Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-06-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHAM FIGHT AT ALDERSHOT.  The Prince and Princess of Wales witnessed a most interesting sham fight at Aldershot on Tuesday last. Nearly eight thousand men, with fifty-two guns, were on parade, and these were divided into two forces 'odor Sir Daniel Lysous and Colonel Lenwere, of the Royal Engineers. The latter force was supposed to be the advanced guard of an enemy marching on Aldershot; and took up a position at the base of Cmsar's Hill, facing north. The force under Sir Daniel Lysons formed on the Cool Hill, and shortly after , eleven o'clock advanced to the attack, the advance of the skirmishers, the demonstration of the cavalry, and the movements of the big guns making a splendid , scene. Ultimately the advance guard of the invading army was driven bank upon Farnham. A large staff from the Horse Guards witnesset the battle.  In the Probate Division on Tuesday Sir Jas. klaunen granted probate of the will of the late Mr Waiter Powell, who was last seen alive drifting to sea in the balloon Saladin on the 10th of December last. The twenty-five miles bicycle match for the championship belt was run on Saturday at Leicester between Wood, of Leicester, and James, of Birmingham, and resulted, for the second time, in a dead heat. At Carrick-on•Shaunon on Sunday a mob attempted to drag a process-server named Cooke from his house. The police protected him with drawn revolvers. One arrest was made.  Oa Saturday, a young man named John Hunt, aged 21 years, was accidentally drowned in the Tweed, near Berwick, by falling out of a boat. The last rail of the Canadian and Pacific Railway between Prince Arthur's Landing and Winnipeg was to be laid on Saturday, and the railway will be opened on the let of July. A resolution of the Synod has been approved by the Emperor, prohibiting in Russia persons who are not Christians from public trading in holy pictures, crosses, and vessels used in Christian worship. On Saturday the nomination and election of Mr R. W. Duff, as member of Parliament for the county of Banff, took place. There was no opposition. Mr Duff is re-elected on his appointment as a Lord of the Treasuary. On Sunday evening the sentries round the various Government eetablishments in Devonport were ordered to be doubled. This is rumoured to be in consequence of the receipt of an anonymous letter professing to disclose some Fenian plot for blowing up some of the Government buildings. The ship Freeman Clark, which has arrived at New York from Calcutta reports that the captain was brutally murdered while asleep in his berth by the Chinese steward, and that the Chinese cook attacked and badly wounded the chief officer. The crew thereupon killed both the Chinamen and threw their bodies overboard. No cause can be assigned for the outrage, the captain being well liked by those on board. The Danish mail steamer Archorn, which arrived at Leith on Saturday from Iceland, brings intelligence of shipwreck and loss of life on that coast. The Danish schooner Bella, Captain Torges, and the Lovenorn were wrecked on May 25th, and all hands, thirty-two in number, were drowned. The Danish schooner Sigbnrder, which left Copenhagen in April, has not been heard of since. The Brilliant Star, of Fleetwood, from Liverpool, capsized on the Iceland coast on the 21st of April. The crew of seven were saved, but the mate afterwards died from exposure. As a safe, permanent and warranted cure for Pimples, Scrofula, Scurvy,had Legs,Skin and 131004 Diseases, and Sores of all kinds, we can with <muffdome recommend