The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1875-01-30 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

SOD. At Liverpool, on Tuesday, Edward Nolan was committed for trial for having caused the death of his wife by kicking her. An order was issued at Aldershot, on Tuesday, directing the commencement ot Martini-Henry rifle practice on the Ist prox. The principal firms in the tube trade in South Staffordshire have given notice of return to the ten hours' system. .A strike is expected. Mr. John Mitchell, who is at present in America, will be put in nomination for Tipperary in the event of Colonel White retiring, An aged farmer, named Richard Moran, has ben brutally murdered at Kilbegging, King's County. A tramp is in custcdy on suspicion. The Dundee ironworkers' dispute is settled, the masters having agreed to leave the 51 hours' system undisturbed. The men have returned to work. Mr. Woolner's statute of Lord Pahnerston, which is to be erected in Parliament-square, was on Saturday to be cast at the Manor Ironworks, Chelsea. It is stated that in the possible event of Sir R. Baggallay being raised to the bench. Sir Trevor Lawrence would be the Conservative candidate for Mid Surrey. The Sultan of Zanzibar, with whom Sir Bartle Frere negotiated his tielty for suppressing the African slave trade, is expected to visit London next summer. It is said that the Secretary of State for the Home Department is actively engaged in preparing a measure for the improvement of workmen's dwellings in large towns. A boy who picked up a shawl in a London street, and was given into custody for stealing it, has been awarded £l5 by the Court of Common Please for false imprisonment. The Glebe states that the Government has demanded from Pens an explanation and apology for having removed a passenger from the British merchant steamer Santiago, at Callao. The Countess A. de Noailles has sent a cheque for £5O to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in aid of the movement for the repression of vivisection.  It is a remarkable circumstance that hardly a single officer who took part in the Ashautee War has escaped climatic disease up to the present time, except Sir Garnet Wolseley himself. A fire broke out on Tuesday morning at the bleachworks of Mr. Hugh Roberts, at Bury, and damage was done to the amount of £399. It was suppressed by the workmen on the premises. There are at present over 500 trained carrier pigeons in the cotes of the Jardin d'Aclimatation, and as the numbers increase colombiers will be furnished to all the military fortresses of France. Eliza Thurlby, servant to Mr. Paddington, of Sutterton, Lincolnshire, has been committed for trial on the , charge of attempting to. poison the whole family by putting arsenic in a pudding. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine and his son, Mr. Walter Ballantine, who are retained in the forthcoming case of the Guico war of Baroda, were to leave London via Brindisi for Bombay, by the mail yesterday (Friday). It is understood, in certain ciicles in London, that a gentleman who until recently held a commission in a popular regiment, has resigned it in order to commence An action for slander against his late colonel. Two boNs, named Duncan and Wood, quarrelled while crossing the river Dee, at Aberdeen, two days ago, when Wood gave Duncan a severe blow on the stomach Duncan died on Sunday, and Wood is now in custody.