The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1905-12-09 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THS PASSING WSIIK.  Tbe Hdas smainoned Sir L CampbellHaasersess to an sinfonoe on Tuesday moraine. and invited him to fame an Administration. !lir Berry aompted his majesty's oommianisa. and kilned hands on his appointment ste Prime Mster and First Lord of the Tressary. His Haimig afterwards left London on a visit to Lord and Lady Alington at Criehel. He will return on Headley, when the new Prime Minister will submit the MIMS of his proposed eollesanes. The Mai, by proolainotion, dean*e the plume sad prandial* of die Prime Minister es mat after the Archbishop of York.  • • •  On Tiaseday afternoon • great partial of the huge rod of Charing Cross Station collapsed, and to its fedi wreaked the Avenue Theatre. Two mu were killed by the tcms of iron end masonry, others are missing, and in Charing Cress liespital • number of seriously injured men are debased. 'The eatentroplu caused the wildest alann, sad stopped all train at the station. whisk will net be available fee business for some days.  S • •  Mr. Juba Bargrave Doane, in the Diverse Court. on Tuesday, hoard the undefended petition of lire. Dameris Gardwyn, who was stated to be the wardrobe mistress of the Shakespeare Theatre,Liverpool, for a divorce on the ground of orueity and misconduct of bar husband, Francis Astbary Gordwyn, formerly • theutrieal manager, now stated to be in Chicago. • • • •  A North Wales deputation wainal upon Lord Londonderry on Tuesday to request the Education Department not to prohibit the nee of elatea in achools, and to withdraw it. recommendations on the .object.  • • •  Until William Yarnold was executed in Worcester Gaol on Tuesday, for the murder of his wife, there had not been an execution for • crime in the city for exactly 100 years. The last execution was in 1805, when John Slinky, alias Young, was publicly hanged on • tree in Salt-lane (en the site now occupied by the gaol), for forging a bill of exchange. Sanky addressed the spectators for half-an-hour, acknowledging the justice of his sentence. He then gore out three verses of a hymn, in the singing of which many people joined. After this he prayed aloud for himeeff and the spectators.  S • • •  We are officially informed that the King has been pleased to approve of the appointment of the Duke of Westminster to be his Majesty's Lieutenant for the County of Cheshire. In place of Lord Egerton of Tatton, who has resigned.  The people of St. Petersburg are reported to be secretly arming. The strikers have appealed to the public not to act as volunteer postmen. Some who were doing so have been attacked. Thousands of Russian fugitives are passing through Galioia on their way to England and America. _ _ _  ••• t •  "Mark twain's" seventieth birthday was -celebrated on Wednesday night by a banquet at Delmonico's, New York, at which 190 writers were present. Each guest received a bust, half life size, of the celebrated author. Potty English authors.— among them Mr. George Meredith, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Sir Gilbert Parker, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—cabled their congratulations, and President Roosevelt sent a laudatory message.  U • • •  Mme. Bernhardt, in an interview with a French-Canadian paper, said she thought Canada a magnificent country, but the people were devoid of literary and artistic tastes, and most of them were willing to be ground under the heels of the priests. On Wednesday night a mob collected after the performance end threw rotten eggs at the actress and her party, some of whom were hit by the missiles.  Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman is making steady progress with the teak of forming a Ministry, and an Thursday bad interviews with several of the Liberal leaders. There was a rumour current in London on Thum day that the Prime Minister will be elevated to the House of Lords.  Mr. H. F. Compton was on Thursday returned Conservative member of Parliament for New Forent, having polled aNle votes as against 4,30 recorded for his Liberal opponent, Sir Robert Hobart.  Herr Rebel. the 8001 AI Democratic leader, in the Reichstag on Thursday made a strong attack upon the foreign policy of the Government, which he accused of acting Provocatively tower& other Powers, particularly E.ngllid.  • •  The Registrar-General reports that the annual rate of mortality in 76 large towns of England and Wales last week averaged IV per 1,000. In Birkenhead the rate was 14, in Liverpool 21, and in Bootle Si.  ' A &