The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-05-07 00:00:00

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1887.

The State cereir Mars hi conneetfon with her
Majesty's Jubilee are as follows: June 1, State concert
at Buckingham Palace; June 24, State Ball at Buck-
ingham Palace; June 28, State concert at Buckingham
Palace; June 29, State garden party at Buckinghani
Palace. The concert on June 1 may be altered to
June 2.
The morning sitting of the Colonial
_Conference on
Monday was devoted to the further Consideration of
questions relating to Australasian land defence. In
the afternoon several other matters were discussed.
The Press Association understands that the Govern-
ment have decided to recommend the appointment ot
Royal Commission to inquire as to the 4tent to which
market rights are in the hands of tc.bl authorities.,
trading companies, and private pepioni or bodies of
persons, other than trading companies ;' and to inquire
generally how and under what authority such rights
are exercised and what are the revenues in respect of
those rights.
A " Standard " correspondent With the Mission to
Morocco writes, under date of Morocco, April 19th:
"The British Minister, Mr. Kirby-Green, and suite
arrived here yesterday morning, and are at present
quartered in the Maimounia Palace. The journey from
Mazagau occupied eight days, and much heat was ex-
perienced on the road. The Minister was received with
an imposing military display, in which some 15,009
troops, under the command of Kaid Aficlean, took
part. The Sultan receives the Minister and suite
to-morrow morning, at Couba Sueira."
Sir G. Trevelyan will be the principal guest of the
Eighty Club at its next dinner on tbe 16th inst.
James Blackwell, a compositor, was charged at the
Lambeth Police-court, on Monday, with riotous
conduct, and with assaulting the police, after a body
of Socialists had been dispersed in Kennington-cress
on Sunday morning. He was remanded on bail.
Thomas Morris, formerly manager of a Loan Society,
was on Monday, at Manchester, committed for trial on
charges of embezzlement. It is stated that he has
appropriated to his own use some £4OOO entrusted to
him for investment. _

The remains of Rossini were received with great
honour at every place in Italy at which they have
rested on their way to Florence, where they arrived
late on Monday evening. They were conveyed to a
temporary chapel at the station, and interred with
great ceremony on Tuesday in the cemetery where lie
the remains of Michael Angelo.
News has reached Brussels that there is a renewal of
disquieting rumours in St. Petersburg. Large arma-
ments are being pushed forward, and great masses of
troops are being concentrated on the frontier. It is
added, however, that there is no ground for imputing
warlike designs to Russia at the present time.
A Vienna firm has received a telegram from Buenos
Ayres, stating that cholora has broken out afresh there.
There have been twelve cases in Tucuman, in the
interior itself, and several in the city of Buenos Ayres
itself.
A Liverpool correspondent states that the police of
that city are now actively engaged in watching the
movements of a number of persons who are in regular
communication with the American dynamitards It
is understood they are in possession of information
which will very shortly lead to arrests of a highly im-
portant character, and to disclosures in the police.
courts of an exceptionally sensational nature. Some
of the local suspects complain bitterly of the close
watch which is kept upon their movements. The
Customs authorities are also keeping a strict surveil-
lance upon all persous arriving from abroad and upon
all imported goods, with the object of detaining and
carefully examining any luggage or packages of a
suspicious nature.

