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The Telegram. — 1895-09-17 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE ACTION OF THE BRITISEI CONSUL.  A correspondent of the China Mail writes as follows concerning the action of the British Consul :—The first news of the massacre came to us on Friday night in a hastily-written letter of Mr. Phillips to the Rev. Mr. Banister, of the Church Missionary Society, who was at Kuliang, a summer resort about nine miles from here. He went immediately to see Archdeacon Wolfe, who was also at Kuliang, and early on Saturday morning they started down to Fu-Chau to see Mr. Mansfield, the British consul. They met Min coming to Kuliang, and told him of the contents of Mr. Phillips's letter, but he refused to go back with them. They migh.o go down and do what they could, bat he was going to kuliang to spend two or three days. He told them he could do nothing then, but would write to the Viceroy. After reacning the house at which he was to spend his holidays, he wrote to the Viceroy making an appointment for Monday, 11 a.m. All this while five English ladies were lying dead at Hwa-sang. I say live, for Mr. Phillips's letter gave that number. The indignation of the people at Kuliang, English and Americans alike, was very great on hearing of his conduct, and three English missionaries-went to see him about 11 o'clock, but they could not move him. About 5 o'clock a letter came from the Marshal at the American consulate saying that a reseuiug party was bein&organised, and asking for volunteers from ligiaug. Several volunteered, and two English missionaries went to see the British consul again, told him of the intended expedition, and gave him to understand that it would look strange if it went off with him away from his Consulate. He thought so, too, and decided to come down. The only object of the expedition was to Sod the wounded and care for them, lie was opposed to the plan, and said he would come down to oppose it. Thus it took two delegations to bring him back to his post, and all the while five English girls were lying dead at Hwa-sang. It was well for him that he Caine, for when the surveyors reached Fu-Chau we learned that ten were murdered, and not five. Contrast with this the conduct of the United States consul, Colonel Hixigon. Archdeacon Wolfe and the Rev. Mr. Banister, two English missionaries, finding that their own coirsul would do nothing for theui, were compelled to go to the American consul. As soon as he heard the terrible news he went to see the Viceroy, who, after some pressure, put a Government launch at the disposal of Colonel Hixson, to take a party up the river to Cui KEW, whence they could go inland to look for the wounded. Within an hour and 20 minutes after hearing the news he SVBA in the Viceroy's yamen, four miles from the consulate. Late in the afternoon the launch went up, taking Archdeacm Wolfe, Mr. Banister, and Marshal Ilixsou.
The Telegram. — 1895-02-19 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

MONDAY.  TUE GREAT UNIONIST FRAL`D.—THE PARNELLITES AND TILE TORIES ALLIED. To-day the great " Unionist '• party did what they are never tired of denouncing the Liberal party for doing—they (aimlAned with the Pernellites in an attempt to defeat the Government. What was the price paid we shall never know, but the Tories went into the same lobby with the men whom they have denounced from every platform as murderers. Mr. J. Redmond moved an amendment to the address calling for a dissolution of Parliament, so that Home Rule may be again submitted to the country.—Mr. A. Balfour, warmly supported Mr. Redmond, and so did Sir Edward Clarke.—Mr. J. Morley, in replying for the Government, said he was as earnest as Mr. J. Redmond about self-government for Ireland, but with reference to the amendment he declared that no more mischievous blow could have been dealt at the cause of Home Rule. If the House looked at the position of the honourable member they would see he had committed hisnself to a political paradox of very considerable dimensions. The present Administration had actually passed a Home Rule Bill through the House of Commons, and yet the honourable member contended that the Government which had taken this enormous stride in the direction desired by him ought to be ejected by the friends of Home Rule and in the name of Home Rule. Moreover, it was intended to eject them with the assistance of the party who regarded Home Rule as treason to the Constitution. After twitting Mr. J. Redmond on account of his suicidal and infatuated policy, Mr. J. Morley spoke of that