The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-06-03 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

EVERYTHING.  THE new line of railway between Bournemouth and Christchurch has been inspected on behalf of the Board of Trade, and will be opened in a very short time.  IT is said that a representative of a Belgian firm now at Dover is prepared to supply the 20,000 rifles advertised for by the Ulster Loyalists at Bs. each. . .  A HAMBURG paper assures us that the betrothal of the eldest daughter of the Prince of Wales with Prince Oscar of Sweden will take place soon. It is only delayed by the refusal of the Swedish Reichstag to grant the requisite appannage to the Prince.  MANY transatlantic steamers arriving in the Mersey report having passed icebergs or floating ice. Hundreds of icebergs were seen off the banks of Newfoundland. Some were very large, and could be seen extending in all directions as far as the eye could reach. The steamer Falcon was disabled by the ice off the Canadian coast, and the barque  ONE hundred and seven architects have sent plans f,T the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 to the technical committee. Eighty-nine have already been rejected, and the remaining eighteen will be examined in detail.  NERO, the black preacher, has brought an action against the Glasgow Weekly Mail, claiming £3,000 for alleged slander.  THE Home Secretary has authorised the enforce. meat at Canterbury of a bye-law similar to that adopted at Truro, vesting in the police and magistrates more control over the outdoor performance of the Salvation Army. The bye-law gives power to compel the suspension of all musical performances on the streets under certain circumstances. BETWEEN the Ist April last and the 22nd inst. the revenue receipts amounted to £12,645,811, as compared with £13,825,285 in the corresponding period of the last financial year, and the expenditure to £11,973,753. as against £13,004,909. THE sentence of death passed by Mr. Justice Hawkins at the Chester Assizes on Robert Travis, hotel-keeper, for the murder of Jane Wlntyre, at Massey-road, Tranmere, has been commuted by the Home Secretary to penal servitude for life. IT was stated at the annual meeting of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children that during the year 549 cases had been investigated. Lord Brabazon, who presided, said he had found that the Council of the Society took a common-sense view of the questions which came before them.  IT is reported in Belfast that for some time past rifles and swords have been arriving at Belfast, consigned to various parts of Ulster, but they were detained by the police until further information regarding them was received. On Saturday forenoon a consignment for a firm in Armagh arrived by the Fleetwood steamer. There were about two dozen rifles, together with bayonets. They were seized and detained by the police. On Saturday, in presence of a large and distinguished company, Princess Christian unveiled a statue of John Hunter, presented to the Oxford University Museum by the Queen. THE priest who was said to have received Lord Beaconsfield into the Catholic Church on his deathbed, writes denying the report. He was not in London during the whole time of his lordship's illness and death.