The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-11-11 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

IRSI. (For Foram( Nem cc 4th Page).  A BOAT belonging to the French barque Proper° Come, of Dieppe, has sunk at Pauillac and thirteen men were drowned. Tim Treasury has, awarded the late Astronomer Royal Sir George Airy, a pension of £l,lOO per annum, in consideration of his long and valuable services. Ar Chalon-sur-Saone on Wednesday the Public Prosecutor was assassinated in his bed, and the murderei escaped. The deceased was found lying with his head fearfully cut. The instrument which had been used was evidently a knife. Although life was not extinct when the crime was discovered, the victim expired without haying recovered consciousness. AN able seaman named John Smye was assisting in sending down the royal yards of Her Majesty's ship Duncan, at Sheerness, when he missed his footing on the 2ross•trees and fell a distance of 140 ft., striking an irondavit used for getting up coal, and then falling overboard on to the bows of a steam pinnace lying alongside the ship. Both of his legs were broken and an arm was fractured. He was alive when picked up, but ;di& shortly afterwards. BILLINGSGATE is to be retained as a water-side fish market, and an inland fish market is to be established in the neighbourhood of Smithfield, where the Corporation of London are erecting a building for the wale of fruit, flowers, and vegetables. ON Monday evening a hurricane, such as is not known in the memory of man, burst with sudden and resistless fury over Naples. Not only were numberless windows smashed by the force of the wind and chimneys thrown down, but even the roofs of several houses were blown off. Omnibuses, tramcars, and other vehicles were overturned. Tee gas was extinguished in several streets, and some of the gas lamps were blown down. Trees were uprooted and walls were overturned. Two fishing vessels were lost while trying to make the port, and a man and a boy were drowned. The Roma, ironclad, was blown from her moorings and carried broadside against the ironclad Principe Amadeo, but fortunately without either sustaining serious damage. DURING last month the officers of the Fishmongers Company seized at and near Billingsgate Market and on board boats lying off that place 16 tons 12 cwt. of fish as unfit for human food. THE Execution of William Oemond, coppersmith, of Birmingham, now lying at Chester Castle under aentenc• of death for the murder of his wife, Hannah, at Bissdbury. near Stockport, will take place on the 14th. Petitions are being extensively signed at Chester recommending the prisoner to Her Majesty's clemency on the ground of the great provocation he received from his wife. THE anniversary festival of the Builders' Benevolent Institution was held on Thursday evening at the Free. mason's Tavern, Mr. Ex-Sheriff Burt (of the firm of John Mowlern and Co.) in the chair. A short time ago Mr. George Godwin, F.R.S., editor of the Builder, offered a donation of 100 guineas to the institution provided other friends would give ten guineas each. The result of of the president's appeal in reference to thin offer has been that GO donations of 10 guineas each hays been promised. The total amount of subsoriptions and donations announced at the festival was £1,436 7s. fid., including £lO5 given by Mr. Godwin and £lO5 given by the president. IN the Senate House at Cambridge on Friday morning the Rev. James Porter, D.D., Master of St. Peter's College. was elected and admitted to the office of Vice. Chancellor of the University for the academical year ensuing.