The Northern Guardian. — 1896-03-20 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

NEWS IN BRIEF.  It is in contemplation to establish a Wesleyan College at Scarborough. The Vie Parisienne, a French paper, has found out and proved that to be well-dretosed a man requires £6OO a year. The Chief Factory Inspector of the Home Office, Mr R. E Sprague Oram, retired yesterday, after nearly half a century's service. Once at Savannah, 40 schoolgirls invaded Miss Mary Anderson's dressing-room in the theatre, and insisted upon kissing her in turn. The London Drury Lane pantomime finishes on Saturday evening, after a season the most prosperous Sir Augustus Harris has ever known. _  The execution of some of the finest French tapestry is so slow that an artist cannot produce wore than a quarter of a square yard in a year. Earl Grey, the new Administrator of Rhodesia, paid a visit to the House of Commons on Wednesday, and had an interview with the Colonial Secretary. A bride in Montreal appeared at the altar with her pet canary fastened to her shoulder by a golden chain. During the marriage ceremony the bird broke into song. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Lowthian Bell, as ex-Mayor of Middlesbrough, has been granted the honorary rank of colonel in the North Yorkshire Artillery Volunteers.  The Duke and Duchess of York, accompanied by the Duke anfl Duchess of 'Peck, witnessed the performance of "For the Crown" at the Lyceum Theatre, last evening. To-morrow is the "silver wedding" anniversary of Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne. They were married on March 21, 1871, in the private chapel at Windsor Castle. The Duke of Devonshire has just given a site worth £l,OOO for a new church at Buxton, and given donations of £l,OOO and £5OO towards the restoration of two others.  A workman named McNeish, on joiiiing a crowd at Paisley yesterday to see what was the matter, was horrified to find that his own little boy, aged five, had been run over and killed. At Swindon, yesterday, Charles Pearson (20), labourer, was committed for trial charged with placing an obstruction on the Midland and SouthWestern Junction Line, near Swindon, on Wednesday.  An interesting conjunction is raised by the selection of Mr Roche as•the Nationalist candidate for East Kerry. Mr Roche is the brother of Lord Fermoy, and another brother is married to a daughter of Mr Goschen.  It is probable that the Queen's birthday will be celebrated officially in London on Saturday, June 6, in which case the Ministerial full-dress banquets will be given on that day, and Lady Salisbury will have a large reception at the Foreign Office. Lieutenant J. B. de la Poer Beresford, late of the Durham Light Infantry, has accepted a commission in the srd Battalion of the Sher .vood Foresters, of which Lord Roberts, V.C. (colonel of the Newcastle Artillery Volunteers), is the honorary colonel. Mr Charles Villiers, the father of the House of Commons, is to be presented with a testimonial in recognition of his lifelong devotion to the cause of Free Trade, on the 50th anniversary of the repeal of the Cern Laws, which occurs on June 27th next. The Vienna newspapers express gratification at the appointment by Queen Victoria of the Emperor Francis Joseph to the colonelcy of the King's Dragoon Guards, which they regard as fresh proof ,of the cordial relations existing between the two empires.  Mr Arthur Lindsey Wood, eldest son of Mr Lindsey Wood, J.P., The Hermitage, Chester-le. Street, attains his majority on the 28th inst. Steps are being taken to publicly celebrate the occasion in a manner befiting the high esteem in which the house of Wood is held in the County Palatine. Khabl Zia Effendi, of the Turkish Reform League, whose letter to Mr Gladstone, in which the Sultan was stated to be "ruining the Ottoman Empire by murderous mis-rule " recently appeared in the press, left Paris on Wednesday evening for Brume's, in consequence of a private warning from the French police. .  Among the British officers with the Egyptian Army ordered to advance on Dongola are Captain Cecil Edward Keith Falconer, of the Northumberland Fusiliers; Lieutenant Norman Ernest Play. fair, of the King's Own Scottish Borderers ; and Captain Percy Wilfrid Machell, son of the Rev. Canon Machell, of York.