The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-08-29 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Prince and
Princess Henry of Battenberg, the children of the
Duke and Duchess of Connaught, and the Hereditary
Grand Duke of Hesse, left Osborne on Monday evening
for Balmoral.
The Prince of Wales arrived at Odcle on Sunday
evening in the Osborne, and took part in an excursion
on the Sandven Lake on Monday.
It is believed at Simla that Sir Charles Macgregor's
appointment to the command of the Punjaub Frontier
Force foreshadows the formation of a separate military
command for the whole Afghan frontier.
Intelligence has reached General Grenfell at Assouan
of the occupation of New Dongola by 4000 Dervishes,
with 800 rifles and seven guns.
It has been semi-officially announced in Paris that
the French Government now considers the Olivier Pain
incident closed.

Lord Car narvon has instructed the Irish Under-
Secretary to write a letter expressing disapproval of the
course taken by Mr. Clifford Lloyd, a permanent
officer of the Crown, in publishing without official
sanction a communication raising questions of funda-
mental and Constitutional importance.
It is officially announced that the Board of Trade has
accepted the unanimous recommendation of the Load
Line gommittee, and has furnished its surveyors with
instructions to act accordingly. The nevi- system is
concurred in by Lloyd's Register Office and the Liver-
poi I Registry.
Another naval sham fight took place at Whale Island
on Monday, and was witnessed by Prince George of
Wales and Admirals Lord Alcester and Sir G. Hornby.
It is reported from Dublin that the efforts of the
-committee charged with the reconstruction of the
Munster Bank have proved unsuccessful.
Mr. John Williams was charged at the Thames
Police-court, on Monday, with causing a street obstruc-
tion by addressing a large crowd on Socialistic subjects
and the magistrate bound him over in the sum of £2O
to keep the peace for six months. It was stated that
the Socialists were in communication with the Home
Secretary regarding these street meetings.
It is fasted that the continued dryness -of the weather
is vary seriously affecting the Liverpool water supply,
and though salt water is now used for the streets and
the consumption of the fresh economised in every way,
there is serious alarm at the smallness of the quantity
at the reservoirs. Some weeks ago an intermittent
supply was resorted to. At the last meeting of the
water committee a further curtailment, extending from.
ten in the morning to two in the afternoon, was resolved
upon.
Lord Edward Cavendish, M.P., has laid the memorial
stone of a Primitive Methodist chapel at Matlock. The
ceremony, he said, was interestfng as giving evidence
of the great work being carried on by the various
religious bodies of the country. Though of late years
much had been done to improve the moral and spiritual
welfare of all classes, a great deal remained to be accom-
plished, and he th3ught it was mainly to the vigoro,is
efforts of ministers of the Gospel that we must look
for refining the morals of the multitude.

