The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-08-21 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGIs.t.

Several sharp earthquake shocks has beea ex-
perienced 'in Malta. The motion was vertical.
Mr. Whitney, Secretary of the United States Ad.
mi-ralty, has ordered the construction of a new cruiser,
which is to be the most powerful in the world.
Ic is the intention of German shipowners to compete
with English shipowners for the mail contracts.
Owing to the incessant rainfall during the last tea
days the districts of Cachar and Sylbet, in Assam, are
flooded, and traffic of all kinds is Btopped. Great suffer-
ing prevails among the villagers.
A private in the Royal North Lsincashire Regiment, of
the name of Hartley, committed suicide at the range,
Penally, near Teuby. He was engaged in class firing
and had fired four rounds, when he stepped to the rear.
placed the rifle to his left side, pulled the trigger, and
fell to the ground Dr. Matthias, of Penally, was culled,
but life was extinct.

A fisherman named M'Adam was found burnt to
death on board the fishing smack Eureka, long in
Lowestoft Harbour. Ile appears to have fallen a,leep
with his pipe in his mouth, toe result being that his
clothes took fire, and he sustained fatal injuries. Some
of the planks in his berth were also burnt.
Major Hamilton's auction of the loot taken during
the recent Burmese Expedition has c7ncluded at Cal-
cutta, the total sum realised being about one lalih of
r.pees. The competition foe the various articles was
of a lively character throughout the sale.
A widow lady residing in Newry, while in the act of
removing an old safe, discovered a deposit receipt for
i21)0, which it is supposed had been lying there tor a
number of years unknown to any person. It is Con-
jectured that the receipt had been placed there by the
lady's deceased husband, who had evidently forgotten
all about the matter.

Farm land in East Yorkshire is still very difficult to
dispcse of at anythinz like the prices of a few years
back. One of the best farms in that psrt of Yorkqnre,
at Tibthorpe, containing 335 acres of splendid grass
and arable land, is now in the market, and although
the farmhouse and buildings are of modern construc-
tion, the highest offer yet made for the estate in only
£BO5O.
On Saturday the Archoeolagical Congress in Chester
concluded, many of the members enjoy ing drives to
points of antiquarian interest in the neighbourhood,
and others spending time in examining the treasures dis-
played in a temporary museum in the Town-hall.
. An extensive ooalaeld has been discovered near Mil-
cigno, in Albania, very close to the sea shore. The
coal is stated to be of the best quality and easily acces-
sible

The Erik (whaler), Captain Gray, arrived at Lerwick
on Saturday from North Greenland, with 70 tuna of oil.
The Polar Star arrived on the same day at Dundee
with 610 seals and one whale yieldiog 25 tuns of oil.
The funeral of Mrs. Hamilton, widow of Bishop
Hamilton. took place at Salisbury on Saturday. The
service was choral. The lesson was read by the Rev.
Chancellor Swayne, and at the grate, which is in the
cloisters of the cathedral, Canon Liddon officiated. The
Bishop pronounced the Benediction,and Canon Liduon
preached the funeral sermo:o.
A new branch line to Foxdale from the St. John's
Junction of the Manx Railway system was opened for
traffic on Saturday. The line, which is about two
miles and a half in length, runs in a southerly direction,
through pretty scenery, and will lead ultimately to a
direct connection between the north and Port Erin and
Cas4letown. - _ -

