The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-12-09 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LORD CRANBOURNR, M.P., eldest son of the Marquis of Salisbury, was initiated an hon. member of the Blackburn branch of the Independent Order of Oildfellows last week.  A MEETING of college masters and inhabitants at Eton have resolved to commemorate the Queen's jubilee year by the erection at Eton of a new public hall to be named after the Queen. A PACIFIC cable company has been formed for the laying of a cable from Brisbane, rid New Zealand and the Fiji and Sandwich Islands, to Vancouver, where it will be connected with the Canadian Pacific Railway system. A PARTY of masked men, at Big Springs, Texas, have just hanged fifty Chinamen separately, by their pig-tails, until they vivrendered their money. ' A PUBLIC meeting at Bournemouth has decided to commemorate the Queen's jubilee by the erection of a general public hospital, to be called the Victoria Hospital. It is stated that Mr. Chamberlain and his party, who are now at Corfu, will probably return to England about the 15th or 20th inst. IT is reported that the palace of the Nizam at Golconda has been broken into, and jewellery valued at about six lacs of rupees been stolen. THE Hampstead Constitutional Club will be opened on the 16th inst. by Sir Henry Holland, Bart, M.P. ARRANGEMENTS are being made for the holding of a national demonstratioa at Edinburgh on January 12th in favour of Home Rule for Scotland. BRITISH Guiana is making large shipments of gold to England, and the prospects are that the shipments will rival in value .theareat_exports of sugar, molasses, and rum. A FURTHER stay of execution till February has been granted in the case of Hugh Brooks, alias Maxwell, who was sentenced to death at St. Louis, for the murder of Mr. Preller.  THE Liverpool City Council have refused to allow the use of the land on which the Liverpool Exhibition now stands, and the same building for the Jubilee Exhibition next year. By this refusal the guarantors will have to make up a deficit of £15,000, which they hoped to clear by next year's Exhibition. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has written to Mr. John Tweedale, jun., of Dewsbury, expressing great regret that it is not possible for him to accept an invitation to be present at a Conservative gathering at Dewsbury, in January. THE late King Alphonso of Spain is not yet officially buried, although he has just been dead a year. According to rigid Spanish etiquette, Royal personages must become "mummified" before finally laid to rest, and so their coffins are placed in a special chamber in the rock, where water falls constantly upon the corpse until it is completely petrified. So the body of the late King is still undergoing the process. WHILE excavating the ground on which the Portsmouth Town Hall is being btlilt, at a cost of £lOO,OOO, the workmen discovered, about three feet below the surface, nine skeletons lying side by side. There are no records to show whether the spot was a burial-ground or a place of confinement for French prisoners. For over seventy years the residence of the officer commanding the Royal Artillery of the southern district has occupied the site.  INTENSE excitement prevails at the newly-discovered goldfields at Waukariuga, South Australia. The " finds " have been very rich. The first man who put down a " hole " found a nugget a good ounce in weight at a depth of three feet. Naturally there is now a great rush to the diggings. MR.