The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-08-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OOO. There ANSA one item which he very much 'disliked to see, and that was the item £15,000 for rates and taxes. (Hear, hear.) Those people who were continually demanding. this and demanding that would see that the public requirements were only met by a. very larce outlay, but he supposed it must be done. The net receipts were set out as being £1,350,000, and the available balance for dividend purposes was £620,000; and he would eel: them shortly to declare a dividend of ,R per cent. There were one or two other items to which ho wished to refer. • First there was the question of signalmen. They (the Company) were endeavouring to carry out such arrangements as would do away with the twelve hours system, by the adoption of a ten hours limit. Of MITI* they would require some amount of time to make such a change as that, and the building of new cottages for the convenience of the workmen must necessarily follow in order that they might be close to their boxes. With reference to the corridor trains he had every reason to believe they would become very popular. Then there was the Wear Valley Extension Scheme. It would cover some nine miles, and would be a comparatively inexpensive line, an expenditure of £40,000 over it having already been asked for a. 3 they Would see by the report; and hohoped'they would give the directors the necessary power to spend that amount. The land had been practically all boeght, and they hoped to make a commencement in April of next year. There V 13.9 another question of considerable importance to the Company, and it was with regard to the running of Sunday trains. They were continually, being asked for more Sunday trains, but for the sake of their servants, ap,, alto. gether from the question as to whether Wrwould be good policy on the part of the Company to increase the number, he sincerely hoped they would not be pressed by the public in this matter. (Hear, hear.) He moved the adoption of the report.—Sir JOi4HNI PRASE, Bart, M.P., seconded, and the report was carried.  Charles Squires (28), labourer, was executed on Thursday mornin g at Shepton Mallet, Somerset, fe r the murder of the two-year-old illegitimato child of his wife. The murder was a most cold-hlooded one. The child's cries awoke prisoner at midnight, and he suffocated it by holding his hand over its mouth and nostrils, afterwards returning to bed. In the morning he asked his wife to Kay she had overlaid it. Billiugton was the executioner.—At the trial at Wells Assizes, Squire's demeanour was very callous, but since the conviction he has been very atttntive to the chaplain and died penitent. He also wrote his wife asking her forgivene,a.—The Press was not admitted to the execution. The governorof thegaol subsequently informed the reporters that Squires had several hours' sleep on Wednesday night, and partook of a light breakfast. Ho walked firmly to the seaffold, a few yards from yr hieh he shook hands with all the officials, and thanked them for their kindness towards him. As the cap was being adjusted he exclaimed "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Death was instantanisznv. Kam. up your courage and keep down expense by using "