The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-01-23 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A train, conveying troops, has been wrecked near
Valdivia, Chili. Thirty persons were killed, including
11 officers. _ _ _

In the Queen's Bench Division on Saturday Mr.
Monaghan, proprietor of the copyright in a song,
sought to recover penalties from the proprietor of a
music-hall at Blackpool for permitting the song to be
sung without the owner's permission, and was awarded
£32.

The Queen has conferred the honour of a baronetcy
upon Mr. George Stephen, president of the Canadian
Pacific Railway.
The crew of the schooner Two Brothers, which
recently foundered, were landed at Dover, on Saturday.
The men were in a very exhausted condition; having
been for two day. drifting about in a boat.
On Saturday morning a well-known auctioneer.
named Liverd, sate of the firm of Liverd and Nottage,
of Slough and Windsor, was found dead at tbe Slough
Station of the Great Western Railway.

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Between the Ist April last and the 18th inst., the
Revenue receipts amounted to £62,754,486, as com-
pared with £63,483,342 in the corresponding period of
last year; and the expenditure to £73,394,481 as against
£68,347,779. On Saturday last there was a balance of
£857,996 in the Bank of England, and of £630,450 in
the Bank of Ireland.

The death is announced of Archbishop Errington,
who was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Plymouth,
and to whom the formation of that diocese was due.
The deceased prelate was uncle to Sir George
Errington.
The Canterbury magistrates were occupied on Tues-
day in hearing a charge by the police against a watch-
maker, of the name of Goodwin, for having allowed a
lottery to take place on his premises. The defendant
said he had simply had a raffle, and such things were
done all over the city. The evidence of the police
showed that a boy aged twelve robbed his mother of a
sovereign, and went to the defendant's shop, where he
bought 23 chances at 6d. each, in a raffle for a
mechanical monkey. The defendant was fined 205.,
and the magistrates said that in future heavy fines
would be imposed in such cases.
The inquest arising out of the death of the eighty-one
persons through the colliery explosion at Mardy was
concluded on Tuesday. One case only was inquired
into, but the verdict applies to all. The Jury decided
that death arose from an explosion, but how or where
the gas ignited there was not sufficient evidence to
determine, and that the fatality did not arise from shot-
firing.
Mr. Justice Mathew on Tuesday tried an action
which involved the right to goods seized on behalf of
Mr. Alfred Myers, under a bill of sale for a hundred and
thirty pounds. As fifteen pounds of this amount was
specified as "interest and bonus," it was contended
that, this being net in accordance with the form pre-
scribed by the Act, the bill was invalid. His lordship
declined to take this view of the case, and said the bill
of sale must be upheld.
The Spanish Monarchical papers charge the French
authorities and the Radicals in Paris and Bordeaux
with abetting Senor Zorilla, and otherwise fomenting
revolution in Spain. The new Spanish Ambas-
sador in Paris has been ordered to make strong rep.
resentations on the subject, and to insist on the re-
moval of the tepublican refugees hovering about the
Pyrennean frontier, and the expulsion of Senor Zorilla.
Great precautions are being taken in the towns in the
north and south of Spain, where a Zorillist outbreak is
apprehended by the authorities.
The outcome of a tailors' strike came before the
Tunbridge Wells magistrates on Monday, when Themes
New was charged with assaulting George Butler, on
August 4th. The prosecutor had been secretary to
the Working Tailors' Society, but resigned, and his re-
fusal to strike led to his life being threatened. New,
who was placed on picket to watch tailors' shops, was
stated to have dogged prosecutor abnut, and .Fen
spoken to knocked him down and kicked him. New,
being unable to pay £3 fine and El 58. 2d. costs, was
sentenced to be imprisoned for a month.

