The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-02-13 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

FURWERS. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1883  THE prize ploughing competition, which was yesterday inaugurated in B trrow, has drawn forth such a large amount of effort and skill amongst the stalwart competitors as has astounded the Committee of Management and has made the continuance of the competition in future years a certainty if not a necessity. Is is gratifying to find that in the class of competitors composed of boys under 18 of age the display of good work and skill was such as to draw forth very high commendation from the judges. The chairman, the secretary, and the committee who, we hear, have been untiring to make the affair a success, have every reason to be gratified with the result of their arduous labours.  THERE seems to be no doubt now that the Government have under lock and key the actual murderers—or ail but one, at all events—of the late lamented Lord Frederick Cavendish. We can rely upon it now that we have got in the confessions of the carman the real truth as to the mode of procedure in which that murder and others both attempted and completed had been arranged and carried out. We all had a vivid picture of the two martyrs to their country being stabbed to death and the men jumping upon the car and being driven off through the Park, and out upon the Chapelizod-road. We have got the driver and the men who were on it all but one, and what makes it all the more satisfactory is that we shall not be dependent upon a mere informer alone for the evidence upon which they will be brought to the gallows. We refer to our columns of to-day for a statement of the state of society in which such miscreants could deliberately plan and fulfil deed after deed with such cool pertinacity and determination. Surely we have a right to exult in the fact that such deeds are likely to be expiated at the gallows and that the world will be rid of a nest of as foul villains as ever infested a country.  DALTON had a period of excitement on Thursday last when Mr Arnold Taylor (a Poor Law Commissioner) held an inquiry into the question of site for the proposed Market Hall for the Dalton district. That was the only practical enquiry that was instituted; for, although, nominally, the enquiry included the financial position of the Local Board and its fitness to be entrusted with the expenditure of the £5,600 which it proposes to borrow, all that was a foregone conclusion, fqr no question could be raised as to the solvency of the Board nor of its having prepared A fair scheme of buildings for  the desired purpose. There are two things prominent in the evidence brought forth at this enquiry— first, that the Local Board were in a state of thorough preparedness and had accumlated a weight of evidence that was almost overwhelming while the opposition had contented themselves with instructing their representative and had made no preparation for giving rebutting evidence. It remains to be seen what the result will prove to be. That very morning prior to the enquiry taking place another important question had been advanced a stage further on its road to full development. This was the increase of Guardians which had been demanded and petitioned for at the hands of the Local Government Board, who had replied by granting two additional Guardians for Dalton and one for Ulverston. The Committee appointed by the ratepayers assembled on Thursday morning, and took this concession into consideration, and it need hardly be said that they were unanimously of opinion that the increase was not considered at all equal to the claims which the amount contributed by Dalton to the rates of the Union might lead them to expect, and therefore could not be deemed satisfactory in its character. They took another vigorous step which is sure to be approved and commended by the ratepayers; they decided to send a deputation to London to wait upon Mr. Hibbert, the President of the Poor-Law Department, in order to lay before him the claims of Dalton to a still further increase in the Dalton Guardians. There is little doubt that they have a case that will commend itself to the judgment of the head of the Poor-Law Department and it may reasonably be anticipated that this deputation— consisting of Messrs. James Robinson ( Chairman of the Local Board), G. B. Ashburner, and H. Mass-cks—have made out their case, and that their petition will be granted and Dalton be fairly represented amongst the Guardians of the Ulverston Union.