The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-03-19 00:00:00


SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1887.

The Queen- has signified her Intention of being
present at the review to be held at Aldershot to
celebrate her Jubilee. It is now understood that this
grand military display will take place on July 5. From
calculations prepared at the war Office it is estimated
that the number of troops to be formed up on the
occasion will be about 70,000 of all branches of the
military service—regulars, militia, yeomanry, and
volunteers.

Lord Randolph Churchill is expected to return to
England on the 27th instant. He will, therefore, be
able to be in his place when the Budget is brought
forward.
Mr. Frederick Wrench has been appointed an Itish
Land Commissioner in place of Mr. Vernon, deceased.
Lord Hartington will preside at the inaugural dinner
of the Liberal Union, which takes place on the :'o,h
instant. An important statement on the policy of
Liberal Unionists is expected
_from him on the occa•
sion.
Judgment was on Monday delivered by the Court of
Appeal in the action brought by Mr. Lyell, the assignee
of three ladies, alleged co.heiresses of Miss Ann
Duncan, to recover certain land in Manchester, includ •
jug a mill and seventy cottages. Their lordships
held that the plaintiff was entitled to one-third of the
property, but not to the remainder.
At the Highgate Police-court on Monday, three
licensed victuallers were each fined £lO and costs for
adding sugar to their beer.
Francis Connelly, a tailor, of Foley.street, Fitzroy.
square, was on Monday, at the Marylebone Police-court,
sent to prison for 14 days for assaulting the police
during a meeting of Socialists in Hyde Park on Sunday
afternoon.

The Court of Appeal on Monday ordered a new trial
of the ejectment action, tried at Leicester before Mr.
Justice Stephen, in which the Duke of Buccleuch was
the defendant, and in which the question turned upon
the legitimacy of a man known as John the Pen-
sioner.

M. Zankoff has addressed a letter to the Grand
Vizier, in which he declares that to continue the nego-
tiations would not only be useless, but even dangerous.
He asks that energetic steps may be taken to prevent
further occurrences which might stain Bulgaria with
blood.

In an interview which a Paris correspondent had on
Monday with M. de Lesseps, on his return from Berlin,
he stated that be had been well received by the
Empress, Pricce Bismarck, and other leading per-
sonages, and added his conviction that there no longer
exists the slightest probability of a conflict between
France and Germany.
Mr. Justice Stephen and a special jury on Monday
concluded the trial of an action brought by Messrs.
Dixon and Hudson, owners of the steamship Isle of
Hastings, against the Board of Trade to recover com-
pensation for the detention of that vessel in the Tyne
pending the lightening of the cargo, as directed by the
Government offleials. His lordship pointed out that
the question for the jury to decide was whether the
Board of Trade had reasonable and justifiable cause for
suspecting that the vessel F was unsafe, and the jury
returned a verdict for the defendants.
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At a meeting of the Cardiff Corporation on Monday 'l3'
the Common Seal was affixed to a petition to the Home '
Secretary asking him to appoint a stipendiary magis-
trate for the borough at a salary of £750. Mr. R. O.
Jones, the former stipendiary, died about six months
ago.
Mrs. N. Yates, wife of a miner, living near Barnsley, '
narrowly esceiped being blown to pieces en Monday by ,
the explosion of a dynamite cartridge cap used for
blasting purposes, containing tonite, a highly explosive
substance. Both her hands were severely shattered,
It seems that a labourer, named Marsh, ordered his
daughter to throw a number of the caps in the canal.
The girl dropped some on the canal bank, where a
schoolboy, named Margerson, found them and dis-
tributed them among his companions. Mrs. Yates
obtained one, and was probing it with a needle when
it exploded.
Six crofters from Kilmuir, Skye,who were sentenced
by Lord Mure, at the High Court of Justiciary,
Einburgh. last December, to three months' imprison-
ment for rioting and deforcing a sheriff's officer in
Skye, were liberated on Monday morning. They were
received at the Edinburgh prison gates by about one
hundred sympathisers, who marched in procession to
an hotel, where the crofters were entertained at
breakfast, and afterwards presented with .€1 each to
help them to make their journey home. .
It has been decided to quarter DO troops on the
Gosport side of Portsmouth Harbour on the occasion of 1,•
the Easter Monday Review, on account of the prevalence
of smallpox at the Gooport forts. Accommodation is,
therefore, being provided for an additional number in
the three available forts on Portsdovvn.hill, and all the
barracks will be filled to their utmost cspacity.
Arrangements will be made for requisitioning the
Board Schools in the town for the accommodation of
the remainder of the volunteers.