it nom or sneep belonging to rut. umicotr, ci
Bultingham Farm, were• grazing in a field near
Kemmeridge Edge, South Dorset, when they were
attacked by a bull terrier and a sheep dog, and about
70 of them were driven over the cliff into the sea, and
on to the rocks below, where their mangled carcases
were found. The same dogs afterwards attacked and
committed great havoc among some sheep belonging to
Mr. &evens, of Eastington Farm. The dogs have since
been captured.
About a fortnight ago a box arrived at the Canterbury
Station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway,
addressed to Sergeant-Major Martin, 10th Hussars,
Cavalry Depot. It had come frem Tynemouth, and the
carriage was paid. There is no Sergeant-Major Martin
at the Cavalry Depot, and the box remained at the
station while correspondence passed between Canterbury
sad Tynemonth. The authorities at the latter place
being unable to trace the seeder, the box was opened
by the Canterbury station-master on Tuesday morrine.
Inside was found the body of a full-grown infept, which
had apparently been suffocated. An inquest was held,
when the jury returned an open verdict.
Mr. Deasy, M.P., presiding at the fortnightly meeting
of the Irish National League, declared that the Iri4h
members would not abate one jot of their demands,
"unless, indeed, as a means to an end." Speeches were
delivered by other Irish members.
The Northern ship-yard strike on Tuesday night
assumed a serious aspect in the Hartlepeols, the whole
of the men having quitted their employment in conb2-
quence of the rejection of the employers' offer to
extend their notices for another fortnight. Hence,
there will be no resumption of work at any of the
yards in the Hartlepools until some positive settlement
of the difficulty takes place. This will throw twelve
hundred hands idle, and materially aggravate the pre-
vailing distress, which is already widespread.
At the Winter Assizes held at Oarnarvon on Tuesday,
before Mr. Baron Pollock, Nathaniel D. Lambert,
formerly an assistant gamekeeper, in the employ of Mr.
G. W. D. Assheton-Smith, of Vaenol Park, obtained a
verdict against that gentleman, with 130 damages, for
injuries received through being accidentally shot in
the back of his head by Mr. Assheton• Smith, whilst out
with a shooting party in December, 1884.
The Irish Parliamentary Fund in America, now
amounts to $40,000.

According to the Registrar-Ceneral's report, 2695
births and 1902 deaths were registered in London last
week. Allowing for increase ot population, the births
were 182 below and the deaths 95 above the average
numbers in the corresponding weeks of the last ten
years. The annual death-rate per 1000 from all causes,
which had been 18-0, 26.5, and 224 in the three pre-
ceding weeks, rose again last week to 23.9 The
deaths included 1 from small-pox, 51 from measles,
13 from scarlet fever, 22 from diphtheria, 103 from
whooping-cough, 12 from enteric fever.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
reading of the barometer last week was 29.60 in.; the
highest reading was 29-96 in. on Tuesday morning, and
the lowest 29.03 in. on Wednesday afternoon. The
mean temperature of the air was 36.5, and 1.7 below the
average in the corresponding week of the 20 years ending
1868. The mean showed an excess on Wednesday and
Friday, whereas it was below the average on each of the
other days of the week. Rain fell on six days of the
week, to the aggregate of 1-13 in. The duration of
registered bright sunshine in the wee'r was 81 hours,
against 15 2 hours at Glynde Place, Lewes.
A meeting of Convocation of the University of
London was held on Tuesday evenin2. at the University
Building,Burlington-gardens. Dr. Wood, chairman of
convocation, presided. The report of the annual com -
mittee, to which was appended a suggested amended
syllabus of subjects for the matriculation examination,
was received, and a resolution recommending the
adoption of the revised syllabus was agreed to. A
resolution was also passed in favour of Carrying out a
report in regard to the matriculation examination,
adopted by the Senate in 1870, in favour of inserting
in the paper " a larger list of questions, reqniring fr.om
the student answers only to a certain proportion of the
total, and leaving to him the choice as to those which he
is best qualified to answer."
The commanding officers of metropolitan volunteer
corps met in the Levee Room, Horse Guards, on
Tuesday evening, to concert arrangements for the
volunteer manceuvres at Easter. The proposals of the
Duke of Cambridge were discussed, and a resolution
was adopted leaving the matter with the Commander -
in-Chief to organise small reviews in several places, with
marching columns.
The Parnellite member for Monaghan, Sir Joseph
Neate McKenna. who has property in the Youghal
district, has issued a number of writs for non-payment
of rent previous to the late general election. Sir
Joseph declined to grant his tenantry an abatement of
20 per cent., on the ground that he feared it would
invalidate his seat.