On Saturday Mr. Justice O'ffsgan and Mr. Litton,
two of the Chief Land Commissioners, met at Armagh,
and proceeded with thu hearing of appeals. They
gave decisions in eight cases, seven of which they con-
firmed, and in the other they raised the rent from £9 to
kalP rer year
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Edward W. Tinney, a barrister, living in East
Dulwich, was charged on remand at the Lambeth
Police-court, London, with assaulting a little girl on
Peckham-common. The Metropolitan Board of Works
prosecuted. They pressed to have the prisoner cora-
mitted for trial, one of their chief grounds being that
the common is a great resort of children. Witnesses
were called to show that the prisoner is not in his right
mind. Mr. Chance finally liberated him, accepting two
sureties in £lOO each for his good behaviour.
The financial proposals of the Natal Government
have been published. It is estimated that the deficiency
at the end of the year will be £233,191. The estimates
for 1887 provide for an income of £682,450, and expen-
diture of £756,494. Three new taxes will be proposed
—a land tax, which is expected to yield £22,000; a
house tax, £12,000; and an incorse tax, £17,400; while
the Customs duties are expected to produce £15,000.
The Government proposals are strongly condemned,
and the expectation is that they will not be carried.
Mr. Wilson Barrett commenced his provincial tour
at the Theatre 'Royal, Hull, on Monday night, by
appearing as Hamlet before a most distinguished
audience, the house being filled to the roof. Great
interest and enthusiasm were manifested. The ordinary
prices of admission have been doubled, but all the
seats have been sold for the whole period of the engage-
ment. Mr. Barrett was twice banquetted in the town.
At the Hull Police-court, Charlotte Anderson a
delicate-looking woman was charged with smuggling
131 b. of tobacco from the steamship Hansa, at Hull, on
Sunday. The prisoner was seen leaving the ship with
a quantity of black bread. A Custom House officer
questioned her, and she admitted having 21b. tobacco.
, She was searched, and in a petticoat which appeared to
to have been specially made for smuggling, 131 b. of
tobacco was found. The stipendiary fined the pri-
soner £6 ea., and on leaving the dock the woman felt
in a fit.
Manitoba will this year have a considerable quantity
of wool to export. A large business in this staple is
one of the probabilities of Manitoban trade.
A balloon ascent was made at Geneva at five o'clock
on Sunday afternoon by an aeronaut named DJ
la Tour. Shortly afterwards the baboon, with its occu-
pant, suddenly descended, alighting in a clump of trees,
about 50 yards from the starting point. The aL;ronaut,
however, escaped uninjured. The ascent was witnessed
by upwards of 40,000 persons.
The sexton, upon going into Hadley Church on
Saturday, discovered that it had been recently entered,
and the alms bowl plundered. The thief or thieves,
having scaled some iron railing, wrenched back the
wire guard in front of a stained-glass window in the
south transept, and broke away enough of the window
to admit a man's body. The vestry was entered, but
all the valuables are enclosed in an iron chest of the
thirteenth century, which is locked with a massive key,
which requires a steel bar to turn it. Efforts were next
directed to the receptacle for alms, which consists of a
dwarf gothic column, the top being hollowed out and
covered with a wrought iron band, in which are slits to
receive the alms, and secured by a strong padlock.
Great force must have been used to wrench this off.

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The Revenue cruisers on Saturday evening brought
into Lerwick Harbour the smack Martha, be-
longing to Geestemunde, on suspicion of belonging to
the fleet of "Coopers," which have been fitted out spe-
cially for smuggling in the North Sea. The vessel
was captured by her Majesty's ship Firm, near Fair
Island.

On Saturday, at Croydon, William Brown, carpenter,
was committed for trial for burglariously entering the
residence ot Mr. Christopher Robinson, at The Lawn,
Commonside, Mitcham, and stealing therefrom a clock,
valued at two guineas. The prisoner offered to sell the
clock to a gipsy named Ball, and, in explaining how he
became possessed of it, he told him that he carried a
little revolver, which he should have used if he had been
disturbed.
General Sedgwick, a lawyer of New York,. has been
despatched by Mr. Secretary Bayard to Mexico as the
Envoy of tha United States Government in respect to
the imprisonment of Mr. Cutting.
The Patent Office authorities at Washington have re-
instated Professor Gray's application to have the in-
vention of the telephone registered in his name. If
the professor should establish the priority of his dis-
covery, it would vitiate Bell's patent.
The Commercial Treaty between this country and
Spain came into operation on Sunday. Now for the
first time the manufacturers of Great Britain are placed
in the same position as those of Germany, Belgium,
and France; and .the Spaniards are expecting a great
development of our trade with them.
A sad accident occurred at Eastham, near Chester,
on Saturday. An excursionist named John Mildren
hired a boat,,for a sail on the river, and when out in
the middle of the stream a passing flat struck the boat,
and Mr. Mildren fell overboard. He sank twice
before the boat owner could bring his boat near enough
to Feize him. and was dead when recovered,

The iormel delivery of the scab of the Dually of
Lancaster to Lord John Manners recalls the fact that
the noble lord's legal title is " bir John James Robert
Manners,

Lord Iddesleigh has been appointed an Ecclesiastical
Commissioner for England.
On Tuesday, by order of the Home Secretary, a man
named James Mee,sentenced to penal servitude for life
for being an accessory in the murder of Police-constable
Lines in Birmingham eleven years ago, was released.
It is stated that Mee has gone raving mad during
his stay in prison, and will be removed to a lunatic
asylum. _ _

