Widnes Examiner. — 1884-03-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL BILL.  The Lords Committee on the Ship Canal Bill on Monday hear I further evidence from Mr. Marshall Steven, shipping agent, of Liverpool and Gersten. Afterwards Mr. Richard Hartley, a director, and for ten years the manager of the Old Si!Katona and Dodworth Colliery Company, near Barnsley, was examined to show how the proposed canal would benefit his district. In the course of his statement he said it was estimated that the amount of coal in Yorkshire still to be worked was 23,000.000,000 tons, practically an inexhaustible snooty He thought that 3,000 000 tons of c eel per year might very shortly pass over the Ship Canal from the Yotkshire coalfield. Mr. Leader Williams, the engineer, was called to describe his scheme for the construction of tha Ship Canal, and he was under examination when the Comtnitcee adjourned. Mr. Leader Williams, the engineer of the Ship Canal schema, was under examination throughout Tuesday. He I went fully into the question of plans, and explained in what respects the present proposals differed from those of last year. The examination of Mr. Leader Williams, the engineer, was continued on Wednesday. Being pressed by the chid.man (the Duke of Richmond) te say whether he could guarantee that no injury would be done by the canal to the estuary of the Mersey, the witness said the best answer ha could give WAS that Manchester was prepared to spend such a large stun of money in making a canal which would be rendered useless if the bar or the estuary were injured in the way the opponents of the bill suggested. The Chairman asked if the promoters were taking powers to carry out whatever works in the estuary should be ordered by the Mersey Ci.mmiesieners. r. Pember (counsel for the Bill) sold he believed that at some future time Admiral Spratt (the acting Conservator) would come to the conclusion that the appieheneion expressed by him in his report was unfounded, but the Commissioners had insisted that the works should be made obligatory on the promoters, and a clause to this eifoct had been agreed to. In mentioning that the committee would rise to-morrow week for the Easter recess, the Chairman said they had no wish to shorten the inquiry, and they did not thirk that any time had been wasted so far. On Thursday Mr. Abrirnathy, Cs., Was examined on behalf of the promoters of the bill. He said he had gone carefully into the estimates and was satisfied that they were sufficient for the work. Tne witness was followed by Mr. Deas, engineer to the Clyde Navigation, and Mr. Fowler, engineer to the Tees Conservancy. The latter gentleman said he considered that the estuary of the Tees resembled to a great ex:ent that of the Mersey, and am iujurioas influence whatever had been exercised upon it by the execution of the works; indeed, the effect of the works uptm the bar at the mouth of the Tees had been to entirely carry away the southern part of it and to increase the depth of the water over the rest from 4ft. Bin. to lift. He saw no reason why the same result should not follow from the works in the estuary in the Mersey as had followed from the works oil the Tees.  The inquest on the body of the womin MAry Ann Yeats, who was murdered in a house in Burton Crescent, London, was concluded on WednesdAy. Evidence w,r.s given showing that the deceased was found in the streets at the age of five years and taken to a charitable institution. She was afterwards in service until three or four years ago, when she commenced leading an irregular life. Profceser Pepper sCki death was evidently c ward by strangulation with a to.r. I. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against somo person.anknown.  _ , • Rav's COMPOUND; e demulcent anodyne expectorant. for Coughs Ind Colds. Bold by all Chemists, sp., , Pi, Pd. goo