Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1897-09-17 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

DEATH OF SIR W. WINDEYER.  The death is announced from Boulogne, from paralysis of the heart, of Sir William Wiudeyer, Deputy Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court, some time senior palette judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Chancellor of Sydney University 1835-96, aged 63 years. William Charles Windeyer was born at Westminster, and was the eon of Richard Windeyer, barrister-at-law. In l'cit; his parents removed to Sydney. He was educated at King's School, Paramatta, and Sydney University, and was a member of the New South Wales Parliament from 1859 to 1879. when he was elevated to the Bench. He was knighted in 1891.  Mr. Join Bailey, a well-known Derby magistrate, died at Derby on Monday, in hiti bOtb yer!r. ' • .  It is announced that the Queen has sent as a gift to the Emperor William an album containing photographs of the Jubilee festivities in London, and the review at Spithead. Lerd Charles Beresford thinks that the Irish Royal residence ought to be endowed to the extent of £lOO,OOO a year, independent of the initial cost. The Church surplus, he thinks, might provide the money. A marriage engagement is imumincea oetween toe Hon Osbert Molyneux, son of the late Earl of Sef ton, and the Hon. Hoimes Bridgman, daughter of Vis• count and Viscountese Newport A legacy of £386 6e. 241. has been received by the Irish Distressed Ladies' Fund under the will of the late Miss Margaret Penrose. The Secretary of State has released from Portland Convict Prison William Johnson, who on July 9th, 1887, at Quetta General Court-martial, VMS sentenced to death for wilful murder._  A cab proprietormamed Price attempted,on Thursday morning, at West Wickham Railway Station, to get into a train while it was in motion, and was knocked down between the platforiu and train and killed. A letter hearing the address " hierr Andree, North Pole," has been found at the General Post Office, Berlin. It was written in all seriousuessoind the authorities have returned it to the writer, with the superscription "Unknown." "Paris Journal."  Ott Wednesday evening the Bury (Lancashire) police raided several barbers-shops and public-houses which were suspected of being used for betting. Two master barbers and the wife of a beerhouse keeper were arrested, and were on Thursday brought before the magistrates. who remanded them.  At Gateshead, 315 pitmen, empliyed at Washing. 1011 Colliery, were summoned for leaving their .inployment without proper notice, and each was ,rdered to pay 355. damages claimed by the owners.  At the Clerkenwell Police Court, shllll9fl Harding Wllfi convicted of setting a fox-terrier to kill a cat, nd sentenced by Mr. Fenwick, who said the prisoner had been guilty of a piece of wanton brutality, to fourteen days' imprisonment. The late Mr. John Ruston, M.P. for Lincoln oo l-s 6, who died at his residence, Monk's Manor, Lincoln, on June 10 last, leaves gross personalty amounting to £912,303. His executors are Mr. A. S. Leslie Melville, and Mr. R. J. Ward, of Lincoln. The wild-dogs' kennel at the BOA de Boulogne " Zoo " has been enriched by an Abyssinian specimen, the gift of M. Bavelaert. There are now there pampas, prairie, Australian, Pliukwok Island, Congo, and Turkish wild dogs, and the edible dog of China, which, it appears, is counted as game by the Celestials.  Writing about the marriage of English girls with Indians, a correspondent of the " Telegraph " 'aye: In my humble opinion, it were better for English girls to remain unmarried all their lives than to endure the social degradation and lifelong ruin and suffering that marriage with any "man of eolour "  A great impetus is about to be given to manual training in connection with the Board schools ot London. Before the cud of December the 127 centres for such training will have grown to 150, available by nearly all the schools under the Board. At present about a third of the schools are practically unable to make use of the centres. Not merely the desire to perpetuate the supremacy of British over foreign workmen has prompted the increase ; it ie partly to a conviction that children who receive manual instruction take more interest in the ordinary lessons and are generally brightened. Boys, for exaniple, who have received instruction in carpentry draw with added zest. Moreover, manual-instruction pupils often remain at school till the age of 15 or lc, while the withdrawal age among the others is usually 12 or 13. In this important work tho Board already employs an organiser, two assistants, and nearly 200 instructors, not one of whom is allowed to teach more than 20 pupils at once.