Mr. Ritchie, President of the Local Government
Board, who represents St. George's-in-the East, having
conveyed to her Majesty the great desire of the in-
habitants of the locality that the route by Burdett.
road and Commercial-road might he adopted on
returning from the visit to the People's Paloce on
May 14, has received an intimation to the effect that
her Majesty will return by the proposed route.
The Prince of Wales, President of the City and
Guilds of London Institute, has nominated Sir F.
Bramwell. late Chairman of the Executive Committee,
Vice-President of the Institute,
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, replying to a resolution
passed at the recent meeting of the Bristol West Con-
servative Association says: lam deeply touched by
the great kindness shown to me and the sympathy and
confidence expressed in the resolutions sod by the
various speakers. My warmest gratitude is all that I
can now offer in return; but I feel it would indeed
be ungracious if, after such action on the part of my
constituents. I responded to it by relinquishing thiir
service, and, therefore, I will thankfully retain the posi-
tion in which they have placed me, in the hope and
teal that the next session I may again he able to
work for them as I could wish."
In addition to Sir Henry Holland, who, as Secretary
of State for the Colonies, will preside at the meetings
of the Colonial Conference, several Cabinet
Ministers will take part in the proceedings
of the first day, when representatives of
the press will be invited. Lord Salisbury will probably
be present, and will address the delegates. The details '
of the several subjects to which the .ittention of the
Conference will be directed, will, it is expected, be
considered by committees appointed for the purpose,
the proceedings of these committees being private.
Before the close of the Conference, however, one or
perhaps two more sittings will be open to the press.
Sir John Whitwell Pease' Bart., M.P. has resigned
the Presidency of the Cleveland Liberal Asso-
ciation, chiefly as a protest against the Association
having recently dismissed two Unionists, namely, Sir
Isaac Lowthian Bell and Mrs. T. Hugh Bell, from
official positions in the Association. Sir Joseph still
remains a member of the Association.
A correspondent writes from Porto Maurizio :We ;
have experienced another severe shock of earthqual+ e
here, which sent everybody flying and screaming out
of their houses and out of all the official offices. In
truth, slight shocks have continued on and off since the
23rd ult.
The portrait of Sir Edmund Renderson, by Mr. Edwin
Long, R.A., being now completed, the Duke of West-
minster will present it, together with the balance of
subscriptions to the testimonial fund, on Thursday,
the 31st inst.
Mr. Gladstone has forwarded a letter to the Organis-
ing Secretary requesting that he may be put down as a
subscriber of £5O towards the fund for establishing ill.)
Imperial Institute as the national memorial of the
Queen's reign.
Mr. Walker Ballantyne, the defeated Gladstonian
Liberal candidate for Coventry at the last election, has
accepted
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The Duke of Marlborough has arrived at Cannes, and
Is staying with Captain Philip Green at Villa Ole-
tnentine, where the young Marquis Camden and his
sister are residing.
Colonel William Osborne Barnard, late in command r
of the Manchester Regiment, has been selected for
the command of the Shrewsbury Regimental District.
Colonel Charles Smith Perry has been selected for
:he command of the Norfolk Regiment, on Colonel
Oramer Roberts vacating that position shortly.
The eighth annual exhibition of the Architectural
and Buildiu Trades was on Monday opened at the
itgricultural Hall, Islington, and is to be continued
until the 28th inst.