The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1916-02-19 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  Joseph Frost, wardrobe dealer, Shrewsoury, who the police stated went under three names, was at Shrewsbury on Saturday sentenced to four months' hard labour for using language in an hotel characterising the King as a German impostor and saying that the Government were traitors to the country. The Mayor, in 'sentencing Frost, said his offenoo was most serious. He also had a bad record, over twenty years for pocket-picking and robberies from persons. -  The hearing was concluded at the Old Bailey, London, on Monda3, of the case against William Gardiner Rigden, Wm. Fownes Thigdon, and Stanley Fownes Rigilen,three of six partners in the well-known firm of Fownes Bros. and glove manufacturers. who are charged with unlawfully trading with the enemy. They were Sound guilty, and the following sentences were passed :—William Gardiner Rigden lined 2300, William Fownes Rigden 12 months' imprisonment in second division, and Stanley Fownel Rigden four menthe' imprisonment in second division. The defendants were further ordered to pay the wets of the prosecution.  When the tide receded at Southend foreon Saturday. inspector Brand found the body of a well-dressed young woman standing upright against the grating of the new esplanade baths. She has not yet been identified. _ _  -i • • •  The "Handelablad" correspondent. at Brussels wires under date the 12th inst.: A blood-red placard announces that on February 9 Lodavyk Brit, a cafe waiter in Brussels, was sentenced to death and executed for the murder of a certain person named Keels. the son of a Belgian officer. The execution seems to be connected with the murder of the person who is believed to have denounced Mies Cavell.  A pig, which for reasons unexplained is a passenger on Carmania, or. at iany rate. was on that wade' three days ago, is the subject of a portentous announcement occupying more than half a oolumn in Tuesday night's "London Gazette." The unfortunate porker, apparently an alien, is indisposed. and the Board of Agriculture have, therefore. issued a special order defining Whale island, Portsmouth harbour, as a quarantine station for the specific purpose of the landing of the animal described in the schedule.  • • • •  News has reached Rhyl of the disath at tise front hr a sniper's bullet of Captain J. Gordon Davies, of the Ist Rhondda Battalion GM Welsh Regiment). Captain Davies was an excsedingly popular officer, and was the thampion boxer of the western command, winning this challenge cup at the military boxing compebition held at Liverpool last summer. He was for a lime acting adjutant of the regiment when at Rhyl.  • • •  We regret. to annesnce the death of Lord Ridley, who succeeded his father, the link Viscount. Ridley, in 1994. lie was only 41 years of age, and was best known to the public as President of the Tariff Reform League.  • • • •  Mr. F. W. Hirst, editor of the "Fconorniwt," speaking at the School cf Lomelilies, in London, on Tuesday, said that porsonatly he thought we should be very Jacky if in the five years after the war we have half as ranch new capital for in. vestment as in the fire years preceding the war. We were creating every month about as much new debt as we created in the three yr,ars of the Boer War, and we were creating every fivg months about as much as we created in twenty years cif the WILTS with revolutionary and islaipoleonic France.  A War Office letber ko Kent Territorial officers who ivied on fol home service only has informed them that hPy must either •.inderbake the foreign PP rvice obligation or reign their commissions.  Sir John Simon, K.C., the late Home Secretary, made his first appearance in the law courts on Tuesday, since he reeignation from tho Cabinet.