Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-07-07 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

FURTHER FIGHTING IN THE NYASSA REGION. A telegram just received, and dated from Lake Nyasm on M ty 9th, reports further severe encounters between the agents of the /Uric in Lkes Company and the Arabs, who, it is Asited, have intrenched themselves on the Stevenson Road in bullet-proof stockades. Karon" the station first attack ,I, is the terminus of the road at the north end of Lake Nyas,a, and from this point the road runs north-west to Pambete, at the south end of. Lake Tang.nyikA, a distance of about 160 miles. It was construct,' at greet cost by the generosity of Mr. John Stevenson, the founder of the African litkes Comp my. There is nothing like it in all E ist Africa. It is a great commercial highway connecting the waterways, and together with them opening up a road for a thousand milm into the he irt of Eastern Africa. We published a few days ago part of a letter from the Rev. Mr Johnson, of the Universities Mission, in which he dmeribed the fruitless attempts made 'op the Acting Consul (Mr. Buchanan) ta procure the opening up of the road by negotiation. In this he was entirely sumesi.ful, and it was on his return from this expedition that hewn, attacked at one of the villages at the other end of the Lake. After this the Africm Lakes Company's agent, Mr. Frederick Moir, Of to have re-occupied Karongo and proceeded thence inland to open up the road. In this, we regret to learn from the telegram now to hand, lie haa not :‘.O far been successful, and he is reported to have been severely wounded in the attempt. His brother, Mr. John Moir, hail started with reinforcement,. The action of the Arabs can only be t ken AY evidence of a determination to take possession of the mad for their own purposes. It would indeed form All extremely convenient slave route. To this attsok the Company is fully entitled to offer all possible resist. anise, and it is to be hoped that the resources at itcommand may not prove inadequate to the te-k. Failure on its part would probably be the signal for atticks.—Manckester rdian.  THE RESULT IF A WEEK'S Hartley, a warehouseman, living in Kershaw street, Laisterdyke, near Biadford, was placed in the dock on a aelf-made charge of wife murder Police Constable Winn mill that on Monday the prisoner gave himself up and sail that he had that morning murdered his wife and was so miserable that he could not rest. At the Detective Office he was in terropted by Detective Inapeetor Jackson, and he there stated that he stria his wife she fell to the floor, awl when he found that elle was dead he came away to Manchester, where he got drunk. Jackson telegraphed to Bradford, and received a reply stating that the prisoner's wife was alive and well. In the pomesaion of the prisoner a book was found which had written on it, "If I am found dead write to Mns Hartley, Keriffia,street,Laister• dyke, near Sratieord. She will ply al expenses. It bad niece been aacertained that lie had been drinking for a week, and he was remanded until Friday no that a doctor mey examine him. ST. GEORGES VICARAGE, Hyde. will rhortly be vacant by the cession of the Rev. W. H. Lowder, who at the mine time vacates. the office of proctor in Convocation for thi arehdeaeonry of Maceleffield. Mr. Lowder, who is the only brother of the late Charles F. Lowder, of St. George's-in the East, has accepted All SARHA' Rectory, Telsfo: d, Somer,etshire. The Hyde living, valued at £348 per annum, with residence, is in the gift of the Rector of Stoekport. _