A. party of Boers who have arrived at Vryburg from
the interior, report that Lieutenant Bethell and a
trooper of the Bechuaaa police have been brutally mur-
dered by Kaffirs while out hunting.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
reading of the barometer last week was 29.69 in.; a, d
that the variation was from 29.90 in. to 29.35 in. The
them temperature of the air, 61.0, was 1.7 below the
average in the corresponding weeks of the 20 years
ending 1868. Rain fell on five days of the week, to the
aggregate amount of 0.67 of an inch The duration
of registered bright sunshine in the week was 273 hours,
against 28.5 hours at Glynde-place, Lewes.
The workmen of the Agricultural Machine Company
at Vierzon, in the Department of the Cher, recently
made a hostile demonstration before the company's
establishment, and in consequence of threats of in-
cendiarism two battalions of infantry were sent.
Several arrests have been made. At Decazeville the
miners' strike continues, and serious collisions have
occurred between the crowds and the soldiery.
Archibald Johnstone, a young man who had falsely
described himself as an Oxford student, was tried at
Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday on the charge of steal-
ing two valuable bracelets belonging to Mrs. Amelia
Hughes, a young American lady residing in Maids
vale, and also on an indictment charging him with
stealing a watch and chain from Charlotte George. He
was found guilty of both offences, and was sentenced
to six years penal servitude.
Sir Edward Clarke, Solicitor-General, spoke at
Barton-on-Trent, on Tuesday night, on the Conserva-
tive policy in regard to Irelaad, which he described as
being calculated to give assurance to the people of
freedom from all authority which had not the sanction
of the law.

M. Jules Ferry, on being re-elected President of the
Council General of the Department of the Vosge-, said
the elections to these Councils General were really a
great political consultation of the whole of France,
and the result was an unequivocal manifestation of
fidelity to the Republic.
Three more shocks of earthquake are reported from
Malta, where the people are much excited, and all the
churches are kept open.
The Rev. J. E. Bennett, of Frorne, a prominent
member of the Trantarian party, and the defendant in a
well. known prosecution before the Privy Council, died
on Tuesday aged 84 years.
Delegates from several farmers' clubs in Kent met
on Tuesday to discuss the depression in the hop trade,
and to devise means to bring the matter before the
Royal Commission on Depression in Trade. A state-,
ment on the subject was adopted.
The receipts on account of revenue from the Ist or
April, 1886, when there was a balance of £5,625,944. to
August 14, 1886, were .£29,082,292, against £29,019,940
in the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which began with a balance of £4,993,207. The
net expenditure was £33,584,097, against 1;35,733,202
to the same date in the previous year. The Treasury
balences on August 14, 1886, amounted to £1,401,045,
and at the same date in 1885 to £2,282,703.
Mr. C. Dawson King, of Blackheath, was charged at
the Greenwich Police-court, on Tuesday, at the pro-
secution'of the Incorporated Law Society, with falsely
pretending to be a solicitor. The defendant had written
to Mr. Lawrence, a tutor, demanding payment "of a
sum of money, otherwise he should at once issue
process against him." Mr. Balguy imposed a fine of
ten pounds
The section of the Siberian Railway from Ekaterin-
burg to Tiumen was opened for fraffic on the 9th inst.
The line is to be continued to Tobolsk

Three Lewis fishermen, from Kerabosf, Derr nra,
have captured an immense whale, 50 feet long. The
animal had stranded in a small creek, probably in pur-
suing herrings. The fishermen cut a deep hole through
the blubber into the animal's flesh, and also pierced
both eyes until the blood spurted freely. The animal
lingered until Saturday night, its death throes being
described as most terrible, the poor creature breaking
off large pieces of rock in its agony. The whale had
been sporting in adjacent waters for a fortnight pre-
viously. A Stornoway firm has purchased the carcase.
Colonel Hamersley, Chief Constable of Cheshire,
announces that pleuro-pneumonia has appeared in the
township of Appleton, Cheshire. One animal which
was affected was killed and buried in quicklime, and
the most rigid isolation has been instituted over the
rest of the herd.

