SCOTLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 1382, 25 May 1878, Page 4

SCOTLAND.

Agricultural operations are becoming very active in Skye.

A large number of new buildings are being erected in Broadford.

Cookery classes have been opened by Provost Swan in the Corn Exchange, Kirkcaldy. New streets and roads are projected in Inverness, at an «tpenditure of £31,000. The Edinburgh Working Men's Club and Institute had an income last year of £1020 Ss. The Glasgow School Board reports 45 schools on the roll, with 28,347 scholars on the register.

A public demonstration in favour of the Permissive Bill has been held in Portobello.

The Leith School Board reports 4391 children on the roll, and an attendance of 3372.

The visitors to the Edinburgh Museum of Science »od Art have now reached 4,179,615.

Ooupar Angus Police Commissioners have resolved that the footways in George street be laid with concrete and asphalt e instead of stone.

The libel against the Rev. Fergus Ferguson has been finally adjusted And accepted by the Glasgow IT. P. Presbytery. It consists of six charges. Property was offered for sale in Glasgow on the 14th ult. to the amount of £120,000. Of this there was sold buildings amounting to about £15,000.

A crowded meeting has been held in the City Hall, Glasgow, to protest against the establishment of a Homish Hierarchy in Scotland, as hostile to civil and religious liberty.

The master joiners of Edinburgh and Leith have intimatod to the Operative Joiners' Association that the wages of competent workmen will be reduced to 7h& per nonr.

The Glasgow U.P. Presbytery has discussed the conduct of the newspapers in publishing reports of their private meetings, «nd_ passed a resolution of indignation against them.

The Guion Company have contracted Xnth John Elder and Co. for the construction of a steamer on the Clyde which will be next in siza to th 9 Great Eastern, having a registered tonnage of between 5000 and 6000 ton*, and being about 600 feet long.