gentleman's confederates, and asked whether the present amendment had, like that moved by Mr. Jeffreys, been doctored by the leader of the Opposition. With regard to the alleged slackness of energy on behalf of the Irish cause, he reterred to the enthusiasm aroused by Mr. Gladstone, and explained that that passionate awakening had been converted into a firm and steadfast conviction of national honour and national duty. This firm conviction of the impossibility of governing Ireland on the old lines and of the necessity of building up institutions of self-goveniment in that country was not one whit slackened or weakened. It was premature to suppose that there sae no chance of the Government passing their Land Bill, and the success of the amendment would deprive the Irish people of the benefit of a measure which they almost universally demanded. It was a curious thing that the member for Waterford should seek to recruit his rather thin and emaciated ranks by setting the whole of rural Ireland against him. Such a course might be called independent, hut it could not be described as patriotic. When the time for a general election arrived the Liberal party would go to the country with the question of the concession to Ireland of a full measure of local autonomy not falling behind the measure of 1883. On the division there voted For the amendment ... 236 Against .. 266 -Government inaj3rll3' ... 20
The Telegram. — 1896-10-27 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

INCITING TO MURDER. •  ! ro).  On Saturday, at the North London Police-court, Mary Green, 43, married, was charged on eentr,nd with inciting one Henry Nicholls, a coat maker, of Palace Read, Hackne.% to murder her husband, Thomas Green, a cabinet maker, of 52, Mare Street, Hackney. On the woman now being placed in the dock. Mr. Bros said that the medical officer at Holloway was of opinion that she was insane. If that were so it would be of no use to pursue the charge further. He should therefore send the woman to the Workhouse, but if the authorities rhere thought she was not insane sue would have to be re-charged. On bearing this the woman clang to the dockmils and besought her husband to come to her bfr. Green kindly went up to the woman, who was then vtruggling with Clover (the ssistant gaoler). The officer, however, shouted to the husband to stand back, and the man, bewildered by contending emotions, did so. Another policeman then went to the assistant-gaoler's assistance, and the woman was carried out of Court shrieking for her husband. For some minute.s ter her screams were heard at the back of die Gaut, with the one oft-repeated connected sentence, " Tom, take me out of this wretched place. You don't know what it is."  COINS IN A CRIPPLE'S CRUTCff. Before the Salisbury city magistrates on Saturday, Alfred Turner, a cripple, belonging to the city, was charged with obtaining relief by making a false statement. He pleaded not guilty.—Mr. W. H. Jackson, who appeared for the Hoard of Guardians, stated that on the previous ilay (Friday) prisoner applied to Mr. W. IL Newberry, relieving officer, who gave him an rimer for the workhouse, he stating that he was destitute. The man arrived at the house about ten o'clock in the evening, and the master (Mr. Lyle) having certain suspicions, searched him, but found nothing on him. It then occurred to him to examine the crutches which the man was UMiLlif, and under the arm piece of one of them, he found a thin layer of wood screwed on. On removing this, holes of the size of various mina were disclosed to view in the woodwork, anti Mr. Lyle took out a 'sovereign, a half-sovereign, anti some shillings, amounting altogethei to £2 4s 94. Evidence having been stiven in support of Mr. Jackson's statements, a fine of lbs with Bs bd COlltS was imposed. —Prisoner, who had been furnished by the guardians with a new crutch, asked that the old one might be returned to him, as, he said, the new one NU of no Use to him, and the magistrates ordered that this should be doue.—Prisoner said he did notate why he should pay the fine and the Mayor told him that the alternative was 14 days' imprisonment.— Prisoner Thank you, sir.—He was then removed in custody.  At the Old Bailey on Thursday, Alexander Morgues, clerk, pleaded guilty to demanding money by menaces from Lady Animates Harris and two gentlemen, and sentence WA', deferred until Friday. Mr. Iroth, alto defended, said that Morgues' est.:Dent that there were confederates was untrue. The letters were merely the prompt. digs of a weak mind, which had been affected by reading pernicious literature.