At Wednesbury on Tuesday. a case was heard in
which it was shown that two men, named Potts and
and Moss, were arrested in a curious way after commit-
ting a theft. The men were detected at Darlaston
breaking into a poultry pen, and upon being chased ran
into a building from which they could not effect an
escape, in consequence of the door having a self-acting
lock. The prisoners were each sentenced to 14 dap?
imprisonment.
Mr. Frank Whitehead, son of Mr. Whitehead, auc-
tioneer, Lvernool, was drowned at Ramsey on Tuesday.
The deceased, who was 22 years of age, was unable to
swim, He was bathing, and whilst in about four feet
of water was seized with cramp.
A very distressing accident occurred at Strafford
Collieries, Barnsley, on Tuesday morning, when a man
named Jackson was buried alive by his father's side, the
old man narrowly escaping with his life. The deceased,
who lived at Kingstone-place, Barnsley, worked with
his father. Jackson was removing a prop, whilst his
father held him a light to enable him to do so. With-
out any warning a large quantity of roof fell and com-
pletely honied him just missing his father. Assistance
was quickly at hand, and Jackson's body was extricated
as speedily as possible, but life was extinct.
Two children, named George Mack and Frederick
Oliver, aged fourteen and seven respectively, sent out
by the Lendon Fresh Air Mission, were drowned on
Sunday afternoon in a briclrmaker's pool at Hungry-
hill, Farnham. They had been sent to school, but
went fishing instead and fell into the water, which was
nise feet deep.
The second discharge of men from the Devonport
Dockyard, in consequence of the money grant being
insufficient to carry on the work, took place on Satur-
day. The men discharged were 10 shipwrights, 20
joiners, and eight labourers. On Saturday notices were
served on 40 shipwrights and 10 joiners to leave next
week.

The Calcutta " Englishman " states that a small
body of Tibetan soldiers have crossed the frontier into
Sikkim, and have erected two houses intended to be
used as forts. As the Rajah of Sikkim is guilty of a
breach of treaty with the Indian Governmentin allow-
ing this, he will probably be required to get rid ot the
intruders.
_ _ _

Rumours are in circulation at St. Petersburg that
China is hastening her armaments in a somewhat re-
markable manner. It is asserted that several well-
known English manufacturers have contracted to fur-
nish her shortly with 200,000 rifles.
According to the latest returns, the guperlor ckrgy
of the orthodox Church of Russia is composed of 93
prelates, among whom are three metropolitans,ls arch.
bishops, and 75 bishops. There axe in Russia 207
monasteries, with 2937 monks, and 2448 lay brothers.
These are subsidised by the state. There are also
173 not subventioned, and in these are 2937 religious
persons and 1659 lay brothers. There are 171 convents
in all, having 4911 sisters and 12.966 novices.
Two more accidents in the Alpine regions are re.
ported While ascending a glacier in the Tyrol Pro.
fessor Migotti fell from a great height and was instantly
killed. In the Upper Austrian Alps an English young
gentleman fell while climbing a mountain, and was
found in a dvirg state.

A popular demand has arisen in Sicily for the pro.
longation of the period of quarantine upon arrivals
from infected ports, and as tha Government has re.
solved to make no change in the present arrangement,
serious disorders have occurred at Palermo.
A telegram from Washington reports that General
Augur has been wounded by a negro, who fired into him
four bullets from a revolver.

The forest fires in Wisconsin are still burning. The
value of the timber destroyed is estimated at more than
a million dollars.

The Queen held a Council at Osborne en Monday,
wh n the Duke of Portland and the Earl of ,Kintore
were introduced and sworn in. The Solicitor-General
received the honour of Knighthood.
The polling in the Newton Division of South-Welt
Lancashire resulted in the return of Mr. W. Legh, the
Conservative candidate, by a majority of more than
seven hundred votes.

A number of Canadian artillerymen visited Wool..
with Arsenal on Monday, and were shown over the
various departments. They were also entertained at
luncheon, when Colonel Armstrong expressed his sur-
prise at the enormous military resources which they had
seen, and promised the hearty co-operation of the na-
nadians in any enterprise in which they could be useful
to the Mother Country.
The whole Mubsulman population of Bulgsria have
informed the Porte that they have decided to emigrate
to Turkey proper. The Porte is inclined on the whole
to encourage the movement. The danger is that means
to meet the wants of these unfortunate people may not
be at hand when required, and that the influence of
such an example may cause a similar departure of all
the other Moslem populations from the adjacent pro-
vinces not under direct Mussulman rule. _

