Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-05-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

WORKMEN'S TICKETS.  An important extension of the system of workmen's tickets has just been decided upon by the Great Eastern Railway Company. In addition to the special workmen's trains which the company have been running for some ymrs on their suburban lines at a uniform rate of 2d. per day, there will be issued workmen's tickets, at about half the ordinary fare. available by any train due at the Liverpool-street terminus not later than eight a.m., and for return by any train on the day of issue. As the latest of the special workmen's trains leave their starting point a few minutes after six am., and the tickets are not available for return until after four p.m. (except on Saturdays, when the time is twelve noon), this new arrangement will prove a great boon to a large number of persons who do not begin their work until eight or nine in the morning, and many of whom, obliged to come up by the early trains, had to wait about the streets for two or three hours.  Tan City of Winchester and the town of Newbury were in a state of great festivity the other day in connection with the opening of the Newbury and Winchester section of the Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Railway, by Lady Loyd-Lindsay. The civic authorities of Winchester and Southampton reached Newbury at mid-day by special train run over the new line, and, accompanied by the directors of the company, walked in procession to the Municipal Buildings, where they were received by the Mayor and Corporation: After luncheon the three corporate bodies and an influential party proceeded to Winchester, where the line was declared open by Lady Loyd-Lindsay; and a banquet afterwards took place at the Guildhall. _ .  r THE report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Westminster Hall restoration has just been issued. The committee aresubstantially in favour of the adoption of Mr. Pearson's plans. It is recommended that amongst other things there should be provided four rooms of sufficient ,size to be used as conference or deputation rooms. Such rooms mlght also, it is suggested, be used by Royal Commission. Mr. Pearson estimates the total cost of carryingout his design at £35,300. Of this amount £5OOO is the cost of completing Sir C. Barry's plans in St. Stephen's Perch; £BOOO is for rebuilding and repairingthe !lying buttresses, and for effecting necessary repairs to the western part of the hail; £BBOO is for raising the two towers on the north front; and £13,700 is the cost of the two-storied gallery under the cloisters, and the building at right angles to the hall. A CONGI4TUIATORY address and a purse of gold, containing .£2OOO, have bElen presented to the Right Rev. Monsignor Gilbert, D.D., who for twenty-Ave years has discharged the important duties of VicarGeneral of the Archdiocese of Westminster. _ _  Tits Managing Director of the Anarchist .Cri d Peupl4 has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment at the Seine Assizes for inciting, by an article lately appearing in that journal, to murder and military insubordination. PRIVATE LANG, City Of London Militia, GM at Aldershot, has been tried by court-martial on four charges of insubordination, and sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour. When the escort went to the guard-room to take him to prison, they found him crouched, naked, under te heavily built low bench. For many hours he baffled all efforts to get him out, until workmen were procured to remove the bench. Be then resisted desperately the putting on of his clothes, and had to be carried to a cell wrapped in a blanket. When in the cell he broke a window, cut his throat with a piece of glass severely, and is now lying in the hospital.