The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-11-03 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ADAW..I to further questions, the witness said he. had been in prison since September 22nd, and heard nothing of the murder until told of it by Waller. Afterwards lie saw an account of the affair in a newsnaper, and wrote to Inspector O'Dea asking for an Interview, and stating that he (witness) could clear up the Borough MyStery.—ln cross-examination witness said the statement lie math e to Inspector O'Dea was not made in answer to qoestions put tt him, but was taken down word for word from his lips. No promise of reward or remission of hi, sentence had been made to him. The prisoners were again remanded.  been  (From the World.)  Countess Peodore Gleichen, who has succeeded kr the studio In St. James's Palace of her father, Prince Victor Hoheolohe,whose talents as a sculptor she has inherited, is now engaged on a life-slu statue of the Queen which is to be placed in the Victoria Jubilee Hospital at Montreal, and for which her Majesty has given several sittings. This statue is being executed for Lord Mount Stephen and Sir Donald Smith. Lod Rosebery will have the Legation at Lisbon to give away very soon, u Sir George Petre isabout to retue from the diplomatic service. Groat reinvit is felt fa Als2ce at the demolition of an old house in Wisumburg which has of late - used ea a caht ,••  yew tor it was from the window*. of this house that Nola:whorl. who was a nephewof the mayor, expounded the doctrinen of the Reformation to the inhabitants. The house has. been pulled down to mak room for a new market.  Major Chard, whose heroism at Rorke's Drift won for him 13 years ago the Victoria Crow, goes out to Singapore to take up the appointment 01 Commandii.g Royal Engineer on the &ail ot Charles Warren.  The regiments joining the Indian establishment this winter from home and the colonies are to be stationed as follows: The I.Vh Hussars (from Natal), at Sealkote; the Ist Battalion Devonshire Regiment (from Alder•hot), at Secunderabad; the ?nd Battalion Essex Regiment (from Cyprus and Malta), at Ittnikbet; and the let Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment (from Aldershot), at Bangalore. The Chateau de Malmaiaon, celebrated af the residence of the Empress Josephine after he: divorce, is about to be sold, and there is every probability that it will, like Saint-Cloud, be demolished. The late Emperor had restored it to something like its pristine splendour, but since Ida downfall little care had been taken of it,and nearly the whole of the large park which surrounded it has already been sold for 'wilding villas. There IA, of course, a rossibili'y of tie rhitteau and gardens being pureha,ort by some mi"i'naire who will take a pride in preserving them, but the odds a• that Malmaison will soon pass into the limbo of "things forgotten that were."  Mr. Harry Vane Milbank, the eldest son of Sir Frederick Milbank, of Thorp Perrow, who died last week at Davos, was at one tone very well known in both London and Paris scciety. Under the will of the first Duke of aviv.le a his vast family estates in Durham, Yorkshire, Somersetshire, and Shropshire would have de.rentied to Mr. Milbank, his great-grandson. The first Duke died in 1842, and left £llO,OOO a year in land, and a fortune of L'900,000. He settled his estates on his three sons in succession, and tie-jr issue, and, failing, their line, upon his eldest daughter, Lady Augusta Milbank, and her issue male. The result was that everything would have ultimately been in the power of Mr. H. V. Milbank; but about 29 years ago the late Duke of Cleveland arranged to break the entail, at a cost to himself of more than a abilliot, 1110 I.IIC, 01 OW neces,ary consents having been, I belie,e, mid in a single cheque.  . . . - - - •. . . . , • 7.."*.3911=1nir