A convict tailed Sea-nn;',.-Sh-o;t-2.5- --y-e-ars of age, who
has srved a third of his term at Canterbury Prison for
a murderous assault upon two soldiers, on Saturday
introduced one of the fingers of his left hand into the
mach:nery of the treadmill with the intention of sus•
ttining a slight injury which would secure him
immunity from work. Ths man's hand was, however,
drawn in by the cogwheels and reduced to a mass of
pulp before the wheel could be stopped. The limb had
to be amputated.
An American who graduated at St. Cyr and was
expelled from France five years ago for an article
which he published in " Le Tribulet," a satirical journal
Which he founded, is now proposing to the Royalists to
get up a subscription for the purpose of buying an
artistically-made sword and presenting it to the Duo
d'Aumale. To this end he has sent round circulars,
some of which, owing to the carelessness of the clerks
who addressed then?, have been sent to the editors of
divers Republican journals.
Intelligence comes from the New Hebrides an-
nouncing that 50 of the soldiers are down with the
fever, and that the Dives had left with additional
material and stores. This does not look as if the local
Governreent contemplated the immediate withdrawal
of the troops. At the same time they are not of the
slightart use for the purpose for which they have been
professedly sent, because they are located in two places
where there have never been any massacres—namelh
at Havannah Harbour and Port Sandwich.
Roumania is making praiseworthy efforts to show
her flag at sea. The training. ship Mirzea, with a crew
of 108, of whom 50 are boys, after cruising in the Black
Sea and visiting the Russian and Turkish ports, passed
through the strai,ts on Saturday on her way to the Ar.
chipelago to cruise among the Greek islands and along
the coast of Asia Minor until October, when she re-
turns to the Danube. The Blirzea is being fitted with
an auxiliary engine of British build. She is a fine
vessel, most creditably officered and managed as a
04001 of nootical navigation,

Latest cholera returns from the affected distric
Italy show an appreciable diminution in the morta
President Cleveland has left Washington f
month's holiday in the Adirondack Mountains.
Notwithstanding that King Milan and his P
Minister are about to travel abroad, from which it n
be inferred that peace is not likely for the prese
be disturbed in Servia, the Vienna corresponder
the " Daily Telegraph" mentions another version si
admits that military preparations are going on
which professes to account for them by the all
Pan• Bulgarian agitation.
It has been decided by the Office of Works tc
upon the recommendations of Sir John Roscoe's
mittee on the ventilation of the Houses of ParDarr
The proposed works are to cost less than £lO,OOO,
have already been let in three contracts.

On Monday evening a large party of Indian
Colonial visitors arrived in Dublin, where far t
days they were the guests of the citizens.
On Monday night a number of children who
playing on the racecourse at Penrith quarrelled, a:
lad named Graham, aged only eight, threw a stoo
Sarah Ann Reay, the missile striking her in the
and bursting the jugular vein. She died directly.
An inquest was held at Plymouth respecting
death of a girl named Lizzie Bing, who was suppog
have died from injuries inflicted by two boys at a
Sunday school excursion. Acting on the informs
of the mother, and on the circumstances attending
assault on the girl, a medical man had treated be
concussion of the brain; but a "post-mortem "ex
nation was decided upon, and several surgeons wet'
vited to take part in it. The result was an expres
of opinion that death was due to typhoid fever, al
verdict accordingly was returned to that effect.
The Endowed Schools Commission met in Dublis
Monday, and during the sitting a singular scene
Presented. Both Dr. Walsh and Lord Plunket,
Roman Catholic and Protestant Archbishops of Dui
were present. Archbishop Walsh protested against
Protestants being referred to as the Church of Ire
in any scheme Catholics were interested in, and soi
to prove that already the Roman Catholics had ;dal
the title.

Mr. Gladstone in reply to an inquiry of the Corp
tion as to whether he would visit Cork to receive
freedom of the city recently conferred upon him,
written stating that he has no intention of visiting,
land. He states that he hopes to be able to mai
visit to the Continent in eight or ten days.
The gunboat Banterer has returned to Westl
taxing landed the Land Commissbn on Achill IA
_ .

The-Belaian Minister of War Las issued an ordei
the disbandment of the militia of the class of
who were called out during the disturbances vi
occurred last March at Liege and in the Hainaut
district.