The Telegram. — 1896-09-08 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE NORTH ESSEX TRAGEDY. LATEST DETAILS.  Inquiries into the history of events at Pebinarsh, particularly relating to the career of the bankrupt farmer Sauinel Beaten Collie, who stands charged with the wilful murder of his mother'ii farm steward, John Robert Cockerill, throw additional light on the circumstances leading up to the glis,tly tragedy at Hill Farm. It transpires that from his youth up the accueea man bad been a desperate character. Hie father, who died three years ago, went in fear of hint, and the villagers always regarded him with awe. About eleven years ago he began to show signs of insanity, and at that time he deliberately maimed himself by tiring a gun at his feet. Soon after that occorrence he had au Hine., and on his recovery he hail to be removed toe lunatic asylum in which he remained 11 months. He was di-charged as " cured "about eight years ago. Ou regaining his liberty he took a farm at Pebmarsh, which he hold for two years, and giving it up he went to reside in a cottage on his mother's estate for 12 months. His next step was the taking of another farm in the parish, which he held up to the time of his arrest. He was I to have appeared at the Colchester Bankruptcy Court last week for examination, he having filed his I petition, but he did not present himself. HI. solicitor, however, stated that the official receiver had , satisfied himself that the bankrupt was solvent, he ! having had a legacy left him which was more that' sufficient to pay all his creditors in full. The house in which the accused lived alone was found to be in a well-kept condition, a woman being engaged by him to do the housework. There were, however, not wanting precis of the eccentricity of the prisomea character, for in the kitchen there hung from a beam a sheep's head, a rabbit, and a hen, all in a state of dried putrefaction. The prisoner's bed was made ready for his reception and had trot been slept in the night previous to the tragedy at the farm. In the living room an apple hung from the ceiling on a piece of string, and bullet marks on the opposite wall suggested that Collis had aimed at the swinging apple for revolver practice. Since hie capture the accused haa maintained a stolid indifference and shows very few, if any, symptoms of insanity. It has been suggested that the motive for the crime was jealousy of his victim, Collis thinking that he ought to have been made steward on the death of his father, but it does not appear that the men ever quarrelled, or that there was any bad feeling between them. The prisoner's family are all well connected. . . . . . . . ' "  A -doltretwilig incideoi has followed the awful tragedy at Pebmaree, the local constable's wife haying lost her reasou as the result of the terrible mental straw after the revoititur murder iu the vi!. 'age.  A tailor residing at Earl's Court, London, died through hurrying, immediately after breakfast, to mach a train by which he was to meet his wife. At Sheffield on Thursday, Mr. Alexander Wilson, managing director of Messrs. Charles Cammel ik Co., Limited, was elected master cutler.
The Telegram. — 1896-06-30 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

ILE FOR NOV ICES. -1, Hunt, 50 yards ; 2, Eyera (scratch); 3, Watts (80yds), time, 2 min.47-2-ssccv. Good race won by five yards. ONIC MILE (open)-1, Berge (30yds) ; 2, Grey (1389,1 h ; 3, Hayter (160yds.) Time, 2mins. 18 2-ssecs. Magnificent race ; won by inches. Hata-MILE (open.)-1, Meader (110yds ) ; 2, Rossiter (65yda.) ; 3, Burge (15yds.) This event brought out a warm field, and the race was won t.y inches. Time, brim. 52secs. Handicapping perfect.  Choleta has broken out among the French troops at Hand,. The van of she mail train of the Trish Great Northern Railway was destroyed by tire on Sunday night. - -  The seven year old daughter of an Ilfracombe coastguard fell from Wilderstnouth beach rocks on Saturday, and received injuries from which she died on the following day Three surveyors engaged in making roads in Madagascar have been murdered by Fahaval.. Father Berthieu, a missionary, has been taken prisoner by the Fahavaloe.  Considerable damage was carried by a fire which broke out on Monday afternoon in a large warehouse attached to the Great Western Railway Goods Station, Paddington. In consideration of the drought, the French Minister of Public Works has directed the railway companies to reduce for six months by 25 per cent. the rates for hay and straw. Kathleen Houghton, aged two years and ten months, was hanged in the cloak room of a Portsmouth Board School on Monday, by her pinafore eking catching in a hat peg.  It is announced that the Government at Madrid intend to send 100,000 more men to Cuba namely, 40,000 in August and September, 40,00 in October, aud the remainder before January. A man named Partridge, formerly one of the wealthiest apeculators on the Rand, was recently found in the public streets of Johanuesburg covered with sores and wounds, and dying of starvation. The Swansea Regatta Committee on Monday received a letter from the German Eniperor'a seeretarr the ataitwinegatth.eart the Matt hrewr o arrive Swansea .  The Dowager Duchene of Atbole, now in Ler 83rd year, has been helping a young friend to learn to ride a bicycle. '' I could bold her up," remarked the old lady, "but I didn'e feel equal to running alongside." The inquiry into the Moeoow disaster has been swended by the Tsar's orders. Certain personages in high positions are said to have been culpably negligent, and the cata.stropbe will be described as of Divine origin.  Sarah llorewill, against whom an action for hbl seas brought by the Rev. Dr. Lemon, of Poughill Vicarage, war Stratton, Cornwall, pleaded guilty at the Exeter 1188i7R., on Monday, withdrew every charge, and apologised. A hbourer was found dead at Roxteth, Harrow, on Monday. The body was doubled up, and the man appeared to have died in great pain, probably from poisoning. Nothing is known as to the identity of the deceased. During a trial at Blackburn County Court on Monday, the proprietor of a weighing-machine stated that his steerage takings in pennies for weighing people were between £2 and £3 a day, while be had made £lO a day.
