The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-05-08 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE EXAMINER.  :I.I'ISRDAY, KAY 8, 1873.  The Warwickshire miners have n. -..lred to resist the masters' proposal for a red,ction of 10 per cent, in wages. Josiah Buttifant, late secretary to the Norwich Building Society. ban been sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude.  At the Marylebone Police Court, on Tuesday, George Cole, carpenter, was remanded on a charge of setting fire to his wife while intoxicated.  On Tuesday, 300 agrieultmal labourers left Warwickshire and Oxfordshire for New Zealand. They sailed from the Thames on Wednesday.  The " World says there is talk yet of another secession from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. The new convert is said to be one of the Buceleuch family. The Revenue returns from April 1 to May 1, 1875, showthe receipts to have been 0,212,930; the expenditure, £9,45,373; and the balances, £4,010,357. At the corresponding period last year they were :—Receipts, £6,398,5.25 : expenditure, £8,805,871; and balances, £4,777,627.  „ At East Ham, Essex, a labourer, named Michael Murphy, believed to be suffering from delirium tremens, made a murderous assault upon a young man named Henry Jaques. The weapon employed was a hatchet. The injured man is not expected to live. Several of the Prince of Wales's labourers who asked for an advance of is., to make their wages los, weekly, have been discharged. About 100 men have left the Duke of Portland's private farm rather than work the seven hours a week extra, as demanded. They have since applied for emigration allowance from the League. •- • '  , Mr. J. A. Illingworth presided over the annual meeting of the Council of the Liberation Society, which was held in Loudon, on Wednesday. The report reviewed in detail the work of the society during the past year. and stated that the last election, instead of weakening the society's influence in Parliament, had rather strengthened it.  , A bankrupt tradesman at Barrow-in-Furness, named Williamson, recently in business as a boot and shoemaker, has been committed for trial for burglaaiously breaking into the shop which he occupied before his bankruptcy, and taking away 495 pairs of boots and shoes, which were then in the possession of the trustee of the estate.  A singular ease of death frons vapour arising from an explosion of dynamite has occurred at Ulverston. Two labourers were sinking a shaft in connection with a new reservoir for the Barrow Corporation, and when at a depth of 120 feet they fired three shots. They remained on the surface twenty minutes and then resumed work. Both men complained of the vapour, and were taken ill. One, despite all medical aid, died in twelve hours, but the other recovered.  An extraordinary instance of the recklessness of colliers is reported front South Wales. At the Aberdare Police Court, on Tuesday,  Thomas Jones, -a, collier, of Cwm' amain Pit wits'  charged with unlocking his lamp. contrary to special rule. A " blower " was struck in the colliery; the men were immediately ordered to withdraw, and for a few minutes the whole were in the most imminent peril. Jones, however, who was working within twenty yards of the "blower," coolly withdrew the top from his lamp in order to light his pipe.