Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-12-04 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

NOTES OF THE WEEK.  NOVEMBER has been "everything by turns and nothing long' an extraordinarily eccentric month. It has been alternately blustering and quiet, frosty and singularly mild. This mildness may feel pleasant enough, but it hardly seems seasonable, and sagacious physicians declare that it is far from being healthful. Sudden changes from cold keen enough to create tee to a mildness of temperature rendering topcoats superfluous, must be trying enough, even to strong constitutions.  A GLOWING account of Canada hae been given by !dr. M'Lean, the delegate to Manitoba, of the Kintyre Agricultural Society. The orchards he saw, especially in the Hamilton district, were extraordinary, and he imagined how beautiful the country would look in spring when the apples and peaches are in blossom. The Canadian winter, the rigours of which have already begun, lasts long, but when spring comes the whole aspect of the country seems to undergo a magical transformation in a few days. There is a wonderful vitality in the vegetation, which appears to take delight in showing how vigorously it can grow.  AN appeal ease by an Essex landlord has gone against the appellant. A. crcft of land on a farm he owns had been used from time immemorial by the inhabitants of a neighbouring village as a play ground, but the landlord sought to prohibit them from doing so any more, fie fenced it round, and when the inhabitants, who disputed his right to the ground, broke down the fence, he raised an action against them which he lost. Not being at all satisfied with thia result, he appealed from Mr. Justice Fry's deension to the Master of the Itolla and Lords Justices Jarnesand Lusk. Bat he was again defeated ; the former decision wan confirmed; and he was rebuked besides for continuing the litigation when the title of the inhabitants to the croft as a playground was so clear.  WILLIAM HERBERT, who shot a woman dead in Finsbury - park, and George Pavey, who violated and murdered a little girl named Ada Shepherd, lace both been condemned to death by Mr. Justice Hawkins at the Central Criminal Court. Herbert was caught red-handed, and his condemnati in was therefore certain from the first. The attempt on the part of l'avey's counsel to make it appear that the murder had been committed by 801110 tramp, who had managed to send the plumber out of the way for a abort time, Was too transparent a device to have any weight with thejury. The treachery of Pinny, in whose care the girl was left in the absence of her parents, helped to make the murder one of the most revolting on racord.  Tan Cape Government have begun now to realise the seriousness of the business they have taken on hand by stirring up the Basuto war. There is • great change in the tone of the langnage of the lig ht-bearted Mr. Sprigg, the Premier, who now says that "the resources of the colony are apparently equal to the work of suppressing the rebellion." He is not sure about it; he uses the word " apparently ;" he leaves a loophole of eicape for himself when he requires to appeal to the home Government for help. In a recent despatoli front Cape Town ibis stated that the total number of European and native forces in the field and wing raised is over 12,000. hut the natives can be very little depended on when the rebellious spirit is spreading far and fast.  '