dorothy Watson, daughter of Mr Edward Watson of this village, who has left home to fill an important po

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Ma. Gxosox WILSON, whose det is reported from Hawick, was a man of remarks %energy. In the commercial disaster of 1875 he loot something like £150,000, all, in fact, he possessed. However, he set himself to meet the situation, and he died a very wealthy man. He was the first pro