Mr. John Macdonell, who was recently appointed
secretary of the State Trials' Committee, is busily
engaged in compiling material for the continuation of
the volumes known as the State Trials, the publication
of which stopped at the year 1820. The existing .seriet4
consist of 33 volumes, the first trial reported being that -
of Thomas A Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, upon
a charge of. high treason, in the reign of. Henry IL, in -
the
,year 1163, :and the last being.the trial of Thistle-'
wood and others, for participating in what49lBlll3.6wei
at he Cate-f#E#09;1801401p, .u.'i au(v)
At the CentrillOcimmaUourtron.Xoesday,fantrial
ot Patrick Kenn "on the Charge Oflitelling Mr."..G6orge
HoWel1;1112; for North-Bast Bethnal-green ferr'nfrafed
in a verdiet of not guilty: Aapplicatlon on -behalf 'df ,
the defendant for costs -Wrisi .granted:- 'NVillPArt'Leitik"
Smith, 24 years of age, was sentenced to six months'
imprisonment with hard labour, for obtaining various
sums by false pretences from naval and military
officers.

Vice-Uhancellor Bacon nas mace an oraer upon a
creditor's petition for the winding up cf the Army and
Navy Company (Limited). Mr. Justice Chitty wound
up the Metropolitan Guarantee and Accident and
Insurance Company, and also the Llangenneola Coal
Company (Limited).
On the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail-
way, near Silkstone Station, on Saturday, the remains
of a brick-burner, named Charles Harrison, were found
strewed about the line. It is supposed that the de-
ceased was caught, knocked down and literally cut to
pieces by a fast goods train. The remains were got
together, and conveyed to Silkstone.
A shocking murder was committed at Copenhagen
on Saturday. A provision dealer while intoxicated,
literally smashed his wife's head with a plummet. He
then sat by the side of. the body, and continued drink-
ing for hours until he was arrested.
Colonel Stanley, Secretary for the Colonies, address-
ing a deputation who attended at the Colonial Office
on Saturday to urge that authentic information re-
specting emigration should be communicated to the
public in local districts through the Post-office, said
that the Treasury had assented in general terms to the
principle and were prepared to agree to a certain
amount being placed on the estimates, but the details
were still in the air.
In the German Reichstag on Saturday a resolution
was passed declaring the recent expulsion of Poles
from Eastern Prussia to be unjustifiable and not in
harmony with the interests of German subjects.
From Paris the death is announced of BE Paul
Baudry, the French painter, after a painful illness.
Rumours are afloat (the "United Service Gazette"
says) that one of the earliest duties of the new Par-
liament will be the appointment of a Royal commis-
sion of inquiry on the conduct of certain officials of one
of our service departments, suspected of practices in
relation to foreign Governments unworthy of their
trust.
At the Thames Police-court, on Saturday, Thomas
Morgan, described as a medical prectitioner, of 297,
High-street, Poplar, against whom complaints had
previously been made of disgusting conduct towards
several children, was brought up and remanded on the
charge, his own recognisances in £5OO to appear on the
following Saturday.
A shocking accident, resulting in the drowing of two
boys, occurred on Saturday afternoon at Annesley, a
village midway between Nottingham and Mansfield.
The slight frost of the previous day had caused the for-
mation ot a thin coat of ice on a pond close to Annesley
Hall. On Saturday afternoon several children ventured
on the ice, when it suddenly broke up, and four boys
were immersed. Their shrieks quickly brought
assistance, and two of them were rescued. The bodies
of the others were recovered.
On Friday the final action of the Indian military
nranceuvres was fought, the victory remaining with the
Southern force. The Viceroy was to leave Calcutta on
Saturday for the camp of exercise near Paniput.
Mr. Brullaugh delivered an address in the Hall of
Science, Old-street, London, on Sunday, on "Ireland
and Home Rule." He stated that he should oppose
any_ proposal to renew coercive legislation for Ireland._

