The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-17 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Oa Satiiriday, at Leeds, Wilter Roper Neeson, aged
thy, a confidential clerk in the employ of Messrs.
Walkiugtou and Co., school slate manufacturers, was
sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment for embezzliog
various sums of money amounting to over £lOO, the
property of the firm.
The gnglish church in Libson, situated near the
Ehglish cemetery, has been completely destroyed by
fie. ,;

Ca tNit, • rnia last year sent East 16,000,0001b5. of fruits
—grapes, peaches, plums, apples, and apricots. It is
now sending car-loads of oranges.
General Hancock, the hero of Gettysburg, has died in
straitened circumstances. He left only 1,000 dollars
worth of personal property, but a public subscription
for his widow amounts already to 37,000 dollars.
Professor J. H. Siddons, a grandson of the great
English actress, Sarah Siddons, died recently in
Washington. He was born in Calcutta in 1800, and
built and managed the first theatre in that city.
The reduction in the American debt during March is
estimated at 14,000,000 dols.
Delegates from the most important Hebrew congre-
gations in the United States have recently, formed an
association for the establishment of a great Hebrew
University in New York.
The proposed fast weekly line of steamers from
Boston to Liverpool has been given up since the loss
of the Oregon, which was to have been one of the
boats. _ _ _ _ _

A rumour comes from Bayreuth, where it is generally
credited, that, in consideration of a loan, Great Britain
has received the right to work the Custom-house at
Sy min:
The Queen and Princess Beattice, attended by theft
suite, left Windsor Castle alc=tly after 10 o'clock or
Saturday morning for Osborne. The Royal party pro-
ceeded by special train over the Great Western and
South-Western Railways to. Gosport, whence they
crossed 'te the Isle of Wight, where they arrived early
in the afternoon.

A life-like portrait of Prince Bismarck speaking WitE
winningly taken during the recent important debate cr
the Schnapps Monopoly Bill in the German Reichstag
While the Prince was urging his cause with his ac-
customed vehemence, the President of the Berlir
Academy, Herr von Werner, was smuggled in among
the members, and rapidly sketched Prince Bismarck ir
the heat of oration. Suddenly the Prince caught sight
of the artist, and directly he had finished his speed
made straight for Herr von Werner. Various members
however, neatly button-holed Prinee Bismarck on his
way till the artist had safely retreated before the PrincE
could catch him.—" Graphic."
The Venerable J. E. Blakeney, Archdeacon ol
Sheffield, has been appointed an honorary chaplain tE
the Queen, in succession to the Provcst of Eton, who
becomes Chaplain-in-Ordinary, in place of the Hon. and
Rev. A. Byron, deceased.
A fire at Lawrence, Massachusettu, has destroyed the
Pemberton Mill, a large structure. The walls suddenly
; fell and buried and killed 10 of the firemen.
Victor von Scheffel, one of the most popular of
modern German poets, has at last succumbed to his
long sufferings at Carleruhe, his n ttivi3 town.
: A rough estimate made by the Post Office authorities
show that the number of words signalled out or London
on the occasion of Mr. Gladstone's statement last week
was about 1,500,000, being almost twice as many as on
any previous occasion, the highest record hithert3 being
860,000. The total number of words delivered at the
various offices in the provinces was, however, very much
larger, since many of the reports vrere sent to a number
of addresses. According to the post office counting
Mr. Gladstone's speech, verbatim, amounted to 24,700
words
' A cleverly-planned and successful post-office robbery
' occurred at Calcutta last week. A registered letter.
bag, brought from a branch post-office, containing re-
mittances worth about a lakh of rupees, was ab-
stracted while it was being conveyed from the central
office to thst railway. Next morning it was found lying
on the Maidan, in a torn condition, with the contents
lying about, including notes for aboat 15,000 rupees,
which the thieves had apparently rejected as dan-
gerous.
At the Guildhall Police-court , on Saturday, Henry
Reginald Richardson, described as a clerk, was sen-
tenced to Imprisonment for on month for stealing
from the Holborn Viaduct Hotel property belonging to
visitors. _

A little more than a week ago the Marquis of Bute
gave the formal consent required by the standing
orders to the Bute Docks (Oar liff) Transfer Bill on
behalf of himself apd his children; it has been neces.

