Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-01-21 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE SOUTHWARK CORONER, MS. W. J. Payne, has held an inquest at Guy's Hospital, Lotdon, on the body of Mary Ellen Lacy, aged 5, residing at 6, Luceyroad, Southwark-park-road. The deceased waa being chased by a boy through a cross and narrow archway in St. James's-road, Bermondsey, which runs between two railway arches. Just at that moment a doctor's brougham was passing the point in question, and the de• ceased ran straight against the horse's front legs, and was struck with such force that she rebounded a..ainst the wall of the arch, and fell on her face, under the hind wheel of the carriage, which passed over her loins. She was at one taken to the hospital, but only lived a few hours. A verdict of "Accidental death "seas returned, And a rider added that the railway company be requested to widen the pathway under these arches. AN ADMIRALTY SUIT has been tried in the County-court, Brighton, in which the plaintiffs, owners of the Pilot, thg, of Shoreham harbour, sued the chairman of the harbour-trustees, for towing a dredger from the port of Littlehampton to that of Shoreham. The work was performed two years ago, and the plaintiffs admitted that they never thought of charging for it till the trustees purchased a tug of their own for harbour-purpost.. A verdict was given for the defendants. AT THE ANNUAL MEETING Of the Throat and Ear Dispensary, Brighton, a most satisfactory report was presented, and a movement was made to establish a building fund, the institution, the only one of the kind Its Sussex, being at present located in hired premises which have lobe vacated this year. .  AT A DLEETINO of the Shipping Committee of -  the Hull Chamber of Commerce attention was called to the injurious effects to shipowners of the Merchant Shipping Payment of Wages Act, 1880. It wee stated that all over the country cases of desertion had greatly increased since the Act came into force, and that in Hull, from Aug. 1,1880,10 Dec. 1,1881,538 cases of desertion had occurred Prosecutions were seldom undertaken, in consequence of the difficulty of catching the deserters. It was resolved to aupport a representation to be made to the Baud of Trade on the subject. Tins isrrenrous EFFECT of mixing wheat with the food given by waggoners to the horses under their charge is largely on the increase in the county of Lincoln. Only a week ago two waggoners were heavily fined at Brio for so doing. A waggoner named John Townhill, in the employ of Mr. Bramley, of Greetwell, has also been charged with misappropriating a mantity of his master's wheat. One of the horses under his charge was suddenly taken ill and died, and defendant being suspected, he admitted having given the horses wheat. He was fined 48s. 6d. AT THE PoLlefe-ooTAT, Nikon, Win. White • miner of Daisy Bank, was charged on a coroner's warrant with the manslaughter of his wife Hannah. The woman recently died in Wolverhampton Hospital, death being attributed to a diseased hip, caused, it is alleged, by her husband having kicked her. He was committed to the assizes. THE POOLE POLICE have apprehended on suspicion a man whose height, complexion, and other characteristics correspond reniarkably with the published description of John Ross, wanted for the murder of a young man naned John Manley, in Yorkstreet, Lee Is. The man had been begging in a public-house in Poole. and a woman with whom he is said to have had some difference, thinking he resembled Ross, gave information which led to his apprehension. He declined to give any account of himself, and the Lenin police have b.en communicated with. THE GENERAL COMMITTEE of the Aberdeen Farmers' Alliance has just met, Mr. Hay Ythsie, president of the association, in the chair. The secretary submitted letters from members of Parliament commenting on the resolutions adopted at the recent meeting of farmers. Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, writing from Wigtownshire, dealt with some of the resolutions in a critical spirit, and said he believed landlords shared with farmers the losses sustained in agriculture. A letter was also read from General Sir George Balfour, pointing out that in 1879 and 1880 the rental paid by farmers in the two divisions of Aberdeenshire amounted to £085,839, which was front two-thirds to three-fourths of the united rental of the esonty. Dr. Farquharson also, wrote approving of the resoidlons. Formal acknowledgments were received from Lord itosebery and General Sir Alexander Gordon AI the receipt of copies of the resohttione.