On Monday morning, at the North Shields Police.
court, Captain Laurence Dundas, was summoned at the
instance of the Board of Trade for overloading his
vessel, named the Ecossaise, and submerging the disc
to the extent of three inches. The solicitor for the
prosecution asked the Bench to inflict a severe penalty,
as d'efendant had been previously fined for a similar
offence. The Bench fined defendant £2O and costs.
A notice has been issued by the Commissioner of
Police of the Metropolis to the effect that the police
order of the 20th November last will continue in force
for a further period of 60 days; and that the police
order of the 4th December as to muzzling dogs within
the Metropolis will continue to be stringently enforced
antil further notice. _ _

Three Englishmen, named Clarke' Mackenzie, and
Mackay, have been sentenced by the Tribunal of Mar-
seilles to three years' imprisonment each, for stealing
50,000 francs from the office of a money changer.
A telegram from Alexandria states that in the action
by the proprietor of the i"Bosphore Egyptien" the
Government has been condemned to pay the damages
for closing the printing office within 40 days, the
amount, with costs, to be estimated by arbitrators.
During a gale at Wednesbury, on Sunday night, the
parapet of the Baptist Chapel in Dudley-street was
blown down, and the falling bricks struck several
persons, killing a domestic servant named Emma
Newman, and teriously injuring a man named Rankin.
Newman's skull was shockingly fractured. She bad
been sent by her mistress to the post-office. The chapel
had been closed for some time, owing to its dilapidated
state.

Information has reached Dover from the west Indies
of the death, from hydrophobia, of Major Morley, who,
until recently, was connected with the Ordnance
Department at Dover. Last year a small terrier,
belonging to Major Morley, went mad, and got loose in
the town, biting several persons, including its owner,
and causing much excitement. Major Morley, it is
stated, died raving mad, after suffering intense agony.
The Swedish Rigsdag was opened on Monday. The
Speech from the Throne announces that bills will be
introduced for effecting reforms in the administration
of justice, in the customs law, and in the banking regu-
lations.

The Czar is about to appoint a superior officer as
adviser to the Khan of Khiva and Inspector of the
Khivan forces.

Eight Socialists from Bohemia have been permanently
expelled from Vienna as dangerous agitators.
The ceremony of blessing the Odessa waters was
solemnised on Monday by the Archbishop, in the
presence of the Governor-General and the local and
provincial notabilitieF,. There was the usual military
pomp. Inclement weather detracted from the effect
of the spectacle.
The Russian police have seized a large quantity of
dynamite packed in bale form at the station of
Bielostock. The package was consigned to a fictitious
name and address, and appears to have been despatched
from a small station between Wilna and Wileka. In
this instance the Russian police seem to have fallen
into the same error as the English at Dover, by over-
hs.s! ein a similar seizure made some time ago, that is
by not guarding the secret of their discovery until the
consignee presented himself at the station of delivery.
In the Dover case this oversight of the Erglish police
was critically commented upon by a Russian police
organ. _

The cholera in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar is now
insignificant, and the public health of the town itself is
excellent. The authorities at Tangier have removed
the quarantine imposed upon arrivals from Gibraltar
since the appearance of the disease at Algeciras and
Marbella, and now only rt,quire a certificate stating
that p ssenc,ers have resided in Gibraltar fifteen days
previous to embarking for Tangier.