At the inquest at Peterborough on the body of Count
Hipolito Finat, deputy for the province of Seville, who
was found shot on the 12th inst., it was shown that the
deceased left Paris on the 11th inst. with £24 and a
gold watch and chain in his possession. When found
there were no valuables upon him. He had expres;ed
an intention to commit suicide, as he was under the
delusion that he would lose his fortune. An open ver-
dict of "Found shot" was returned.
Sedbergh parish church (dedicated to St. Andrew),
one of the oldest ecclesiastical edifices in North York-
shire, has been restored at a cost of £4OOO, nearly the
whole of which has been subscribed.
A good deat of excitement was caused in Durham
on Monday by the report that two important col-
lieries in the, county t.re about to be closed in conse-
quence of the depression of trade. They are the Tin.
dale Emily Colliery, near West Auckland, belonging
to Sir Joseph Pease, and employing about 400 hands;
and "%Yardley Colliery, belf,nging to Messrs. Palmer,
iron shipbuilders on the Tyne, and employing over 800
persons. •
The Superintending Engineer to the Weymouth and
Channel Island Steam-packet Company contradicts the
statement that the Brighton recently burst one of her
cylinders off Guernsey, and bad subsequently to steam
with one engine and one paddle wheel.
Reports from the East and West Kent hunting
countries, as well as from the district worked by the
Tickham hounds speak hopefully of the'coming season.
Cub hunting will begin about the usual period, and the
harvest will be entirely over by the time the packs com-
mence operations. Foxes are fairly numerous in the
various districts; and there is no lack of enthusiasm
for the sport on the part of tenant farmers, who, not-
withstanding the agricultural depresa.on, continue to
support fox-hunting.
In North Wales two tourists have already lost their
lives, while Mr. Paget, the Hammersmith police magis-
trate, experienced a most fortunate escape near the
Aber Waterfalls. Another fatality has now occurred
to Miss Marzialls, a young lady from London, aged six-
teen, on a visit to this neighbourhood. At the inquest
it was stated that Miss Marzialls and her friends had
made up a plrty to visit the spot known as "Hugh
LloYd's Pulpit." A precipice there overhangs the river
flowing beneath, and while gazing down Miss Marzialls
fell over and nlighted on hEr head on the rocks. Her
injuries were of a dreadful character, and death was
apparently instantaneous. A slate quarryman volun•
teered to recover the body. Ropes were fastened
together, and he was lowered to the corpse, which he
eventually brought up. The jury returned a verdict
that "Miss Marzialls was accidentally killed."
A. boat accident, which resulted in the loss of two
lives, occurred in Southampton Water on Monday even-
ing. It seems that two men belonging to the Corps of
Royal Engineers, and attached to the telegraph aervioe
at Southampton for special duty, named Carey (a
native of Dublin) and Joseph Steer, hired a boat and
rowed as far as :Redbridge. They were accompanied
by George Smallbone, a guard on the London and
South-Western Railway, with whom they lodged. In
returning they stood up to change seats, and the boat
capsized. They were seen by some men at a distance
in another boat, and they rowed towards them in time
to rescue Smallbone, but the two Engineers were
drowned.

George Baker, 29, deaf and dumb, was, at the
Uxbridge Petty Sessions on Monday, charged, on re-
mand, with having caused the death of Martha Plum..
ridge, 65, the keeper of a lodging-house in that town.
Dr. Charpentier said he considered the woman's death was caused by stoppage of the heart's action resulting
from shock. There was not the slightest external mark
of violence. She might have died from fright witheut
being touched by the prisoner. The accused was com-
mitted for trial.
Reports from various estates in Bucks, Herts, and
West Middlesex as to the condition and numerical
strength of partridges are, on the whole very disap-
pointing. The hatching time was exceptionally favour-
able, but the drought since May has made food =-
usually scarce, especially on grass lands, and of
the birds that have survived are still far from slims.
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The Maori chief, Hon Ropita, informs the A.borigines
Protection Society that 11,559 Maories have already
joined the Blue Ribbon Army.
The Duke of Cambridge has recently awarded a sum
of nearly £4OO to non-commissioned officers and men of
the Royal Artillery as prizes for skill at arms. The
prizes vary in amount from £4 to £l, and are given for
points obtained in preliminary aid written examina-
tions and in shooting.
Up to Saturday the sum of £39,241 had been 'sub-
scribed towards the fund for the proposed new
Bishopric of Wakefield. In addition to. this the
Bishoprics Act of 1878 assigns £3OO a year to the see,.
or about £lO,OOO if capitalised. In 911 £90,000 is re-
quired.
It is believed in Paris that Prince Hohenlohe, the
new Governor of Alsace-Lorraine will revoke the ordec issued by Herr von Hoffmann, Minister of
,State,
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polling M. Rothan.
At Eton an effort is being made to form a battery of
Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers in connectian with
the headquarters in London.
The Duke of Devonshire has presented the living of
Westham, Sussex' to the Rev. Howard Hopieh late
rector of Folkington.