The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-06-18 00:00:00

SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1887.

The Council of the Royal Colonial Institute, at a
meeting held on the Ist of February last, passed a
resolution declaring it desirable that whenever the next
census of the United Kingdom was taken the Home
and Colonial Governments bhould endeavour to make
arrangements for having the census of the whole Empire
taken on the same day, and, as far as practicable in the
same form. The resolution was forwarded to Sir Henry
Holland, who has replied, stating that her Majesty's
Government have always endeavoured to cause such
an arrangement to be made, and adding that the im-
portance of this principle will not be lost sight of on
the next occasion.

The "Bombay Gazette" announces that since thu
Maharajah Dhnleep Singh has thrown in his lot with
RIM* the daily prayers which were offered on hie
behalf in the great Sikh temple of Amritzar have beeti
stopped by orders of
.the high priests.. . . .

Tile File and Clackmandon-Miners' Association have
voted the sum of £lOO to asaist the Northumberland
miners in meeting the cost of maintaining their Parlia-
mentary representatives.
A brutal prize fight took place early on Monday
morning in the outskirts of Northampton, between iwo
local light-weights, known as Punk and Buck. The
battle was of the gamest description, and 24 rounds
had been fought before Buck, who hitherto had had
the worst of it, landed Tunk a terrible blow over the
heart, which so stunned him that his second threw up
the sponge. Both men were badly bruised. Many
spectators were present.
Two drowning fatalities occurred in the River Suit,
near Waterford, on Sunday evening. In one case a
shop assistant, named Tr soy, whilst bathing,was carried
away by the current and was drowned; and in the
other instance a man named Barrow was boating with
four companions, when the boat suddenly capsized, and
he was lost. Barrow's body was recovered on Monday
morning.
Another body was found in the River Thames on
Sunday night, off Richmond-bridge, and within a short
distance of the spot where the decomposed remains of
a man were recently discovered, since identified as
those of William Passenger, of Norbiton. The body
last found is that of a respectably. dressed man, about
50 years of age.
The warm weather of the past few days has had a
wonderful effect upon the growing fruit crops in Kent.
The trees everywhere are loaded with fruit. Cherries
are making rapid progress, and will soon be fit to pick.
In the Imperial Court at Leipzig the trial for high
treason of the Alsace and Lorraine members of the
French Patriotic League commenced on Monday, Herr
Drenkmann being the presiding judge. The accused
were charged with having supported attempts for
separating A/sace.Lorraine from the German Empire.
Herr Tessendorf, Procurator General of the Empire,
and Herr Treplin, Deputy Procurator, appeared as
counsel for the Government; while the accused were
defended by the local advocates Zehmen, Freitag,
Fels, and Luden, Advocates Munckel, of Berlin, Ott
and Schottenstein, of Strasburg, and Stroever, of
Metz. _ _

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Reports from 70 points in Manitoba and Canadian
North West Territories show that a fine r6infall,
which extended throughout the whole region, has
occurred and has been followed by two days of warm
weather. The reposts are unanimous in saying that
the crops never looked in better condition since the
country has been settled. Wheat is in some places 17
inches high, and the farmers and business men are very
confident of a good crop.
The New Zealand Parliament has been prorogued
prior to its dissoluti 312 by the Governor. The elections
to the new Parliament will take place in August.
Lord John Manners, who has been suffering from
indisposition, was eufficiently recovered on Monday to
resume his duties in the House of Commons, where he
was very warmly cheered on rising to answer a question
concerning his department. Colonel Saunderson
also appeared in the House for the first time since the
holidays.
On Monday the funeral of the late Earl of Win-
chilsea took place. The iemains were interred in the
Family vault in Eastwell parish churchyard, and the
Rev. W. Finch-Hatton, cousin of the deceased,
officiated. The mourners present included the present
Earl of Winchilsea, Lady Constance Howard, Lady
Hilda Higgins, daughters of the deceased; Captain the
Hon. F. Howard, Mrs. Higgins, General Paget, Lord
Powis, Lord De L'lsle, Captain Rice, R.N., Mr. G.
Finch-Hatton, Lord Brabourne, and others.
Mrs. Whitworth, of Dallington Hall, Northampton,
has expressed her inten ion of making an abatement
of 20 per cent, to all her agricultural tenants on her
estates in Wales on the rents now due in consequence
of the present agricultural depression in the princi-
pality.

The annual fête of the Stationmasters and Inspectors
of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
Oornpany took place on Monday at Eastbourne.
Officials from all parts of the company's system
attended. The Railway Provident and Orphans Fund
was reported to be in a very encouraging condition
and doing much good.

A telegram was received at Nottingham on Monday
announcing the death of Mr. Henry Sherbrooke, half-
brother to Viscount Sherbrooke, in the 77th year of his
age. The sad event occurred at Llandudno, where Mr.
Sherbrooke had been staying for the benefit of his
health. He was a deputy•lieutenant and a magistrate
for Notts, and only recently resigned the deputy-
chairmanship of the Notts Quarter Sessions. He and
Viscount Sherbrooke were sons of the Rev. Robert
Lnwe, rector of Bingham, Notts. The deceased took
the name of Sherbrooke upon succeeding his cousin in
the Uxton estates in 1847.

Presiding over a meeting of the inhabitants of Maid.
stone, on Monday, the Mayor presented an English
clock with chimes and bells, valued at £6O, together
with a life governorship of the West Kent Hospital,
and a list of subscribers in a vellum album bound in
morocco to Mr. L. Oollingwood, in recognition of his
services as postmaster of Maidstone for the period of
32 years.
it is announced from Zanzibar that the cruising
Launch of her Majesty's corvette Turquoise has been
attacked Ly a slave dhow, which it sunk, rescuing 43
slaves. A British officer and five men were wounded
in the tic ion.

From Mery it is announced that the Transcaspian
Railway authorities are fitting out at Chardjui two
iron lighters and two steamers for the purpose of re-
connoitring on the Amu-Daria. Russian despatches
state that English engineers are equipping on the
Upper Amu•Daria two light•draught steamers, which
4.e to be mounted with steel guns of small calibre.
A panic occurred on Monday on the New York
Coffee Market. _

Colonel Sir Francis Morley presided at the National
Association for the Employment of Discharged Soldiers,
at the London Mansion House, on Monday. It was
announced in the report, which was agreed to, that
the Queen had become an annual subscriber.
Mr. Bar :'n Huddleston on Monday Wei an action
brought against the former proprietor of Deacon's
Music Hall for breach of covenant in conducting
Sadler's Wells Theatre after engaging not to carry on
a place in proximity for the salc of wines and spirits.
His lordship held that, although a theatre might hate
a drinking saloon, the sale of wines and spirits was not
its primary object, and that the defendant was not
restricted from taking a theatre. He gave judgment
for the defendant, and refused to stay execution.
In trying an. action brought by a bookmaker named
Crook to recover over 2.800 from a person named
Macmahon, being the balance of betting transactions
at Newmarket, Mr. Justice Grantham on Monday
remarked on the anom lolls state of the law, under
which one could recover betting money paid by him as
agent for another, whilst he could not recover a bet
mcde diiectly by himself. A verdict for the plaintiff,
with judgment, was entered.

A young woman named Luxmore was charged at
the Westminster Policeecourt on Monday with stealing
a quantity of jewellery and some wearing apparel from
houses in Punlico, where she had taken lodgings. The
magistrate convicted her in two oases, and sent her to
goal for two consecutive terms of six months each.