m. M •^.^nr> ..«/ 'V.y 1. Vv y XHK &Feat Scoteh Wineey Manufactured exjaressly for JOHN FORBKS, Itiverness, in New Stripes and Checks, also in White and all Colours, IS the: idkal. fabric for Ladies' Blouses, Children's Dresses, Gent's Shirts and Pyjamas, and every kind of Day, Night and Underwear, ENDLESS IN WEAR AND POSITIVELY UNSHRINKABLE. 31 inches wide, 1/9 per yard. New Exclusive Weaves. All Fast Colours. Pattern Bunches Free on application to JOHN FORBES Hig^li Street Sc Ingrlis Street INVERNESS. "ESTATE DUTIES.'* Distinctive System OF Assurance. I4OW Premiums. Lo^v Expenses. SCOTTISH PROVIDENT INSXmJTION. AccuHinlated^iFunds jeiceecl £13,750,000. Aberdeen Branch : 166 UNION STREET Inspector of Agencies (Northern District :) WILLIAM FARQUHARSON. rJAMES D. MACKIE. Local Secretaries j^j^^^j^j) TENNANT. AGENTS IN INVERNESS; Messrs ANDERSON & SHAW, W.S, Messrs JAMES ROSS & BOYD, Solicitors, DAVID ROSS, Solicitor, 63 Church Street, Head Office—No. 6 St. ANDREW SQUARE, EDINBURGH : ® Dortaem $ls$urancc ConqKini^ l2ead Offices flbeMeen S London FIRE. LIFE. ACCIDENT. Accumulated Funds, £6,782,900 FIRK BRAKCH Large Keserves, Prompt and equitable settlement of Losses. Surveys made and rates quoted free of charge. I^IFK BRAKCH The "with profits" section has many features attractive to Assurants, Amongst these are THE STRONG RESERVES.—Very stringent Eeserves, on a 2| per cent, basis, have been set aside. THE LOW EXPENSES.—The expenditure is restricted to 10 per cent, of the premiums. ALL PROFITS TO ASSURED.— Policy-holders receive the entire profits. They thus obtain the advantages of a Mutual Society, and in addition the further security afforded by a Proprietary Ofiice. ACCIDKKX BRANCH In this branch Personal Accident, "Workmen's Compensation (including Domestic Servants), Fidelity Guarantee, Plate Glass, Third Party, Burglary, and other forms of Insurance Business are transacted on favoiirable terms^ ABERDEEN OFFICE—1 Union Terpace, THOMAS KYD, Resident Manager ROBERT MACKAY, Secpetapy Established 50 Years. Telephone No. i6y2. PAUL CAMPBELL john mccabb), BOOT AND SHOE WAREHOUSE, 1 HIGH SXRKKX, INVKRNKSS. Ladies American Boots & Shoes Stocked in Sizes & Half Sizes. Depot for the Far-Famed Agent for the Celebrated WATERPROOF '*K" BOOTS and SHOES, which are 'CINDERELLA' the only really rehable & guaran- BOOTS & SHOES for Ladies^ teed Waterproof Boots & Shoes which we Stock in all Sizes, on the Market. Half Sizes and Four Stocked in all Sizes and Half Sizes Fittings. and Four Fittings. We make all kinds of Ladies' and Gent's Handmade Boots & Shoes for Home & Foreign Wear in our own Workshop. All Opdeps by Post punctually attended to. Repairs Neatly and Promptly Executed. CDe Inuerness Courier, ESTABLISHED 1817. The Oldest and most widely circulated Newspaper in the Highlands. Subscription Rates to any Post-Office in the United Kingdom, I Year, 13s/- ; 6 Months, 6/6 ; 3 Months, 3/3. Payable in advance. Pictures of . Old Inverness By the late P. DELAVAUJLT, Art Master, Royal Academy, Inverness. PRICE- £2 2s. Application for the remaining Copies should be made at once to the Publishers, Robt. Carruthers &. Sons, ''Courier" Office, Inverness D. PETRIE Coal lepcknt and Cclliepy Agent, SUPPLIES THE BEST QUALITIES at the LOWEST PRICES OP OolcOy Ov-icfiu 01:1:08, ILimio, Comon±, In any Quantity. Shooting Lodges supplied during the Season. Large Consumers at