-Lne Washington House 0_ Representatives nave
passed the Presidential Succession Bill, which, having
also received the sanction of the Senate, will becoa
law after signature by President Cleveland.
Her Majesty's Government have decided to propose
to Parliament legislation with the view to amend the
existing law, and to enable Great Britain to become a
party to the proposed International Copyright Union.
The French Ministerial declaration was read on
Saturday in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. It
commencea by pointing out the necessity for re-
establishing good order in the administration for the
maintenance of the clergy, in the strict exeeution of
their duties, the restoration of a financial equilibrium,
and the cessation of expeditions to distant countries.
The declaration states that no fresh loan is intended to
be raised, and that the Government will propose no
additional taxation. The protectorate in Tonquin will
be organised on simple and economical bases. The
various bills to be submitted to the Chamber are then
enumerated, and the declaration conchdes with
appeal to the unity and co-operation of all friends of
the Republic.
• Intelligence has reached Panama that the town of
Amatitlan, in Guatemala, was nearly destroyed by an
earthquake on the 18th of December. There were
altogether 131 shocks, but no fatal results are reported.
Shocks of earthquake have also cccurred in other parts
of Central America, and volcanic rumilings are re-
ported from Ecuador, produced, it is suppos.cd, by an
eruption of Cotopaxi.
A formidable Socialist plot has been (Uncovered in
Chicago, directed against capitalists. Tile dynamiters
are alleged to be makirg active meow a tiun s.
Sir Richard Cross has issued a circuhr from the
Home Offica, stating that it is highly desirable that all
local authorities under the " Dogs Act of 1871 "
should rigorously endeavour to stain") out. rabies in
dogs by following the directions which Professor
Brown, the professional officer of the Agricultural
Department, has submitted to the Privy Council. The
gist of the proposal of Professor Brown is that all
dogs should be put under restraint, as they are in the
Metropolitan Police District. The circular has been
forwarded to all the Courts of General Scssion.
As a train of mineral waggons was enteling a mine
in Wyoming, on Friday night, an explosion occurred
which blew the train and 13 miners into fragments, and
tore away an immense mass of rcck from the mouth of
the wmkings.
Miss Katherine Bayard, the eldest daughter of the
Secretary of State at Washington, was on Saturday
found dead in her bed. The young lady was to have
attended Miss Cleveland's reception in the course of
the day, and when the sad news of her sudden death
reached the White House the reception was at once

•
IVestbury Church, Cheshire, a fine old structure, was
re-opened on Sunday for Divine service, after being
completely restored. The plans were prepared by the
late Sir Gilbert Scott, and considerable works have been
in progress since 1877. At that period the church was
in a very dilapidated condition. The great fealuies in
the operation were the restoration of the nave, south
aisle, and south porch. When the old high-backed
pews were removed and the flooring taken up, several
bodies, buried a few inches below the surface., were
found in a state of partial decomposition. They were
re-buried deeper and concreted over. The body of the
church was filled with carved oaken benches. The open
timber roof, erected in 1674, has been restored to view,
and the tower, which had become unsafe, has beeh
improved by pinnacles and rendered secure. Mr. Leek
rebuilt the chancel at his sole expense. The opening
Sermons were preached by the Bishop of Chester and,
the Bishop Suffragan of Colchester.
William Turnbull, surgeon, and Mary Notttigki,.lo4:-
wife, who had been convicted of inaislatiOtetyiiike
brought up for sentence on satitiOa L'ive -I,l3.oeittat
Criminal Court. Mr; 3'ulqice ...senteneidl
Turnbull to 10 years' 'penal iseraei.,Sud'Nettaigert6
18 months hard labour.,
A conference of ladies' incl'OirtleidaiwiriAeld
Sattirday in the Londbn Mangionll.6iiig4the Li
Mayor presiding—to Ceiiiiider the kibjecl'bf "''recedaii
Itive and practical evening classerir'in. lichitollinlud and:
other schools." Resolutions supperting the
Inient of such classes were adopted; and la Council was
appointed to undertake the promotion of an scisbelit
ItiehtO carry out the prOlicOli '7 • •
Lord George Hamiltory,''. Ai; ,'Oeftpil
litk, A
Inaeetin* itterOydOn on Satiirday.r, eNe*g lkstitit 'et;
itheeindidature of Mr. Sicin.6y Ilerbeitodid Titre fence'
Ito Ireland said he believed the 'great 'ffiaiii -of
'land Scotch people were determined that there should
lbe but one law in the United Kingdom, the law of
iParliansent and ;the SOvereigii,land.thatiTvery
.quar,ter.4 :the empireour.poor men should be protected
in the enjoyment of the.yrlololAL_th.,464o23- -
occupying themselves as they chose. He Bereft.
criticised the course adopted by the late Government
both at home and abroad.

