Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-02-11 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE—The receipts on account of Revenue from the let of April,lBBl, when there was a balance of £5,923,662, to January 28th, 1882, were £67,103,445; against £64,905,928 in the corresponding period of the preceding financial year, which began with a balance of £3,273,428. The net expenditure was £70,517,720, against £67,603,648 to the satin date in the previous year. The Treasury balances on January 28th amounted to £2,466,077, and at the same dare in 1881 to £3,956,249. GEORGE BAKER, a driver in the Royal Artillery, has committed suicide by hanging himself at Sheflield. This is the second case that has occurred at the barracks within the past month. A MEETING has been held in the Exchange, Nottingnatn, to provide for the forthcoming meeting in the town of the Social Science Congress. The Mayor presided. The appointment of a general committee, which includes nearly every influential name in the town and county, was agreed to. The hon. aecretaries chosen were Mr. J. S. G. Johnson (town clerk), Dr. Seaton, and Mr. Sidney Johnson. IT WAS RESOLVED at a meeting held in the Town Hall, Aberdeen, to institute an art gallery and museum in the city, mid to use for that purpose the hinds derived from the recent exhibition of the Prince of Wales' presents. It was also decided to solicit public subscriptions in aid of the scheme. EARL GRANVILLE'S SECRETARY, acknowledging the receipt of copies of resolutions passed at a Liberal meeting held at Accrington, says "Lord Granville is much gratified by the expressions of confidence in her Majesty's Government conveyed in the resolutions, for which he desires me to return his best thanks."  OWING TO the unsatisfactory state of the wages question, the Operative Cotton Spinners' Associations in Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, Church, Over Darwen, and radiham, have jointly resolved to urge upon employers the necessity of a change in the system of payment, and to respectfully ask them to adopt that by lengths of yarn spun instead of by weight. NORFOLK AND NORWICH STEEPLECHASES will take place in the lag week in March, by the permission of Mr. H. E. Wortley, on hind at Frettenham. 111 E DIRECTORS of the Antrim Iron Ore Cornpony, Limited, at their meeting in Belfast, declared a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum for the past half-year, carrying forward £521 195. 4d. to the credit of next account The company shipped 91,316 tons of are during 1881. . . . .  AT BRIDGWATER the inmates of the Canningtoo Industrial (Roman Catholic) School, shout 100 in Dumber, were marched to the railway statton to receive one of their number on his arrival from Taunton, where he had been acquitted at the assiae court a few days ago of a charge of arson. On alighting from the train he was received with three hearty cheers, and he then returned with the other boys to the institution.  TRE ODDFELLOWS AND FORESTERS have had a combined dignerat llighbridge. _  AN OLD MAN, e7O years of age named Lenton, living at 100 has just met with a frightful death. While standing near the tire in his house he accidentally felt upon it, and being too feeble to extricate himself, he was literally roasted, and dial from the effects of his injuries. M. J. NICOL FLEMING has been liberated from prison on a bail bond, but the sum lodged has not been made public. _  MR.