The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-15 00:00:00

SATURDAY, JAN. 15, 1887.

The fishing-boat Koh.i-noor was during the storm
on Tuesday driven against the back of Lybster Pier,
Caithness. and three of the orew—Boderick Forbes,
Alexander Sutherland, and Benjamin Sutherland—were
drowned. Seven cr6ws were taken off by the Wick
Lifeboat from the fishing-boats which ran for shelter to
Ackergill Bay. _

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A heavy gale prevailed off the Mersey on Tuesday,
causing great inconvenience to the incoming and out-
going vessels. The Waterford steamer while entering
the river, passed the smack Star of Carnarvon in die.
tress, she having sprung a leak. The steamer's lifeboat
was at once manned by the mate aud four of the crew,
and succeeded in rescuing the smack's crew, who were
afterwards landed at Liverpool. Several minor casualties
are reported._ _ _

At Birkenhead Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, John
Pierce an extensive builder and contractor, was in-
dictedfor uttering a number of bills of exchange bear-
ing the forged endorsement of his brother.in.law, John
Owen, grocer, Dwyren, Anglesey, by which he obtained
credit for building materials. It seems that the prisoner
sent the bills to his sister, Mrs. Owen, who got her son,
aged 13, to endorse them in the name of his father, who
was ignorant of the proceedings. Prisoner was found
guilty, but sentence was deferred pending an appeal on
a legal point.
Dr. Commins, M.P., speaking at the annual meeting
of the Financial Reform Association in Liverpool on
Tuesday supported a proposal that there should be a
finance committee of the House of Commons, and said
that the superannuated system of the public depart.
wents was a great curse of the nation. He thought
this cGuntry was playing the game of brag with its
feet. There was not sufficient audit of the spending
departments of the country, and he believed a finance
committee would act as a check on public eap-nditure.
He deprecated a system of local government with
one-third of the members nominated by the Govern-
ment or sitting ex-officio.

A Unianiec demonsti-ation was presided over in
Edinburgh on Tuesday evening by the Earl of Hope•
toun, who said that in the new leader of the House of
Commons they would have a stable man. Lord
Brabourne said that Lord Randolph Churchill, whether
mistaken or not, had acted from the highest and most
conscientious motives. He expressed great regret at
the resignation cf Lord Iddesleigh. Resolutions
pledging the meeting to efforts to maintain the unity
of the Empire, and expressing confidence in the Govern-
ment were adopted.
Tho Duke of Abercorn presided on Tuesday at the
annual meeting of the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union,
held in the Leinster Hall, Dublin. He stated that
11,000,000 leaflets, 500,000 pamphlets, and more than
20,000 posters and maps had been circulated, and 300
meetings had been held. Colonel Saunderson, M.P.,
in seconding the adoption of the report, said they had
otftly to keep the question fresh before the people of
Great Britain, and at the next ale:Mon they would
have a more unanimous verdict than they had obtained
at the last election.

In thi Chancery Division on Tues.lay, Mr. Justice
North, on the application of the debenture holders,
appointed Major Dickson, chairman of the Crystal.
Palace Company, receiver of the property of the com-
pany, Mr. Justice Chitty appointed Mr. Edward Hart,
accountant, receiver of the property of the Monarch
Line of Atlantic steamers.

In the Queen's Bench Division on Tuesday the Duke
of Devonshire obtained a judgment from Mr. Justice
A. L. Smith that the duke was entitled to a soveral
fishery in the river Eden, and that the Corporation of
Carlisle, who had acquired land on the bank, had no
right to fish in the river

The Bulgarian delegates have been reneived by DI.
Goblet in his private capacity.
Dr. Junker, who is now at Suez, favours the middle
route from the coast to Usukuma for the relief of Emin
Bey.

Emin Bey, in letters received from him in July,
calculated that his ammunition would fail in December
last, and that he could hold out for half a year more if
not attacked by wild tribes.
A Ministerial crisis in Canada is reported, and an
immediate dissolution of Parliament is expected, the
elections to take place next month.
It is stated that several Turkish gunboats have been
despatched to watch the Candian coast. A rising is
expected.
The "Diritto " baja telegram from Blaasowah stating
that Ras Aloula has died in consequence of the wounds
received at the assault of Kassala.

