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On Saturday, at a cattle fair at 2Ett
Kaiaturk, co. Cork, a serious conflict between took"pTallegeree' near
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Afire broke out on Saturday morning in the post'.
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extensive.
On Saturday morning, at half-past nine, Mr. Mark
Stainsby, tar distiller, a prominent Kuottingley gentle-
man, was walking down a siding from the back of his
residence to his tar distilking works, wheu, he was
knocked down by a Hull and Barnsley luggage train,
and killed instantly.
The engine of a train running on the Banbury and
Cheltenham branch of the Great Western Railway,
when near the junction with the Midland line, on
Sativelay morning left the rails at the points, taking
the carriages with it. The engine blocked the Midland
line, and traffic had to be conducted for some hours on
a single set of rails. No one was injured but the
stoker. -
In reeler to assist the Danish farmersl during the
preset), bard times, the King has authorised the Agri-
cultural Bank to advance to them 5,000,000 kroners on
loan, on very favourable conditions.
Lord Charles Hamilton, brother and heir presump-
tive of tle Duke of Hamilton, died at Nice on Sunday,
after a long and painful illness, the proximate cause
of his death being lung disease, the first symptoms of
which displayed themselves at Biarritz, where he had
resided fcr the last few Tears, about 12 months ago.
Lord Charles, who was only 38 years of age, entered the
11th Hussars in 1866, but he did not remain in the
army more than two years, after which he lived abroad.
He married the divorced wife of Baron Paskiewitch,
but leas left no issue, and was at the time of his death
seeking to obtain a dissolution of his marriace. He
became a convert to the Roman Catholic Church last
year.
.Letters from Madrid say that this month, with the
meeting of the Cortes on the 11th, the debate on the
Address, which will touch upon such delicate topics as
the Carolinas Islands protocol and the renewal of the
German Treaty of commerce, the financial policy of
Senor Cainacha-and Budget deficits, the consolhiation
of over £30,000,000 of
.thshan debt with the Imperial
guarantee (a heavy burden for Spanish finsteee), bids
fair to enliven Castillian- politics.
bite Picton succeeded in:Tuesday's ballot in Wain.
iiag precedence on Tuesday, June 1, for his motion for
a Select Committee to inquire into the revenues of the.
Church of England.
At a meeting of the Ramsgate Town Council held on
Tuesday, the question cf taking steps to establish a
telephoeic communication between lightships on the
Goodw n Sands and that town, wars discussed. It was
decided to let the matter stand over until atter a meet-
ing which is shortly to be held, and which will be ad-
dressed by Colonel King-Harman, lILP., has
.taken
place, and then a deputation is .to be formed to wait
upon Mr. Mundella, the President of the Board of
Trade.
The Leicester Board of Guardians on Tuesday night
passed a resolution, by twenty-six to eight, forbidding
prosecutions under the Vaccination Acts. The last
resolution on the subject was passed in December,
1884, since which time thousands of clefaultimg parents
have been summoned, and over a hundred distress war-
rants were issued a few weeks ago. There are at present
in the town thousands of children unvaccinated, with
regard to whom no proceedings will now be taken.
John Neill was charged before the magistrates at
Ballineen, county Cerk, on Tuesday, with the murder
of Daniel Neill, at Knox, on April 2. Two witnesses
identified the prisoner as having been in the neighbour-
hood of the murder on the evening of the crime. One
witness said he asked for deceased's house, and the
other stated the prisoner proposed to him, to shoot
Neill and two other men. The deceased's wife failed
to identify the accused, who was remanded.
At Stalybridge, on Tuesday, an old woman named
Eliza Jones, alias Ainsworth, was committed for trial
for shop robbery. She said she had no home, and pre-
ferred gaol to workhouse. She admitted many pre-
vious convictions in various parts ef the country. For
her last offence she was sent to penal servitude for ten
years, and when arrested was on ticket of leave, with
an unexpired term of three years, which she will now
have to serve.
The Board of Trade inquiry into the running down of
the French fishing smack Auguste et Marie by the
steamship Hardwick, by which six lives were lost, on
the Goodwin Sands, on the sth of March, was con-
cluded at Middlesborough on Tuesday. The Court
found that the master had been guilty of careless
navigation. His certificate was, therefore, suspended
for six months.
The April return of the Cleveland Ironruastere
Association shows the following as the menth'e make
of pig iron namely, 122,000 tons of Cleveland iron, and'
66,000 tons of other kinds—a total of 188,000 tons, or
27,000 tons less than in March. There are 94 furnaces
blowing, 64 of which are making Cleveland pig iron.
Stocks increased 10,000 tons in April.
At Cwmtaff, Breconshire, the Mayor of Cardiff on
Tuesday cut the first sod of a new reservoir for the
supply of water to Cardiff. This undertaking will cost
over £83,000; but the whole system will involve an
outlay of over £300,000.
It was steeled that at the Royal Observatory, Green-
rich, the mean reading di the barometer last week
was 20 83in., the. variations being from 29•43 in. on
'''Wadnesday afternoon to 30•15 in. at the end of the
week. The ndea.n temperature of the air was. 47-7.
Rain fell on two -days of the week., to the aggregate
amount- Of 0•36 of an inch. During the week 50-5
hours of bright sunshine were registered, against 581
hours at Glynde-place, Lewss.
