The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1887-06-11 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  BRITISH AND FOREIGN.  Replying to a memorial from the first-class telegraph clerks of the Central Telegraph Office, that they might be put on a more favourable basis in regard to the service, and that their prospects might be improved, the Postmaster-General writes that, after very carefully considering their claims, and while fully recognising the good service which they render to the department, he regrets that he does not see his way to recommend to the Treasury that any alteration should be made in their pay. The post of Commander-in-Chief at the Nora will be vacant early next month by the promotion of ViceAdmiral the Prince of Leiningen, 0.0 8., to the rank of full Admiral. Vice-Admiral Charles L. Waddilove, who was formerly second in command of the Channel Fleet, has been selected to succeed the Prince of Leiniogen in the command at the Nore. The Queen of Hawaii, the Princess Liliuokale.ni, and Lieutenant-General Dominis arrived at the Norwich (Trowse) Station of the Great Eastern Railway on Btiturday evening. Her Majesty was met at the station by the Mayor. The Royal party then proceeded to Rackheath Park, the residence of Captain Steward. On Sunday the Queen and party attended a service at Norwich Cathedral, and on Monday they visited Norwich, and inspected the principal objects of.. interest in the city. In the course of the day they were entertained at an dejenner in the Council rbamber at the Guildhall on the invitation of the Mayor.  A Burnley correspondent reports a sad occurrence at Oolne, near that place. On Saturday Mrs. Harriet Rushton, aged thirty five, went to walk with her husband and three children, aged seven, five, and twoand-a half years. The husband left his wife and children about four o'clock, and two hours later Mrs. Rushton cal ed at a sister's house and said she had "sent all the children to heaven." The sister went to the home of the Rushtons and found that the children h.d been strangled. It is believed that the mother is insane,  The Home Secretary has declined to remit the sentence of three months' imprisonment passed at Warwick Assizes on Lester and Rooney, who were rged with the murder of Colonel Fendall in Birmingham.  Tne State of affairs in the Mons district is less satis— factory. About 1000 men have again struck work • t Quesmes and Le Flenu. On the other hand, work has been completely resumed at Dour Boussu. The strikers at Frarneres, urged by the women, shuw great hostility towards he men who wish to resume work. Mr. Tricoupis, the Greek Premier, has submitted to the Chamber of Deputies a bile empowering the Government To contract a loan not exceeding 150,000,000 francs in gold. The Hon. E. Blake, Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons, acting on the urgent advice of his physician, has definitely retired from the leadership of the Liberal party, which will be placed uneer the directiGn of an advisory committee for the remainder of the session.  The large spirit, yeast, and malt manufactory at Jedlersdorf, near Vienna, has been destroyed by fire. A Berlin correspondent telegraphs that the German Emperor caught cold at Kiel, and has since been also suffering from indigestion. His contemplated journey o Liegnitz was therefore given up on the recommenda. tion of his medical advisers:  Early on Saturday morning one of the walls and part of the roof of St. John's (English) Church at Boulogne fell in. Five of the crew of the steamer Fern, including the master, were drowned in the Bristol Channel on Saturday, by collision with a sailing vessel. , Replying to an address from a Conservative association in the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton on Saturday, Lord Randolph Churchill said he had never doubted that it was perfectly possible. to make the principles and policy of the Conservative party acceptable to the great masses of the population. On Saturday a grand banquet was given in the Royal Courts of Justice by the Inoorporated Law Society in commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee. The Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, and Lord Chelmsford were among the guests. At a private meeting of the Nationalist members of the Dublin Corporation on Saturday, Mr. 11. J. Gill, M P. was selected to fill the office of Lord Mayor of the City for the ensuing year. At Dublin, on Saturday, an action for libel, brought by Miss Anthony, a lady well-known in the Irish Law Courts, against the "Irish Times" (Dublin) for an alleged libel, resulted in favour of the plaintiff, Chief Baron Panes, who beard the case in appeal without a jury, assessing the damages at