At a meeting on Monday night of the Wigan Jubilee
Committee a letter was received from Mr. Janes
Henry Johnson, of the Abram Coal Company, express-
ing his approval of the efforts now being made in the
town to advance technical education, recognising the
efforts of the Wigan Mining and Mechanical School
in that direction, and offering £5OOO towards placing
the school in an independent position, and towards
its endowment. He also expressed a desire to see a
combined movement for its extension by the acquisi-
tion of the public hall.
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Three ricks of hay at Shinfield, Berke, belonging to
the Rev. B. Body, a clergyman of the Church of
England, were distrained upon on Monday by the Dean
and Chapter of Hereford for £5O, tithes and expenses.
Mr. Bayliss, of the Fair Tithe Association, attended,
and banded in a written protest to the auctioneer
against the sale proceeding on Reading fair day, and
at so short notice, as it was advertised only on Satur-
day. The auctioneer, however, proceeded with the
sale, and knocked down one hayrick, value £7O, for £5l.
Mr. Body will claim damages.
At Crewe on Monday the Hon. Thomas Kenyon
Digby St. Lawrence, brother of the Earl cf Ho war,
was charged with keeping four grooms and a gardener
without licenses. The Excise prosecuted. The super.
visor said the defendan: had given them a great deal
of trouble through disregard of notices. A magistrate
remarked that it was defendant's habit to throw all
his letters in the waste paper basket. A fine of ,E 6 was
imposed.

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Mr. Edward Wadsworth, formerly a silk manu-
f cturer at Macclesfield, has offered £5OOO as a Jubilee
gift to restore Macclesfield Parish Church, and a second
i'sooo contingent upon his approving the details of
restoration. The vicar has accepted both offers.
The Lord Provost of Glasgow, before a largo crowd,
on Mond ty cut in West-end Park the first sod of the
International Exhibition, which will be opened next
year. It has just been notified that the Prince of
Wales has consented to become Honorary President,
and that committees have been appointed in India to
promote the exhibition, which will be the grandest
ever seen in Scotland. His lordship, in the course ef
his remarks on the occasion, hoped that the exhibition
would result in the founding of a splendid techhical
college.
The camp at Pirbright, near Woking, at which all the
Guards quartered in London and Windsor are to go
through a long course of musketry instruction and
military training this season, was opened on Monday,'
and tents are now up for about 800 officers and men.
The groundwas taken over at an early hour by an advance
party of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, who were fol-
lowed later on by the main body of the regiment from
the Tower of London. The latter proceeded by special
train hem Waterloo to Brookwood, marching thence to
the camp, and were joined by a detachment of three
officers and eighty non-commissioned officers and
men of the Ist Battalion Coldstream Guards
from Windsor. The departure of the 3rd Battalion
Grenadier Guards for the camp, which was also to have
taken place on Monday, has been deferred till the 16th
instant.
A shocking case of alleged starvation was the sub-
ject of a coroner's inquest on Monday at Beddingbarn,
Suffolk. On April 6, a child about two years of age,
named Crawford, the son of a labourer living in the
village, died very suddenly and was buried. Some days
afterwards, owing to certain information received by
the police the body was exhumed. The body; which
was well developed and tall, weighed only 121- pounds.
Medical testimony given at a preliminary inquiry was
to the effect that the child had died from starvation
accelerated by violence. On Monday, after a protracted
inquiry, the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder"
against the father, and of " Manslaughter " against the
mother of the child.
Mr. Yoamberlain, accompanied by Mr. Jesse Col-
lings, arrived in Glasgow from Blair Athole; on Monday
evening. As Mr. Chambe,lain's coming was not gene— -
rally known, there was only a small crowd within the -
at tion, but the right hon. gentleman was cordially'
cheered. Sir W. Thomson and Mr. Caldwell, M P.,
received Mr. Chamberlain, and ths party drove to
the university residence of Sir William Thompson,
whose guest Mr. Chamberlain was during his two days
stay in Glasgow. Sir William gave a dinner,party on
Monday evening. On Tuesday evening Mr Chamber•
lain will address in the Christian Institute delegates
from various Radical and Unionist associations.
A Brighton correspondent reports that inquiries
show that the statement of the girl who alleges that
she was deserted by her husband at Victoria Station,
that she had lived at 44, Montpelier-road, is incorrect.
The house had been in the occupation for seven years
or Mr. Gates, a professor of music, atid his family. No
lodgers have been received, and the servants have lived
for years with the family. Mr. Gates has never known
anyone in the neighbourhood named Mellish, or cor-
reponding to the description of the lady and her two
sons. The Brighton police are investigating the
matter.