The Warwickshire Herald. — 1885-07-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MISCELLANEOUS  A 01131.011 foundry has been established at Herat forth. casting of heavy VIM  It is proposed to erect light-houses on the rambles and South Chedubs reefs, off the Arakan coast. The Cunard steamer Gallia, with nearly 400 passengers on board, has been passed disabled in the Atlantic.  The Prince of Wales has consented to open the new Town-ball at Gosport, which has been erected at a cost of £20,000.  A new dock which has been constructed at Silloth, on the Cumberland coast, at a coat of £90,000 has just been opened.  The single-handed match between the Universities was played at Lords on Wednesday. Oxford won by three setts to one.  Constables doing duty in various parte of Essex are to be armed. This is a remit of the murder of Inspector Simmons.  At Nottingham a horse attached to a trap containing two women bolted, and one of them jumped from the trap and was killed.  The original George Harris of Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is lecturing in Detroit. Ile was born in 1817, and hie mother was a slave. Colonel Sir Charles Wilson has resumed his duties as head of the Ordnance Survey for Ireland, • post he vacated on going to the Soudan.  The railway system of Japan has attained a length . of 225 miles, and is increasing steadily. It has been mainly built by the Japanese Government with native capital.  Lady Burdett-Coutts, in order to encourage beekeeping by the working classes, has presented each of six holders of allotments at Highgate New Town with a beehive.  The remainder of the naval pensioners at Portsmouth who joined the ship. of war during the Russian crisis have just been discharged from further service.  Florida has entered the list of competitors for the Northern flower market. A horticulturist of that State has recently shipped 30,000 tuberose bulbs to dealers in the North.  Mr. James Robinson, 4.Z.C., her Majesty's first Serjeant-at-Law in Ireland, died on Wednesday. He was for many years leader of the Connaught Bar, and twice went circuit as a temporary judge.  Unusual obesity is a disqualification for police service in Brooklyn. The police of that city are to be subjected to examination next month, and all who measure more than 45 inches round the waist will be dismissed.  Alfred Couch, a young man of 2.1, son of the Rev. Dr. Enos Couch, of Stratford (a gentleman who for 30 years has been interested in sailors' missions), has been accidentally drowned in the Thames at Limehouse.  A man, named John Riordan, arrested at Limerick as a suspicious character, when searched was found to have £l3 10s. in silver, in six small tugs. Riordan said he was a beggar from Kaiaturk, county Cork. He was discharged. The Rev. Sir Henry John Gunning, Bart., for many years rector of Wigan, Lancashire, has died at St. Peter's, Aldwinkle, Northampton, aged 87. He is succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Major George William Gunning. A Melbourne telegram states that several ts have been made in connection with the recent robbery at the suburban branch of the National Bank of Australasia. The prisoners have been committed for trial, bail being refused. The South Australian revenue for the past financial year amounted to £2,150,000, being L'271,000 below the Estimates. The Customs revenue decreased in the same period by £lOO,