Widnes Examiner. — 1883-03-31 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

OOO. The fire caused some alarm in consequence of the proximity of other valuable buildings. The temperance organisation of Bolton have had a successful canvas for signatures to a petition for Sunday closing. The Wesleyan petition numbers 6,620; British Women's, 9,068; and other organisations 15,836, the aggregate total being 21,500. The signatures to the petition of the British Women's Association and joint organisations make a roll 164 yards long. At Glossop, on Thursday morning, John Fisher Gibbons, of the Addfellows' Arms, Mellor, was fined 20s. and costs for keeping open his licensed premises during prohibited hours on the sth instant. Six of twelve men who were found in the house when the police visited it, at 25 n2inutes. past eleven were each fined half-a-crown and costs. The defendant said the main-spring of his watch was broken. At Wigan, on Thursday morning, four milk dealers were summoned for selling milk adulterated with water, vaiying from nine to nineteen per cent. In every instance the milk had been sent to the defendants from the country, and the plea was that they sold it as they received it. The Bench said the defendants supplied the working classes with the milk, and it was an injustice to have such stuff. One defendant was fined £5, and the others lesser amounts. While the steam yacht Eagle, lately purchased by a gentleman in Southampton. was on her way from Aberdeen to Southampton, on Tuesday, she foundered bf St. Abbs Head. Two of the crew were drowned. A third died from exposure in a boat, in which the only survivor arrived on Wednesday at Coldingham, Berwickshire, after being 13 hours afloat. Two fishermen were drowned on Wednesday by their boat upsetting in Loch Ryan.  The Central Police authorities have received a letter, purporting to issue from the Fenian Society, intimating that if their "brethern," the Phoenix Park murderers, are not forthwith released by the Government, " sweet revenge will be had by the blowing up of the Central Post and Telegraph Buildings, at St. Martin's-le-Grand, during the present week." Special vigilance has, accordingly, been enjoined upon the police patrols, who will keep a strict watch on all visitors.  A PLUM PeDDING FROM THE PREMIER —Mr. Heywood, of Newark, received on a bursday morning the following letter from the Premier:—" lam exceedingly pleased to' hear that a dinner is to be given to the remaining 10 of the scot and lot voters who were on the register when I had my first electoral campaign in Newark over 50 years ago. Had any hope of being free to attend I would have begged the favour of an invitation for myself. As this cannot be I ask that I may be allowed to direct my cook to supply a plum pudding for the occasion, and I beg to be informed of the day so that it may not arrive too soon or too late." A Lloyd's telegram just received states that the steamer Durham, from New York, has arrived in the Downs, and signalled that she has on board 25 men, forming the crews of two vessels which had been in collision off the entrance to the Channel on Saturday last. Lloyd's agent at once went on board for particulars, and it appears that the vessels in question were the iron barque Henry Swayne, of Liverpool, 743 tons register, homeward bound from Peru to Queenstown, with a valuable cargo, and the Norwegian barque Anna, from the United States to France. The coin' sion was so serious that both vessels had _to be abandoned, ' and when left were fast sinking. MR.