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fl..ad; the edikii of the "Pall Malt
Gazette," has been released from Hollowairrison. I
Lord Ranturly presided at a Loyalist demonstration
in Belfast to protest against any further concession to
the National League in Ireland. The meeting was
largely attended by persons of all classes fromdifferent
parts of Ulster, and a firm determination was expressed
by the speakers to resist not only any attempt to esta-
blish a Parliament in Dublin, but also any scheme for
extending local government in Ireland, and resolutions
in accordance with these views were passed.
The owners of the Waterford Coal Company received
intelligence tbat their steamship Reath, bound front
Cardiff for Waterford, with coal, came into collision
on Sunday night in the Channel with a German
steamer, and that the Reath sank. The crew were saved
by the German vessel.
foil - appeared in the "South Australian

-The lowing
Register of December 14, 1885 (received per Orient
Line steamer Iberia, via Naples : "(By telegraph.)
Sydney, December 13. The schooner Fairlie, from
Soloman Islands, brings intelligence that a trader
named Childe has been murdered by the natives of
Bagga Island. It appears that the savages, who are
very treacherous, called Childe out of his dwelling and
killed him with tomahawks. They cut off his head and
cooked and ate the body."
Captain Whittle, of the Ist Leicester Regiment, died
on Monday at Cheltenham Hospital from injuries
received by being thrown from his horse on Saturday*
while riding to a meet of hounds Captain Whittle's
regiment is stationed at Aldershot, and he was on a
visit to Cheltenham for the hunting season. The horse
became unmanageable and Captain Whittle was
dragged along the ground with one foot caught in the
stirrup. -
The Queen has been pleased to give directions that
Mr. C. N. Newdegate, late M.P. for North Warwick-
shire, shall be sworn a member of her Majesty's most
honourable Privy Council.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint .the Rev.
John Gott, D.D., vicar of Leeds, to the vacant deanery
of Worcester.
, of tbe Home