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The Firefly gunboat has arrived off Lowestoft for the -
purpose of preventing further outrages by Belgian
trawlers.

The Prado Music Hall at Batignolles was burnt
down at two o'clock on Monday morning. No lives
were lost.

The condition of the schools among the Indians and
the progress of Indian education appears, from the re-
port of the 'United States Secretary of the Interior, to
be most gratifying. The whole number of schools is
200, with a capacity of 11,943 pupils. The average
attendance 18 8049. _

The amount of capital invested in potteries in the
United States is now 8,000,000 dols., and the value of
last year's product was about the same. The growth of
the industry has been materially increased by the
manufacture of jars and pots for decoration by young
women with the art craze.

Dlr. Gladstone was present at the performance of
" Faust ". at the Lyceum on Saturday evening, and was
accorded an enthusiastic reception by the audience.
The Ways and Means Committee of the Washington
House of Representatives presented its report on the
Tariff Bill on Monday. The -duties which it is pro-
posed to remove are chiefly' those on articles used by
American manufacturers, whereby the latter are sub-
jected to a hopeless competition with manufacturing
countries in which such materials are not taxed. The
committee contemplates an extensive free list, including
such articles as wool, hemp, flax, and salt. The mi-
nority of the committee has drawn up an adverse report
declaring that the bill is founded on the British sy stem
of tariff revenue only.
Mr. Joseph Cowen, M.P., in a letter to a correspon.
dent at Newcastle, says: "The present Parliament
will soon be ended, and with it my parliamentary duties
will termihate."

A serious accident occurred on Monday at the
Chatham School of Military Engineering, resulting in
injury to a large party of men of the Royal Engineers,
seven of whom had to be taken to the hospital. The
men were riding on a trolly at the engineer field works,
and in rounding a curve the trolly left the metals,
threw out tte men, and fell upon them.
It is expected that the second reading of the Irish
Government Bill will be taken about the 10th of May.
Prince Bismarck on Monday took part in the debate
in the Prussian Diet upon the Ecclesiastical Bill,
which aims at settling the relations between Church
and State, and explained that the time had come to
"abolish the fighting laws," the Emperor desiring to
establish religious peace.
Justices Denman and Field on Monday gave judgment
in the Stepney Election Petition in favour of Mr.
Durant, the scrutiny having shown a majority of 10 for
the sitting member.
The Midland Railway Company were on Monday
defendants in an action brought by Mrs. Pleiffer, wife
of a tradesman at Stamford-hill, to recover damages
for injuries sustained in falling downstairs at the St.
Ann's-road Station through, as was alleged, defective
lighting. The Lord Chief Justice told the jury that if
reasonable care was taken in a case like this it was
monstrous that an action should be brought, and the
jury found a verdict for the defendant, though express-
ing sympathy with the plaintiff.
Three tenants were on Monday evicted at Minister,
in the county Limerick, by the sub-sheriff, Mr.
Frederick Hobson, under peculiar circumstances. Two.
of the farmers owed seven years' rent, and an offer was
made by the landlord that if they paid one year's rent
in full they would be reinstated in their holdings, and
the balance due wiped off. One of the tenants did so,
and he was reinstated. The other professed his in-
ability to pay any rent, and he was evicted. The sub-
sheriff was accompanied by a force of c -nstabulary
and bailiffs, and a crowd of people witnessed the pro--
ceedings, but did not interfere.
A traveller named Dunkerley in the service of a
firm of wholesale provision merchants, was charged at
the Manchester Police-court, on Monday, with em.
bezzling nearly £lOOO from his employers. The pri-
soner admitted his guilt, and said he had lost all the
money in betting on horses. Commencing with small
bets, he had grown reckless, and had betted £lO, £2O,
or £lOO at once. He was sentenced to nine months'
imprisonment.
Tulsi Ram, the Hindoo who came from London to
petition the Queen, was on Wednesday brought before
the Windsor magistrates for creating. an obstruction.
He was offered a passage home, but refused to go back
to India. As he had been a week in custody, the,
Bench discharged hint •
Shepperd Millikin was, at Holywood, county Down;
on Monday fined £6OO for having a still and a quantity
of illicit spirits on his premises. The fine was mitgated
to one-fourth.