Lowest Rates 2 Lofflbard Street, Inverness. PASSENGER AGENCY. Passengers now Booked by all the First-ClabS Lines to New Yoplt, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, and all parts of the World. *r H E PUBLIC SUPPLY STORES AND ^ PRODUCE MART '5= ARE THE Leading Stores in inverness FOR Teas, Groceries^ Provisions ^ ^ Patent Medicines, and p e^ft ^ Proprietary Goods. At these Stores the Fuhlic have always at their |t^vice Xlie Best Va,lue Possible IN Xlie Best Groods Possible / ir ^ IN / /; Xlie Best Condition Possible AND AT Xbe K^o'^vest Pirice Possible. PLEASE TRY A SAMPLE ORDER. Only Address in Inverness— Public Supply Stores, \\ 43 HisH St., INVERNESS. UNSURPASSED VALUE IN THE . 5 FOLLOWING SPECIALITIES '^""^^- AT THE J Public Supply Stores. Choicest Ceylon Tea^ Is 6d per IK • " A Luxury that never Palls." Magnificent Indian Tea, Is 9d pef lb. " Be Wise and Taste." SAMPLES OF ABOV^ ON APPLICATION, '/ // Direct Weekly Supplies of CHOICEST DANISH BUTTER. No storing for sake of extra Profit. Enormous Sales all the year round. 4^ Sole Agents in District for WILLIAM LOW and CO.'s famed Gold Medal HAMS and BACON. LINDSAY & LOW'S celebrated BlSCmX?, PRE- etc. ///: SERVES and CONFECTIONS, Supplies received twice weekljij^iyj Public Supply Stores and Produce Mart 43 HIGH STREET, INVERNESS. INVERNESS BURCH DIRECTORY FOR 1907'-19O8 CONTAINING STREET, TRADE, & ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY PLAN OF THE TOWN AND OFFICIAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIST PUBLISHED BY R. CARRUTHBRS & SONS, COURIER OFFICE, INVERNESS. JOHN H. FORSYTH & CO. "Wholesale & Family Wine Merchants i8 Inglis street, INVERNESS. ESTABLISHED 1815. Wines of every description. Liqueurs. Old High- land Whiskies. Fine Old Pale Brandy. Jamaica Rum, Hollands, &c. Bass and Alsopp's India Ale. Barclay Perkin's Imperial Stout. Guinness's Stout. You|»^^1^ 7S Sweet Ale. J. Schweppe & Co.'s Mineral WaterlS ,,. , ic> THK NORTH BRITISH " MERCANTILE ESTABLISHED 1809. Fire—r^ife—Asisiuities Aeeidents to Servants. TOTAL FUNDS exceed £17,800,000 REVENUE, 1906 oyer £4,000,000 Absolute Securits^. I^ibeca,! Cotiditiotis. Px*ompt Settlements. Full Particulars may be had on application to any of the Company's Agencies, or to Chief Ofaces— EDINBURGH : 64 Princes Street. I LONDON : 61 Tlireadneedle Street, E.C. Inverness Branch Office— 14 UNION ST. Resident Secy.- J. D. PINLAYSON. , — — . CONTENTS. OFFICIAL INFORMATION. Page Page, Aerated Water Manufac- Insurance OflBces, &c. xxvii turers' Defence Ass. XXlll International Order of An Comunn Gaidhealach xxii Good Templars . xviii Bible Society's Depot xii Inverness College (Ltd.) xv Board and other Schools XV Inverness-shire Unionist Bowling Clubs xxiv Association . xxi Branch Banks ix Justice of Peace Courts v British Order of Ancient Liberal Association (Burgh) xxi Free Gardeners . Lodge of Royal Ark Building Trades' Federa- Mariners . xvii tion .... XXV Masonic Lodges Caledonian. Canal . viii St John's Kilwinning . xvi Caledonian Banking Coy. viii St John's Friendly Socy. xvii Chess Club . xxiii St Mary's Caledonian . xvii Cameron Barracks xi Batalonish Pass . xvii Cameron Highlanders St Andrew's Royal 1st and 3rd Battalion xi Arch Chapter , . xvii 1st V.B.C.H. xi Medical Practitioners . ix Chamber of Commerce xxi Ness Fishery Board . vi Churches and Clergy xiii Newspapers, &c. xiv Commissary