). Has the la "gest and hest Stock of CH t NA, CRYSTAL and SIONEWARE ever shown in Kirkwall, consist ing of a variety of Magnificent DINNER AND TEA SERVICES, Ssavtcze. TOILET AND BED-ROOM SETS, BTJTTER JARS, and MILK BASINS, .te., whivi will besold upon tlie•Most Moderate Terms.

lut fd asillimaq. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1164. EARL GIIANVILLB has issued a circular to Liberal Peers, in which he states that their presence in the House of Lords "will be specially important" when the Franchise Bill is brought to the Upper House. Mr A. G. Flamm:, the manager of

In reply to a question from Lord Middleton. Lord THURLOW said it would not be in accordance with law to make a return of duty in Wm .emse of Irish .states which had paid duty prior Is the Act of 1881 on net rentals which had since bees largely reduoed by the Land Commission, for

of .OGS, DEALS, BATTENS, MAST AND GAI SPARS. SCANTLINGS of all sizes. BOARDS, Of all thicknesses. PRINS PITCHNNE, SWRICDISH AND MEMEL Locus, OAK, ELK, ASH, BIRCH, OAK CROOKS LARCH LOGS, PLANKS, AND BOARDS IP CART-SHAFT BLOCKS. FLOORINGS AND LININGS, Of alt Tljicknedoe4 Manufactu

and Stationers, Albert Street, Kirkwall, have always on band a large assortment of the above Views, the following:- I.—ORKNEY. KIRKWALL, from the West (Three Views). KIIIKWALL, from the South-West. KIRKWALL, from the yrs. KIRKWALL HARBOUR (Two Views). KIRKWALL PIER (Two 'Views).

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A WKEK had passed away, and nothing but a lingering, agonising death seemed to be in store for our poor castaways—or for such of them as still survived their terrible sufferings. Seven days of alternate broiling sunshine and sleep-defying shadow, of pitiless glassy calm and tant