The majority of the Mike of Newcastle will be cele-
brated with much magnificence at °lumber, on April
28,29, and 30.
In his match with William Cook-bn Monday evening,
John Roberts compiled breaks of 506 'and 365. The
first-named number is a best on record at the spot-,
barred adie; the previous Vest being 451, made by the
same playerin December last. •
The following telegram from the Governor ofl.
Western Agstralia has been received by the Secretary.
of State for the Colonies, dated Perth, April 6, 1886:
"Excellent accounts from Kimberley. Over 400
ounces alluvial gold brought down to Derby by five
parties diggers."
News from Melbourne states that the steamer
Taiaroa, belonging to the -Union Steamship Company
of New Zealand, and coasting between Wellington and
Christchurch, has been wrecked near Kaikora. Only
two passengers are known to be saved. It is feared
that all the others have perished. A second telegram
received later states that the Taiaroa struck during a
violent gale. Three boats which were lowered capsized,
one of them containing 29 persons, of whom only '
three escaped. The total loss of life is unknown.
The Taiaroa was an iron screw steamer of 438 tons
gross, built at Glasgow in 1875.
On Monday afternoon, as a Birmingham Midland
Tramways engine and car were travelling down Cape-
hill a steam pipe connected with- the engine burst,
blowing the driver off into the road. He recovered
himself, but was unable to catch the car, which dashed
into a nine-inch wall, knocking it down. The driver's
injuries were dressed at the West Bromwich Hospital,
and after about an hour's interruption traffic was re-
sumed.

On Monday afternoon, in the preßence of a large
company, Lady Dilke (who was accompanied by Sir
Charles), Mrs. Stephen Holman, of Ealing, Mrs.
Clarence Smith, of Chiselhurst, and Mr. J. Peters, laid
the memorial stones of the new Wesleyan Institute,
Church Parlour, &c, in connection with the Wesleyan
Church at Willesden Junction. -

A severe criticism on the Central Asian Railway, by
General Tchernajeff, the conqueror of Turkestan, was
published in a St. Petersburg paper on Monday. The
General contests its utility both from a military and a
commercial point of view.
M. Pasteur read a paper on Monday at the Academy
of Sciences in Paris, in which he said he had treated
726 persons, of whom 688 were dog-bitten and 38 wolf.
bitten. Oily one death from rabies had taken place
among the former, whereas there had been three among
the latter.
At a meeting of Nonconformists, on Monday, held
at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon-street, London,
Mr. H. Richard, 31. P„ in the chair, a series of resolu-
tions were agreed to, objecting to certain provision' in
Sir R. Webster's Bill dispensing with the attendance
Of the registrar at marriages of Nonconformists. •
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A number of boatowneis and others met at Ander-
ton's Hotel, Fleet-street, London, and on the
motion of Mr.'M'Laren, M.P., passed a resolution con,
demniog some of the bylaws recently drafted by the
Thames Conservators.

Sir Edward Lee, late managing director of the Albert
Palace Association (Limited), appoaled at the Surrey
Sessions on Monday against a conviction by Mr. Paget,
magistrate at the Wandsworth Police-court, who fined
him .£5O for infringing the Companies Act, 1862. Sir
W. Hardman affirmed the conviction, but reduced the
penalty to £5. • • *

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