The Telegram. — 1896-06-30 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

PORTSMOUTH MURDER CASE.  A HEAVY CALENDAR.  The Hants Assizes opened at Winchester on Ihursilay, the calendar comprising the names of 69 prisoners, including three charged with murder, one being Philip Matthews, coach. man, of Teignmouth, committed fur strangling hie daughter, Elsie, at Portsmouth. Mr. justice Day, in charging the Grand Jury, alluded specially to this case, which he described as a very unfortunate one, but one that would present no difficulty and leave no room for doubt in their minds. Whatever might be the result at the trial, the evidence pointed to murder by strangulation, and the facts would, be thought, justify them in finding a true bill. A day will probably be filed for the trial. The prosecution will be undertaken by Messrs. Temple, Hooke, and Gill for the Treaeury. Prisoner's solicitor has withdrawn from the case.  WHAT WOULD TIIE CODFISH SAY I  It the codfish in the seas realised how great • blessing they are to mankind, they would not mind no much being caught and dried and salted. At least, this is one way of looking at it. The oil alone that is made from their livers has probably saved more lives than anybody will ever realise. Most of iris wonderful benefits are "born to blush unseen." Fortunately. some of them are not, and may thereby accomplish mach good. Here la a case we are enabled to publish : "In May, 1890, I had a very severe attack of influenza, which left both lungs weak. Each winter since, I have had bad attacks of bronehitie or infiammarion, my lungs getting worse and worse, until I found myself in January, 1895, quite unfit for my occupation, and had to give up my situation. The doctor pronounced it consumption and ordered me to Clifton, where I was during February and March, without any benefit. About this time a friend sent sue a botttle of Scott's Emulsion, asking Inc to try it. I did so, and thought I felt slightly better. The phlegm became less and the night sweats less frequent. In April I went into Devonshire, my friends there thinking I had come to die, an I was so weak. Good nursing, and the regular use of Scott's Emulsion, soon gave me strength, and I rapidly gained weight—over nine liouncia in two months. I was ardered here for the winter, and I am glad to say that 90 far I have been entirely free from all colds, and ain feeling etrouger than I have for more than a year past. I hope with the regular use of Scott's Emulsion to be able to resume work in a month or two. For seven months I have taken no other medicine, although I 11111 tinder the care of a doctor here. I told him what I was taking, and be said: 'Continue taking it, as it agrees wish you. Otis a capital preparation, and to you is both medicine and food.' There are many cases like mine. They cannot take the raw cod-liver oil, but if they tried Scott's Emulsion, would find they could easily digest it, and if they began taking din time, would gain strength, instead of gradually sinking away.— Yours very sincerely, (signed)
The Telegram. — 1896-06-16 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

POTTING" THE NIGGERS.  The Daily Chronicle of Friday last pub- 1 lishes extracts from the letters of a young , Englishman at Bulawayo, the reading of which makes one's flesh creep-with horror. This young man, speaking of the Matabele, says, " It is grand fun potting Diggers off and seeing them fall like ninepins." Then he describes the sport (!) of shooting spies in the following thrilling passage :—" There have been two or three caught in the town lately and shot as spies. There is great excitement to see them shot. Crowds go out to see it. They are stood (Sic) ten yards off the firing party, who all (about eight or nine men) blaze at them at once. It. is quite a nice sight out here now. One gets quite callous and hardened, and does not object to seeing it. At home, now, I could not see a man hung for the world. Out here it is an amusement, especially when one pots them over as fastas he can outside in battle." He reaches the elimax, however, in describing how native spies are hanged : " Yesterday three natives were hung for being spies. They were marched out of town about half-a-mile. Ropes were tied to branches of a tree, they were made to climb up ; the rope put round their necks, and made to jump off the tree and drop. One wunld not for some time. He would talk to Mr. Colenbrander, who asked him at last, " Can you see Bulawayo 7" The nigger said, "Yes." So Mr. Colenbrander said, I " Have a