The Queen has, on the recommen ,ion
Secretary, approved of the inquiry now being held by.
Royal Commissioner! into the education of the blind
being so extended as to include the education of the
deaf and dumb and such other cases as would seem to
require exceptional methods of educational treatment.
Her Majesty has also approved of the appointment of
Lord Egerton of Tatton to be chaiiman of the corns
mission in the place of the Duke ot Westminster, who
from reasons of health is unable to continue in that
office. It being necessary to strengthen the commission
in consequence of the extended inquiry her Majesty
has approved of Sir H. Selwin-Ibbetson, M.P., Sir Lyon
Playtair, M.P., and Mr. B. St. John Ackers being
appointed to serve as Royal Commissioners.
At the Chelsea Conservative Club, on Monday
evening, Mr. C. A. Whitmore, the Conservative
candidate for the borough, delivered an address on tie
Irish question. After reviewing the history of tat
Irish Parliament up to 1801 he said there was no doubt
that the union of the two Parliaments had been brought
about by wholesale corruption and delusive promises,
and went on to treat of the agitation of O'Connell, the
Fenian movement, &c., and said that if the Irish were
united in a desire for Home Rule, were law abiding,
and well-affected to the British connection he would
be much tempted to give that proposal a very fall and
patient consideration. •
The death is announced of the Rev. Adam- Clarke,
rector of Longton, Staffordshire. Deceased, who was a
nephew of the distinguished Biblical commentator, was
educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated B.A.
in 1854. He was curate of St. Neot's, Hants, from 1856
to 1858, and vicar of Long Preston, Yorkshire, from
1861 to 1863. In the latter year he was appointed
rector of Longton. Mr. Clark died from cancer, from
which he had suffered for many years. Notwithstanding
his illness, however, he had taken a prominent part in
county affairs, and it was chiefly owing to his instru-
mentality that the largest hospital in Staffordshire was
founded.
The death of the Bev. Dr. Conaty, Roman Catholic
Bishop of Kilmore, took place on Monday at his resi-
dence in Cavan. For a month Dr. Conaty had been in
ailing health, and shortly before Christmas his condi.
tion became critical; he rallied, however, and it was
thought he had survived all danger. Dr. Conaty was
in his 67th year, and was consecrated Coadjutor
Bishop of Kilmore in 1863. He succeeded to the
see two years afterwards.
A farmer named Lacey was at North Viralsham com-
mitted for trial on a charge of intimidating two
labourers during the election at East Norfolk.
Before the Registrar of the Edmonton County Court,
on Monday, exception was taken on behalf of candidates
in Middlesex constituencies to the charges of the
Under-Sheriff in connection with the recent elections:
A charge of £279 6s. for construction and fitting-up of
rooms was in the case of Hornsey reduced by 12139 13s
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Other items were disputed, and in the end further
reductions were made.
The annual meeting of the members of the Charity
Organisation Society took place on Monday afternoon
in London at Willi:' .; 110em.6. The funds of the society;
were shown to have somewhat decreased during the
past twelve month., but otherwise the report of the
council was of a satisfactory nature. Amongst those
present wele General Sir 0. eavenagh, who presided,
the Bishop of London, and Lir. 0, S. Kenny,M.P.
At a meeting of the Victoria (Philosophical) In-
stitute, held in London, a paper on Samoan traditions
was read by the Rey. T. Powell, who during a very
long residence among the natives has gathered from
the keepers of the traditions all the early history of
their race, including traditions of the creation and
deluge.

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Tlie scheme for the endowment of the French
Church in the Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral has been
warmly taken up by the descendants of the Huguenots
residing M London and the North of Ireland, who have
promised that, providing .£l5OO is raised in Canterbury
and the neighbourhood, they will subscribe the remain-
der.

Maillart's opera "Fadette " was produced on Brenda',
night by the Carl Rosa Opera Company, at the Royal
Court Theatre, Liverpool, with great success and before
a crowded house. The cast included Madame Marie
Roze,Madame Julia Gaylord, Messrs. Barton McGuckin;
Sauvage, Esmond, and Burgon ; Mr. Goossens con.
ducting.
The bodies of Albert Bennett, steward of the Earl of
Caithness's yacht Francesca, and a lad, were picked up
in tho River Itchen on Monday. They started on
Sunda: morning to sail out to a yacht in Southampton
Water, and the boat capsizing in a squall, both were
drowned.

The three arbitrators who were appointed by the
Justices at the Quarter Sessions for ascertaining the
average price of a Winchester bushel of good market-
able wheat in the County of Lincoln, for the twenty,.
one years ending 31st December, 1884, which forms,
the basis for reascertaining the corn rents for the next
twenty-one years, have just prcsented their report tci‘
the Justices, from which it appears that this lass
average is less by 4d. a bushel than the preceding
twenty-one years' average, the present being 5. 1 lid.
per bushel, as against Gs. nd. This will have the effect
of reducing the corn ieuts by about 1-19th.
A conference of the National Temperance Federation
for Yorkshire, Derby, and Notts was held at Sheffield,
on Monday, and was followed by a public meeting in
the evening. Alderman Clegg, of Sheffield, who
presided, stated that the temperance organisations ot
the country would not accept Lord Salisbury's,
proposal to grant local option on the principle that fo;
the licences not renewed in any district the holder*
should have compensation. Resolutions were passed
in favour of Sunday closing and the direct veto by the;
people, and against payment of labourers' wages
otherwise than in current coin.

Many Irish organisations in America held meetings
on Sunday and contributed considerable amounts to the
Parnell Parliamentary Fund.