Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-03-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NOTES OF THE WEEK.  A SIESTING of master builders was held at Newcastle on Thursday, when it was unanimously resolved to resist the men's overtures to the utmost.  A REWARD of £lOO has been offered for the apprehension of Thomas Barr, who murdered his mother-in-law and nearly killed his wife in Glasgow last week.  FRIDAY was the thirteenth anniversary of the Prince and Princess of Wales's marriage. The Princess and family went to visit the gieen at Windsor Castle, when a state dinner was given in honour of the occasion.  TUE funeral of Lady Augusta Stanley took place on Thursday in Westminster Abbey. Her Majesty, with Princesses Louise and Beatrice, were seated in the gallery overlooking the west end of the nave. Dean Stanley pronounced the blessing at the close of the service.  ISAAC Ermui., aged 50, was found in his house at Birmingham in a pool of blood. The body was covered with wounds. The medical teAimmly stated that the wounds could not have been self-inflicted, awl a verdict of murder was returned. No clue to the perpetrators of the deed has been found.  THE threatened dispute in the Newcastle engineering trade is likely to be settled. The reductions at Messrs Hawthorn's works are only to affect unskilled labourers, who, in some instances, are making higher wages than mechanics. A number of hands, however, wilt have to be discharged.  THE snowstorm of the last few days was the most severe experienced in the North of Scotland for 20 years. Railway communication has been interrupted. Heavy floods have been experienced in Westmoreland. A man was drawned in the Lure near Kirby Lonsdale while catching floating timber.  ON Friday, a heavy sentence for sending a thr2atening letter was passed at the Ilinchester ASSIZ 28 on Charles Taylor, 25 years of age. He had written to a Mr Pearce, surgeon, London, demanding £2 as a condition for not divulging a certain crime. Mr Pearce denied all knowledge of the man or the crime, and he was sentenced to penal servitude for life.  NEweasmit was the scene of another destructive fire on Friday, when the Tyne Steam Sawing and Liming Mills, belonging to Mr John Bowman, were destroyed. With the exception of the engines and the office books, very little has been saved. Mr Bowman suffered severe loss a short time ago by tie burning of his timber yard in Scotswood-road.  ON Thursday, Sir Alexander Cockburn was presented with the freedom cf the City of London. In acknowledging the honour, he referred to the Judicature Acts, which, he said, had removed the arrears which blocked up the avenues of justice. His advice was " Codify, codify." Referring to the Alabama arbitration, he said though be had not been able to save Englishmen their cash, he had saved their credit.  ON Friday, sixteen coopers were charged before the Gateshead magistrates for breach of contract under the Masters' and :Servants Act. Defendants had been engaged ix the north of Scotland to work for the Newcastle Chemical Company, Limited, in room of the coopers out on strike. They had failed to fulfil that agreement, aod hence the charges against them. The case against McWilliams, who had not started work, was proved, and he was ordered to pay the damages, 27s and costs. The other cases were adjourned.  AN important salvage case has been decided in the Admiralty Court in favour of a Hartlepool vessel. The Risca, as, of Liverpool, had her engines disabled oa a voyak,e from Liverpool to Gibraltar. She signalled for assistance and fired two guns, when the crew of the Hartlepool steamer Breeze boarded her, and took her safely into Falmouth. The Risca and cargo were valued at £54,000, and the owners offered £5OO as salvage, which the master of the Broeze refused. Sir Robert Phillimore, after hearing the evidence, awarded £750 with costs.  Mn