The Easter Law Sittings were opened without any
formalities. In the Divorce Division an application
was granted to commit Alderman Wall, a magistrate
at Bristol and co-respondent in a suit, for contempt of
court, but the attachmeet is to remain in the registry
for a fortnight to enable him to offer a proper apology
to the Court.
At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Tuesday,
William Tranter, 22, was sentenced to two years' im-
prisonment for obtaining food at various hotels by
fraud. It was stated that on the false and perjured
evidence of the prisoner a man named Cleary had been
sent to prison for 12 months, and Mr. Commissioner
Kerr stated that he wauld take stepe to have something
done in the case.
It was announced in Tuesday's " Gazette " that
during the first month of the current financial year
the revenue receipts amounted to £8,260,846, as coin-
pared with £9,656,247 in the corresponding period of
last year; and the expenditure to £9,214,750 against
£9,664,580. On Saturday last there was a balance of
£3,865,986 in the Bank of England, and of £788,960 in
the Bank of Ireland.
An accident of a somewhat serious character occurred
on the London and North-Western Railway at Sutton
Coldfield, near Birmingham, on Tuesday night. As a
train of new coaches, which had only been put en the
line this week, was entering the station, the brake
refused to "bite," and the train consequently ran with
great violence into a stop-block, which was completely
demolished. The engine and two carriages were thrown
off the metals and considerably damaged. Several
passengers complained of being shaken, and two were
severely injured.
Two natives of Japan, employed at the village in
Knightsbridge, wee charged at the Westminster
Police-court on Monday with robbing their employer.
In their account of the sales effected by them at
Easter they had omitted some articles, the payment for
which they had retained, as marked money was found
upon them. Their defence was that as they bad been
doing extra work they thought they were entitled to
extra pay. They were committed to hard labour for •
two and three weeks respectively. They begged Mr.
Buhicrosan to reinstate them upon their release, and
promised that they would be honest in future.
For committing a burglary at 43, Harbridge-street,
Shadwell, on Saturday night, Gerlock Fagan, aged 27,
was at the 'Westminster Police-court sent to prison for
two months with hard )abour.
Mr. Gladstone has let a large field on his Hawarden
estate to the Manchester, Liverpool, and North Lance-
shire Agricultural Society Per the purpose of conduct-
ing a series of experiments instituted by the society
into the growth of crops such as oats, potatoes, and
grasses of all varieties to form permanent pasture.
The field is divided into a number of plots. One of the
features of experiment will be to test the comparative
value of artificial manure.
A Spaniard has been hanged at Gibraltar for the
murder of a private of the Royal Engineers. This is •
the first execution Which has taken place there since
1862.
Speaking at the customary Easter banquet at the
Mansion House—the Lord Mayor presiding—Sir
Charles Tupper said, whatever might be the fate of
the great measures now before the country, there
would be found in India and the colonies resources
sufficient to maintain the power and greatness of Eng,
land.
The Queen was present on Monday at the confirma-
tion of Princess Victoria, the eldest daughter of Prince
Christian Her Majesty, 'accompanied by the Crown
Princess of Germany and Prince and Princess Henry
of Battenberg, drove, after luncheon, from the castle
to the Royal Chapel in Windsor Great Park, where the
Dukerand Duchess of Connaught, Prince and Princess
Christian, and the Duchess of Albany had assembled.
After the ceremony her Majesty, with other members
of the Royal family, drove across to Cumberland Lodge,
the residence of Prince and Princess Christian, and
later in the day !Ist:trued to the castle.
The Great Western Railway Company, after four
days' hearing, secceeded on Monday in quashing the
borough rate of Plymouth, in which the local
authorities had assessed them at £30,000 and casts
were given against the guardians. Tee objection was
to the general principle of the borough assessment.
Mr. Charles, Q.C., was foe the company, and Mr.
Edward Clarke, 0.C., for the guardians.
Nearly all the pass-books have now been received
from the depositors in the Cardiff Savings Bank, and
defalcations amounting to £3OOO more have been dis-
covered. This brings the total to £40,000. It has
transpired that Ferrier Williams, grandson of the late
actuary, has since the death of the latter received
£7O, which, not being accounted for, criminal proceed-
ings were being threatened, when young Williams re-
funded the money. Mr. J. D. Wride, one of the Cardiff
rate collectors, has been suspended for irregularities in
his accounts.
The Governors of Cork Lunatic Asylum on Monday
received a communication from the Lord-Lieutenaet,
in reply to the Board's recommendation that the
salaries of the officers of the institution be increased
by 10 pet cent., in which Lord Aberdeen stated that,
owing to the uncertainty with regard to the future
local government of Ireland, the recommendation
could not be entertained. The Board considered else
excuse a flimsy one, and asked to have the recommen-
dation reconsidered.
An eviction took place at Lombardstown, in the
county of Limerick, on Monday, the occurrence being
the first of its kind that has yet taken place in the
massy. The tenant was a labourer, named Wdliara
Ryan, who was recently. put in possessioa of the cot-
tage erected under the provisions of the Agricultural
Labourers (Ireland) Act. The Limerick Guardians re-
fused to recognise Ryan as tenant, and the sub-sheriff
was sent accordingly to eject him. A crowd collected,
and the chapel bell was rung, but Ryan was put ont
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