The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-08-06 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lord Aberdare has been appointed Commissioner,
representing England at the International Congress of Geo-
graphers, to be held at Venice next September.
The Royal nose of the ex-King of Oudh seems to be
a particularly sensitive organ. It is stated that he has just
ordered all the gas pipes, fittings, &c., which were lately put
up at great expense in his palace to be immediately removed
as he objects to the smell of gas.
"On the Ist June' lost in a storm in Spencer's
Gulf, South Australia, Charles lierefleld,‘ second son of
Henry and Elizabeth Parsons, of Nlisterton, Crewkerne,
Somerset."—Obituary of The Times, Aug. 2.
A serious boiler explosion has occurre at a distil-
lery at Peoria, Illinois, killing eight people and injuring
several others

By command of the German Crown Prince and
Princess the funeral sermon preached by Canon Prothero on
Sunday, July 24, at Whippingharn, is to be printed. It will
be published at the end of the week by Messrs. Macmillan.
In the Borough of Bootle, Lancashire, a house-to.
house convass is stated to have resulted in returns showing
that seven-eighths of all the householders in the town an in
favour of closing public-houses during the whole of Sunday,
except in the case of lodgers and travellers. The committee
who have undertaken this work by the aid of volunteer can-
vassers publish an analysis of the trades and professions of
the signatories, from which it appears that even a majority
of the wine and spirit merchants, brewers, publicans, licensed
grocers, and barmen are in favour of the movement.

A telegram from Alexandria, dated Aug. 2, says
that the Nile is now rising well and preparations are being
made to strengthen the embankment in order to prevent
floods.

The Melbourne Argus reports that Dr. Angus
Munro, formerly resident surgeon at the Melbourne Hos-
pital, with his sister, and a young girl named Rundle, have
been drowned near Wangaratta, while endeavouring to cross
a flooded creek in a buggy.

Dear Deaf Old Lady (to Young Swell). "And
what are you doing with yourself 'l"—Young Swell (off-
handedly). "I ?-oh, I'm on the Stock Exchange." D. D.
0. L. "Ah I the Stocking Trade! And a very good trade,
too I "—Punch.
At the camp of the 2nd Notts Volunteers, a serious
accident happened on Monday to Lord Newark, the junior
majar. His lordship was knocked down, kicked on the leg
by his horse, and for a time disabled.
The visitors to the South Kensington Museum up to
six p.m. on Monday numbered 21,699. The Horticultural
Gardens, and the Medical and Sanitary Exhibition at South
Kensington, were visited by 12,209. At the closing of the
Zoological Gardens in the evening it was found that they had
been visited during the day by 23,981 persons.
General the Right Hon. Sir William Thomas
Knollys, K.C.8., Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod and
Groom of the Stole to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales completes
his 84th year on Monday, having been born on Aug. 1, 1797.
He is the son of the late General William Knollys, and father
of Lieut.-Colonel William Wallingford Knollys, late of the
93rd Highlanders the military historian.
After a lapse of several yearn, the Godiva proces-
sion was revived at Coventry on Monday, in the presence of
nearly 20,000 persons, many of whom came long distances
totwitness the pageant. A number of historical characters
wire mg/mutest. intherozesaipn. • Those •
dreeon horseback, and representatifes of
lions. The weather was beiutifully fine.

There,.were also cJailtiq
friendly itittitu- I