Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1883-07-14 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ROYALTY AND THE REPORTERS.  The feats of the explorers of bygone times are quite thrown into the shade by the achievements and resource of the modern "interviewer," especially of the Transatlantic species. The representative of a New York paper has lately succeeded in " interviewing " the King of Italy, and has had the privilege of receiving from his august lips the assurance that "he himself, if he were not a King, would like to be a .reporter." Such generosity to one's persecutors is indeed royal. But even this fortunate reporter is outdone by a rival of the New York World„ who "has managed' in spite of incredibll difficulties to secure an interview " with the Queen of England, and has thus "triumphed over obstacles beyond the most daring conception of the American mind." The nature of the triumph may be judged from the following passage of the conversation between her Majesty and the narrator: The Queen (with animation)— •I have seen the World. It is, they tell me,the English newspaper of America. I find it a vary intelligent newspaper, and in many respects *, ast amusing, like nearly all your American newspapers." The Correspondent—" Your Majesty' most gracious approval will be most gladly and respectfully appreciated by the gentleman who at present controls it. It may be news to your Majesty that we are under a new regime." The Queen (with evident interest)—" You have had another revolutio n then in Amenca ? I was not aware of it." The Correspondent: "May it please your Majesty, the World has revolved once more round its own axis." The Queen: "I believe the Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise have received a good deal of kindness and attention at the hands of the Americans. I shall be glad if you would be enough to express my proper appreciation o their loyalty." The Correspondent—" I venture to take the liberty of assuring pour Majesty that your Majesty personally and your Majesty's Government may confidently depend upon enjoying in the future the same cordial and unstinted support which the late conductors of the World had the extreme honour of humbly extending to your Majesty and your Majesty's Government in the past. And may it please your Majesty, the World, under its new management, will lose no opp ortunity to reiterate over and over again, with unflagging vigour the immortaltruth that we are one people, speak ing the same language, worshipping the same Deity, inheriting the same traditions, and developing the same interests of an identical civilisation." The writer was surely bett r employed in inventing this conversation than in reporting the platitudes of a genuine "interview."—Pall Mall Gazette.  Sentenoe of six months' hard labour has been passed at Birmingham on Albert Haines, a ticket-of-leave man, who broke a broom handle in beating his wife, and having knocked her down, knelt upon her, and nearly bit through her nose.  Peter Bray, a returned convict, has been arrested at Durham for the murder of Thomas Pyle, a platelayer, in April, 1882. Pyle was beaten to death with a hedge stake, his head being dreadfully battered. Although nearly 18 months have elapsed since the murder,this is the first arrest in connection with the crime.  The Pioneer of India gives an account of an exploit of Tantia, the notorious robber chief, in the Central Pro- vinces. Not long ago, he, with a band 200 strong, turned up at a village in the Minar district in the uniforms respectively of the police-inspector and his subordinatcAuartered himself on the village meadman, and when his demand of 1,000 rupees was demurred to, he plundered the hamlet, and laid a heavy punishing hand on the chief inhabitants. A special officer has started in inn-suit.  A serious railway a.cident has been narrowly avoided on the Great Western lia9, between Taunton and Bristol. To enable residents in the neighbourhood of Bath to attend the Taunton Horse Show, the Great Western ran a special train from Bristol and back. On reaching Dunball, on the return journey, the first carriage left the line and blecked it. A down train, the 8.15 from Bristol, was then due, and the officials were only just in time to stop it. Had they not succeeded a terrible accident would inevitably have occurred. The passengers were severely shaken and bruised, one gentleman being thrown across the compartment and partly dashed through the window,