The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-12 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Mr. T. M. Healy, Nationalist, was elected on Satin.
day, without opposition, for North Longford.
General Sir Charles M‘Gregor, of the Bengal Staff
Corps, died at Cairo on Saturday.
The peblic inquiry into the cause of the fatal fire in
the People's Park, Madras, on the evening of December
BO has been coneladed, with the result that the calamity
is declared to have been purely accidental. The police
are absolved from all blame, but it is added that the
arrangements for the prevention of fire are inefficient.
A youth named Foxton, who was travelling by the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from Huddersfield
towatds Sheffield on Saturday, opened the carriage
door and, overbalancing himself, tell upon the metals.
It is believed that another train passed over him, as
one of his legs was severed, and the other was fractured.
The youth died in the evening.
The minority (97) who supported Mr. Cremer's
motion on Saturday morning against the prolonged
occupation of Egypt was made up of 44 English, 43
Irish, and 10 Scotch members. Mr. Shaw-Lefevre and
Mr. Caine were the only members of the late Govern-
ment who supported Mr. Oremer.
In the course of an inaugural address to the students
of the Westminster and Southlands' Training Colleges
on Saturday, the Rev. Dr. Rigg pointed out how
IVesleyans had been affected by the progress of edu-
cation during the last 40 years. He claimed that
victory had increasingly shown itself on the side of
Christian education, and urged the need for maintain-
ing Wesleyan day schools.
Comte d'Aubigny, Counsellor to the French Em-
busy, presiding at the annual dinner in aid of the
funds of the French Hospital and Dispensary on
Saturday, expressed his belief that M. Grevy had all
the qualities necessary for keeping the French nation
from running into danger.
The annual football matches between England and
Ireland took place on Saturday, one at Dublin under
Rugby rules, when the Irishmen were victorious, and
the other at Sheffield under Association rules, resulting
in a victory for the English team.
rhe four Marines and ship's cooper who broke into
a store on board the flagship Duke of Wellington, at
Portsmouth, were on Saturday morning sentenced at
that port—the Marine on duty at the door of the store
receiving 90 days' hard labour, another Marine being sen-
tenced to 42 days' hard labour, two other Marines, who
tGok the captain's boat to row ashore, to 28 days each,
and the cooper was disrated, and had 90 days' grog
and leave stopped. The ship's steward's assistant, who
was in charge of the store, was convicted of conniving,
aod sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment, while his
promotion, received on Tuesday morning, was can.
celled.
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had been engaged two years, after whichT they had
differences, the defendant, it was alleged, not caring for
her four chiidren, accusing her of being extravagant in
her ways, and not exactly meeting his views in other
things. A verdict for plan:L. till' was returned, the jury
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dred residents in the neighbourhood, was handed to the
judge, who said such offences were usually punished
with penal servitude. It was of the highest importance
to commercial life that such offences should be severely
Punished, and he could not pass a lighter sentence than
he had done.
On Saturday a new movement in aid of Irish agri•
culture was inaugurated. With the view to supply
the deficiency of Irish barley, leading brewers and dis-
tillers have resolved to supply to farmers seed of the
primest variety at a price that will bring it within the
reach of all growers. This they propose to do through
the agency of local malsters and buyers. They have
established a guarantee fund to cover the difference in
cost between the market rates of seed and the price
to farmers, which has .been provisionally fixed at 148.
net cash per barrel. Every farmer can get seed iu
quantities not exceeding five barrels from a local
mister or barley buyer, and instructions as to the best
method of cultivating the crops will be furnished to
every purchaser.
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On Saturday the contractors for the exhumation of
the bodies and remains from the burial-ground on the
north-eastern side of the Tower of London received in-
telligence from the City of London Corporation of
having obtained the sanction of the Home Secretary to
remove t le remains to the City of London Cemetery at
Ilford. The old disused burial-ground has been closed
for burials for a number of years, and the land being re.
quired for the Middlesex approach to the new Tower-
bridge, now in course of construction, the authorities
gave orders to erect a high hoarding, enclosing the
grcund on the north-east side, near the site forreetlY
occupied by the Develin Tower, ta Iron Gate.