The laying of the rails connecting the Eastern and
European railway systems has now been completed.
The Hon. Evelyn Ashley maintains that the best of
the Irish people are not in favour of H me Rule.
Fifteen hundred men came out on strike on Monday
at Lord Londonderry's Seaham colliery.
A young man in a boot factory at Leicester, suffer-
ing from toothache, took oxalic acid in mistake for
salts, and died in a very short time.
The loss of 10 lives at the. Houghton Main Colliery
on the 30th December last was, in the opinion of the
jury, caused by the cage in which they were drawn
up being inadvertently overwound.
A young woman named Wakeman, of Clhiselhurst,
while playing with her brother and sister, thiew a
poker at the boy. It struck her little sister on the
head and killed hoc. The young woman was arrested
and discharged.
Nearly one hundred people who partook of pease.
pudding at a dinner near Carlisle have suffered from
food-poisoning, washing-soda having been used to
soften the peas. Four are still very ill.
The Archbishop of Armagh invites the members of
the Church of Ireland to Join in an aggregate movement
for the commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee in such
a manner as may suitably mirk their devotion to the
Sovereign.
Another suicide is reported on the Chatham and
Dover line at Rochester. A tradesman named Strood
threw himself in front of the Dover expreaa and MO
decapitated.
Last year in Vienna 358 persons, 280 men and 78
women, committed suicide. The oldest suicide was
83 scars of age, and the youngest 11.
The superior court of Bruges holds that the grapnel,
known to English fishermen as the "Belgian devil,"
is an instrument necessary to fishing, and that the
police have no right to seize such useful implements.
The Austrian Governmen : have purchased an estate
at Mitroviez, in Croatia, for the establishment of a
penal colony. A prison is to be built, and the prisoners
will be employed entirely in agricultural pursuits.
ALother new shell, called the Mitrailleuse, is To.
ported to have been invented in France by a mecharical
engineer named Thimon. It shatters the object at
which it is aimed, and, continuing its course, sends 12
bullets for ward and the same number backwards, finally
exploding and discharaine 144 bullets.
Father Dl'Glynn, who was summoned to Rome to
explain his advocacy of Mr. Henry George's land
theories, has declined to comply with the request of the
Pope.
Viscount Cross was preseni at Ashton • under.
Lyne on Monday night, when an inauguration
of a habitation of the Primrose League took place.
His lordship said no explanation of the resigua-
tion of Lord R. Churchill from the Government
could be given by any of his colleagues until
the meeting of Parliament, but that resignation
had led to a renewed expression by the people of the
determination that there should be no disintegration
of the Empire. He urged the importance of England
having an effective navy, which, he said, was impossible
unless coaling sta ions were provided and protected
throughout the world.
At Cambridge University on Monday Dr. Swainson,
master of Christ's College, formally resigned the post
of Vice-Chancellor, and Dr. Taylor, Master of St.
John's, was inducted into the offi e.
The Hon. and Rev. Canon Leigh, speaking on Mon.
day night at a temperance demonstration in 6t.
Pancras, referred to the Jubilee year, and said that if
the Queen from her throne would announce that it was
her wish that henceforth the revenue should not be
built up on the ruin and degradation of her people the
memorial raised would be more exalted than the
highest tower, more extended in its operation than any
Imperial institute, and would strengthen the Church
of England more than any Church House.
In responding to the toast of "The Universities,"
proposed at the annual dinner of King's College School
Old Boys on Monday evening, Sir John Lubbock said
they had heard a great deal about the establishment
of a Teaching University for London; but it was not
generally known that there were at least 150 colleges
and institutions already in existence in connection
with the University of London, and it would be most
unjust, he thought, to do anything which would in any
way affect the interests or "Impair the utility of these
Institutions.