Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-08-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CAPTAIN HADFIELD AND MR. CHAMBERLAIN.  . - airki#  In consequence of statements made by Mr. Chamberlain in the House of Commons relative to the loss of certain ships belonging to Captain E. B. Hadfield, the latter gentleman wrote a month ago to the Earl of Aberdeen, Chairman of the Royal Commission of Shipping, asking permission to come before the Corn. mission and give evidence. He also wished to speak upon matters relating to the welfare of sailors. A fortnight afterwards Captain Hadfield renewed his request, asking leave to refute the allegations made against him, and to show that not a single life of any man in his service had been lost through any fault of the owners. In reply to these applications, the Secretary of the Commission wrote to inform Captain Hadfield that the time of the Commissioners was already filled up, nnd that they were not in a positioa to make any further arrangements with regard to receiving evidence. Captain_ Hadfield, in his reply. complained of the grievous damage done to his good name, and reserved his right to publish the correspondence.  AN extraordinary and fatal accident has occurred at Chatham. The superintendent of the military balloon constructive branch of the School of Military Engineering was instructing some subordinates in the charging of steel tubes with compressed hydrogen gas to be used in inflating balloons on field service. The tubes consist of steel cylinders two feet long and four inches in diameter. He had taken one in his hands and applied the vacuum pump, when, from some unexplained reason, it exploded with terrific force, striking him in the abdomen, and killing him on the spot. Major Templar, Chief of the Balloon Department, was immediately summoned and doctors fetched, but nothing could, of course, be done for the unfortunate . .  EDWMID BROWN, commission agent, of Hull, has been summoned at Goole for not having given notice, under the Explosives Act, to a Government inspector of the intention to import explosives. Also to answer two charges for the explosives being of a different character in composition to that specified in his licence and sending the same per the steamships Annie and Romeo. Defendant pleaded guilty, and evidence having been taken, the Bench convicted and ordered him to pay fine and costs, amounting altogether to £29 14s. 6d.  A PENALTY of £2O and 20s. costs, with the alternative of three months' imprisonment with hard labour, has been imposed by the Thames Police-court magistrate on a barman who had obtained a situation by a forged certificate of character. AT Hertford Assizes, William Taylor, a fishmonger, of Bishop's Stortford, has been sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude for setting fire to his premises with intent to defraud the insurance company. Two persons were asleep in the house at the time, but fortunately the police noticed the flames and extinguished the fire. A FATAL fight has taken place between two men named Hinds and Johnson, employed at a coal wharf inCrewe. Johnson, who was wider the influence of drink, challenged Hinds to fight. Several rounds having been fought, Hinds knocked Johnson down, and the latter was picked up dead.  Eionr whites have been 'massacred by Indians at Cypress Hills. Forty police have left for the scene of the murder, and forty more for Medicine Hat. Much excitement prevails in the district. . . . . .  Ram is midwinter in Australia, and the present season is described as one of the very coldest snd wettest ever known. Old colonists say the climate has altered and become colder even within their Memory.  #ll.,  AND away jug Ix that 0 new still h he ha be nu be ha  too= him t they t He wa but a  done I heart E boy fr escape course him. Archib knowr nine  Agit. ing to She wi and in 4 young aCCOMI was in  marrie never I to be I your b home, it take "1 d possy  No with a Noel, a fitting Immili shall In  "A , must h In six be reac "Ac " Pr(  "1-4; him lau that an when si I am m is too s  " We I shot lido' should A so across i told of  To Guy CI shrill a Was a 1 his fel him.