>From Wigtown Free Press 19th April, 1888 BIRTHS IRVINE, Male - B28/3/1888 - At 23 Bloomfield Street, New York, on the 28th ult., the wife of William Irvine, carpenter, of a son. M'KIE, Female - B12/3/1888 - At Keoia, Iowa, U.S. America, on the 12th ult., Mrs Alexander M'Kie, of a daughter. MARRIAGES HETHERINGTON John T. - M29/3/1888 - At the residence of Peter M'Laren, Chicago, U.S.A., on the 29th ult., by the Rev. Herrick Johnson, John T. Hetherington, architect, Chicago, to Jane Charteris, second daughter of Alexander Welsh, Newton-Stewart, Scotland. DEATHS SMELLIE, Hermann - D1/2/1888 - Lost overboard, on the 1st February, from ship Borrowdale, on voyage from Liverpool to San Francisco, Hermann youngest son of the late Captain William Smellie, Stranraer.