goad look at it, as you will never I see it again." So he did ; then said, "Good- 1 bye Mr. Colenbrander," and jumped off. This is how Mr. Cecil Rhodes, the real " hero " of the Jameson Raid, is teaching the aboriginal natives of South Africa his "everlasting lesson !" But if the process described by this refined young man is carried on for a few months, we do not see how the lesson can be "everlasting," because' the wretched Matabele will by that time be conipletely exterminated. It is no doubt true that the Matabele have murdered a Dumber of our people, including some women and children. But is it really necessary for a civilised nation, supposed also to be Christian, to retaliate with such revolting barbarities as these? Do our Government at home sanction them, and do they still regard Mr. Rhodes as a Heavenborn subjugator of savage tribes and the great African empire.builder 1 We shall be surprised if the British people do not soon make air irresistible demand that this discredited statesman and fallen hero shall be "called back " to "face the music " and to I be taught if not an everlasting at least an enduring lesson. As to the young man from whose letters we quote, he must be a specimen of the ripest fruits of Jingoism few people would mire to have upon their list of friends. Let us devoutly hope that none of the members of our numerous lads' brigades will be 80 trained as ever to become capable of penning such sentiments.
The Telegram. — 1896-08-18 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

LAST LOOK ROUND.  The Solar eclipse was very successfully observed at St. Petersburg. An American cyclist coasted down a hill into a ravine 40 feet deep. He miraculously escaped with cuts and bruises. .  Mr. Switheu ',teeming, of Middleton, the oldest solicitor in the three kingdoms, attained on Friday his hundredth year. Montenegro is to have a standing army. The first regiment was "consecrated" on Saturday and addressed by the Prince. - -  It is officially announced that the funeral of the late Sir J. Millais will be held on Thursday next It 12 o'clock at St. Paul's.  A serious collision occurred at Hartlepool Road Station on Saturday in eunsequenee of the brake of the Sunderland express failing to act.  According to the mad &deices from Cape Town (July 29), pioneers from Rhodesia assert that nearly 300,000 head of cattle have died of rinderpest.  The death id announced, after,, painfully short illness' of Cecilia Marjorie Ridley, eldest daughter of Sir Matthew White Ridley, in her 19th year. Plymouth Borough Council bad applied to the Local Government Board for sanction to borrow £46,000 for electric lightning works in the borough. Li Chung Tang visited Mr. Gladstone at Rawerden on Saturday on his way tio Berrow-imFurness. The twh etetesliaell had a long conversation, in which they discussed a variety of public question.. These included trade in China, national expemlitare, pitsteotiun and fete trade, and the English Navy. . . . _  The Home Secretary has declined to interefere with the sentence of death passed on Frank Tay• be for the murder of May Lewis, aged 10, at Birmingham. The man Williams, under sentence of death for the murder of a seaman named Gibbons, has been respited with a view to the sentence being commuted to penal servitute for life.  Lord Saliabury was formally installed at Dover as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, on Saturday, and, replying to the toast of hie health at a public banquet, he alluded to the Eastern question, and declared Turkey to be a gangrene and a centre of rotteness. During the day the Prime Minister unveiled a portrmt of the Marquis of Dufferin, the late Lord Warden, by Prince Troubetakey. The young man and woman who were found each shot through the heart on Friday at a house in James Street, Brighton, whele they had been lodging, have been identified. The youth was Alexander Duller, 19, son of the landlord of The Trees public. house, Bath Row, 13tiniingham, and his companion was Laura Kitchener, aged about 28, who wan formerly in his father's euiploy as a domestic.  - Mr. Alfred Milnes, MA., of the National Anti. Vaccination League' speaking at Gloucester on Saturday, claimed the report of the Vaccination Commission as a vict .ry all along the line for anti. vaccinators, despite the fact that that investigating body had been packed with pro-vaccinators and those who had been inflicting fines. In the minority report one of the greatest authorities on vaccination in the world would, he believed, eviscerate the majority report.