At a meeting of the Cleveland Ironmasters Asso
tion at Middlesbrough it was decided to reduce
make of pig iron by 20 per cent.
A contract has been awarded for building cerl
breakwaters in the Straits of Northumberland, for
improvement of the water connection between
Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, which will t
to increase the trade relations between the
prov:nces.
Mr. Ritchie, President of the Local Governit
Bmrd, visited the camp at Darenth of. Monday ,
inspected the site for the proposed permanent Sin
pox Hospital. He also made a careful inspectioi
the temporary buildings now standing, and which t
in use during the last small-pox epidemic.
Early on !Monday morning a young man. nal
Alexander Weddell, valet to a gentleman staying
Brighton, proceeded to the end of the Chain Pier
the purpose of bathing. The sea was rough at
time, and he was warned by the attendant, but I
withstanding this he went into the water and 0
after disappeared.
A shocking accident occurred on Monday eveninl
Cllonloun, county Clare. A man named O'Neill
Tulle, was shot dead while engaged in beating up gl
for District Inspector Seddell and Dr. Scanlon,
were out grouse shooting. The unfortunate man
in the line of fire, and received the contents of b
guns.
The Rev. Mr. Leys, who was recently sent to Pri
in Edinburgh for refusing to give up his grandchilo
because they were to be sent to a Jesuit institut
has been liberated. His son presented a petil
stating that he did not desire to enforce his right
the custody of the childiee, and Lord Shand 91'
upon gave orders for the reverend gentleman's
tion.
At Glasgow Mr. Jas. Samuelson, of Birkenhead,
unsuceessful candidate for East Renfrewshire,
presented with an elegant silver casket by the Libe
of the constituency, and an illuminated address
also presented by Provost Dick, expressing their b
appreciation of Mr. Samuelson's ability and court
during the election.
A sad accident occurred in Sligo Bay on Sall
night. A boat containing 11 persons, when erosi
the roadstead of the harbour, suddenly capsized!„
the occupants were all thrown into the water. 'Sv,
great difficulty seven were rescued, but a sea eeP
named Robinson, his two sisters, and a woman s'
unfortunately drowned.
With reference to the manceuvres carried out bY
volunteers during the past week, the following or
was issued at Aldershot: "The Lieut.-General 0;
mending desires to express to the several volunl
battalions who. since the 24th ult., have formed Par
the Aldershot Division, the satisfaction with vrhicb
observed their knowledge of drill and intelligence
marßeuvring, their zealous performance of duty,
their good conduct while in camp."
The nineteenth annual festival of North Wales cb
was held on Monday at Harlech Castle, under,
patronage of Lord and Lady Harlech. Numerous g
and village choirs from Oarnervoushira, neribiFlV
Cardiganshire, and Merionetshire competed for
great choral prize, and Haydn's " Creation " wag 1
formed by the united choirs at the close of the o(
petitions. The ancient castle was crowded by a g,
audience, special trains being run from various Par'
North Wales.
While digging potatoes on a piece of grounil.
Broomfield, Essex, a lad named Sydney Cass turnec
a massive gold ring, weighing over half an ounce.
whieh was afterwards found to be the property of
G Pitt, a resident in New Zealand, who lost it sore
years ago. At that time Mr. Pitt was on a visit to
H. Knights, his brother.inslaw, on whose ground,
ring has been found by the nephew of the lal
While strolling round the garden one evening in 1
some children going by asked him for some
Gathering a few he threw them over the wall,
is supposed that the ring then slipped from his fin
Some time ago Mr. Knights removed a portion of
mould under the pear-tree to the potatrebed,
seems evident that he unconsciously took the ring:
the mould. It is not in the !east injured by itB
burial.
The order for the armour plates required iP
construction of the Nile and Trafalgar, on of whic
being built at Portsmouth, and the other at Penib,.l.
has been pretty equally divided between o°l
Cammell and Co. (Limited) and John Brown en'
(Limited), Sheffield. The total weight nf the Plat'
4908 tons-2454 tons for each ship. The bulk of
plates vary in thickness from 14in. tapering to 6.10
to 18in. tapering to Sin. About 1132 tons will be.;
plates, a greater thickness than the AdmiraltY
ever before ordered. They a-e to be msnufactu• e,6
Camrnell end Co. The delivery commences ail
immediately, and will continue to the close of the
miralty financial year in 1888.
The Duke of Cambridge has accept2d the invit°
of the Emperor of Austria to attend the mance°
of the Austrian army in Galicia this autumn.