Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-05-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

KASSALA STILL HOLDING OUT. (Reuter's Telegrams.)  Sociaxix, May 11,  Lord Wolseley to-day visited the southern anchorage, where a large fleet of transports is moored. Tomorrow his lordship will proceed to Tambouk and inspect the Scots Guards. The Coldstream Guards will return here on Wednesday from Otao, where they will be replaced by the Grenadier Guards. The newspaper correspondents here had an interview this morning with Major Cohen, Military Secretary to General Graham, in order to draw up a letter to the General expressing their indebtedness for the courtesy always shown them by the military authorities.  Cam,. May 11,  Official telegrams received here state that Kassala is still holding out, but that the garrison have been reduced to eating .donkeys, as they have nothing left but a little sesame seed. It is added that the garrison urged the Governor to make an attempt at escape, but that he refused, as he had no orders to leave the town.  A l'Ensisis paper reports that the Mahommedan insurgents in Kashgar, whose leader is Yakoob Beg's son, have asked the Russian Consul in Kashgar to furnish them with arms, money, and ammunition, promising in return to place Kashgar under Russian sovereignty as soon as it is freed from the Chinese yoke. . - . .  WE understand that Sir W. G. Hunter, late of the Bombay Medical Service, and Dr. R. Thomas Thorne, the assistant medical officer of the Local Government Board, have started for Rome to represent the interests of England on the International Sanitary Conference, which is about to assemble at the invitation of the Italian Government for the discussion of measures of precaution against cholera. It is expected that the Conference will last for several weeks.  AT Newbiggin, Durham, a shocking accident has occurred to a man named Te ipie, who, along with sohe others, was making a demonstration to celebrate some wedding festivities. Temple fired a dynamite cartridge to produce a report, and in some way or other the cartridge, which he held in his hand, exploded, blowing his hand off. The fire was communicated to other cartridges in his trousers pockets, which also exploded with terrific force, causing immediate death.  ME Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company have commenced lighting their trains between Leeds, Manchester, and Liverpool -with the electric light, there being in both the engine and the guard's van a store of electricity sufficient to last six or seven hours.  IT is announced that Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., will not contest any constituency at the general election. MOSES SnuusPros was, at Worcester Assizes, sentenced to death for the murder of Police-constable Davis, at Alvechurch, on February 28. On the discovery of the crime search was made for the prisoner, a notorious thief and poacher, and he was arrested at Birmingham. His clothing was stained with blood, his boots corresponded with footprints on the scene of the murder, he had a knife from which blood stains had been partially removed, and his stick was picked up near the body. Mary Moreton, the woman with whom Shrimpton cohabited, who was charged with being an accessory after the fact, was acquitted. Tan steamer Cumbrian landed at Newport, Mon., the other day, the crew of five of the schooner Pleiades, from Rochester to Newport, which was run into by the Cumbrian and sunk off Ilfracombe at midnight preceding. The master of the Pleiades, Capt. Rees, of Aberayon Cardiganshire, became entangled in the rigging and went down with his vessel, but the crew managed to scramble on board the Cumbrian. The schooner sank within three minutes after being struck.  BISHOP TEMPLE has addressed a letter to the clergy of his diocese, in which he describes the rapid growth of the metropolis and the difficulty of building a sufficient number of new churches to keep pace with the increase of the population. He urges the clergy to endeavour to obtain additional pecuniary support for the fund.  _k