Court V Northern Infirmary . xx Craigneish College XV Northern Meeting . xxi Curling Club . xxiv N.C. Breeding and Fat Custom House vi Show Club . XXV Dentists . X Northern C.C. Club . xxiii Discharged Prisoners' A N.C. Institute for Blind. xix Society xix N.C. Hockey Club . xxiv Donald Fraser Bequest XX N.C, Assets Coy. xxvi Educational Institute xvi Oddfellows(Clachnacuddin) xvii Episcopal Schools . XV Ornithological Association sxv Farmers' Society . XXV Parish Council . iii Fire Brigade . iii Permanent Building Socy. xxvi Forbes Dispensary . XX Philharmonic Choral Funds for Education an Orchestra] Society , xxi Charity , xiv Portree Wool Mill Coy. xxvi Gaelic Society xix Postal Information , xxix Gas Works iii Poor Children's Free Glenalbyn Lodge of Good Breakfasts . xx Templars . xviii Procurators . iv Golf Club xxiv Property Coy., Ltd. xxv Guildry Incorporation XXV Public Library . xvi Harbour Trustees . ii Public Hall Company . xxvii Highland Club xxiii Quarter Sessions . v Highland Railway vii Red Cross of Rome and Do. Literary Society xix Constantino . , xvii Do. Temperance League xviii Registration of Voters . v Highland Horticultural Royal Academy . xiv Society . xviii Royal Scottish Abori- Highland Orphanasre . xx cultural Society . xviii Highland R.G.A. Vols.. x School Board . xv Inland Revenue . vi .. ) CONTENTS, OFFICIAL m¥OEMATIOl!i.— (Continued. Page Pao« School Board (Landward) xvi St Andrew's Working School of Music xxi Men's Club . xxiii Scientific Society and F.C. xix Strathspey & Reel Society xxii Seaforth and Cameron Swimming Bath and Steam Bearer Coy. xii Laundry . xxvi Seaforth & Cameron Brigade xii Technical and Art School xvi Select Choir . • ; xxii Town Band . xxii i Sheriff Court . , . iv Town Council & Committees Sheriff-Officers . v Unionist Association . xxi Society for Prevention of Valuation of Lands, &c. v Cruelty to Animals . xxiv Water Works . iii Society for Prevention of Weights and Measures . vi Cruelty to Children xxii Wine, Spirit & Beer Trade xxiii Soldiers' and Sailors' Working Men's Club . xxiii Families Association xii Y.M.C.A. xiii St Margaret's College . xv Y.W.C.A. xiii STREET LIST. Page PVGB Abban street . 1 Bnice gardens 23 Abertarff road 2 B'lrn road Drummond . 24 Academy street 2 Castle and County Buildings 24 Edward's Court . 4 Castle street . 24 Lyon's court 6 Castle wynd . 29 Albert place , 6 Castle court 29 Alexandra place 7 Cawdor road . 30 May couit . 8 Celt street 30 Anderson street 8 Chapel street . 31 Ann field road . 9 Charles street 32 Ardconnel street 9 Church street 33 Park row 9 Tulloch's close . 34 Ardconnel terrace (E) 10 School lane 37 Ardconnel terrace (W) 11 Clachnaharry and Canal Side 38 Ardross place 11 Crown avenue 40 Ardross street 11 Crown drive . 41 Ardross terrace 12 Crown street . 42 Argyle street . 12 Culduthel road 44 Attadale road 14 Dempster gardens . 45 Ballifeary road 15 Washington court 45 Bishop's road 15 Falcon square 46 Balnain street 17 Denny street . 46 Bank lane 17 Deveron street 48 Bank street 18 Diriebught road 48 Baron Taylor's lane 18 Dores road 48 Beaufort road 19 York drive 48 Bridge street . 20 Bell field Terrace 48 Broadstone park . 21 Fife terrace 49 '. Brown street . 22 York crescent 49 ... CONTENTS. STREET hmT— (Continued.) Page Page Douglas row . 49 Innes street . ' . 84 Drumraond (lower) 50 Island bank . 87 Drummond (upper) 50 Ladies' walk .