The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1889-07-17 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

PCISLISHZD EVZRY W3DNZSDAY AND SLIIIRDAY.  WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1889.  WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING.  PEOPLE ARE SAYING that the Standing Joint Committee of the County Council has decided to grant Wirral one more police inspector and ten additional police officers. It is understood that the whole of the men will be allocated to the district of _Wallasey, so it will no _ .  longer be possible for Mr. G. H. 13a11 to complain of the inefficient manner in which that district is watched. No doubt, he will feel very much gratified that the great reform upon which his heart was set has been accomplished without his assistance and in spite of the fad that the burgesses of Liscard declined to return him as their representative to the County Council. That in the whole of Cheshire there is not an ambulance waggon, nor a proper vehicle for the conveyance of the bodies of dead persons, in connection with any county police station. Thus corpses have to be carried about in wheelbarrows, while people who have received the most dreadful injuries are fain to be content with carts, cabs, planks, and gates. However, it is hoped that a change will be effected shortly, for the scandalous state of things has been brought under the notice of the Standing Joint Committee of the Coanty Council, which seems to have taken very kindly to the idea of doing something to set what is wrong right. That a woman aged 70 named Porter, residing at the New Park Inn, Trinity-street, committed suicide in a most determined manner on Sunday. She tied a strip of the sheet to the bed head, inserted her head in a noose which she deftly made, and then swung herself off with her legs under the bed, SO that the fall weight of her body came on the noose. When discovered she was quite dead, but her legs were touching the ground. The Coroner commented on the ability which she displayed in bringing about her owo destruction. The jury returned a verdict that the unfortunate woman had committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity, which was the only possible one under the circumstances.  That another case of amateur doctoring and its results was under the notice of the Borough Coroner, on Monday, when an inquest was held touching the death of a child four and a half years old. While playing on some waste land the deceased burnt his feet in a :bonfire. His mother doctored him, and he seemed to go on well for a time. Then, however, his legs began to swell, and he was dosed with castor oil. After that he had two fits in rapid succession, and died. Dr. Chnrton sarcastically remarked that the mother, no doubt, thought herself wonderfully clever, but it was a pity she did not take the little fellow to the hospital, where he would have been properly treated. However, it was evident that she acted with the best intentions, and only erred through ignorance. But let other mothers be warned by the calamity which has overtaken her and the rebuke which she has brought down upon herself.  That Dr. Chnrton held no fewer than four inquests in Birkenhead on Monday. But he did not appear in the least depressed. On the contrary, he seemed a marvel of good spirits and juvenility, and as he walked from place to place in pursuit of his official disdaining to use a cab, he displayed a firmness of tread and an elasticity oi step that would have been remarkable in a much younger man. Those who saw him wondered why he should have deemed it necessary to appoint a deputy. That, alas! alas! I the Shah has come and gone, without paying a visit to despised Birkenhead. It was arranged that he should cross under the river by the Mersey Tunnel,. and hold a short reception on the platform of the station at Green Lane. Invitations to meet him were sent to a number of Birkenhead's leading notabilities, including the representatives of the Birkenhead News, who looked out their best bibs and tuckers ail prepared themselves to be raised to the seventh heaven of delight while basking in the smiles of His Imperial Majesty. But at the eleventh hoar it was decided that the Eastern potentate should not avail himself of the hospitality of the Mersey Railway Company. So those who went to Green Lane Station, armed with the precious cards of invitation, met with nothing but disappointment, and, probably, comforted themselves by muttering something about royal caprice and what not. However, let them not despair, for they will be able to go and look at the Shah—in wax—at a Liverpool exhibition.  duties,  That the announcement of the death of Sir Tames A. Pluton came like a bolt out of the blue to the inhabitants of Birkenhead, as well as to the people of LiverpooL On Saturday evening the knight dined with the Shah at the Liverpool Town Hall, and struck everybody by his high flow of spirits. On Monday morning, he arose from rest fully determined to have another taste of pleasure in the company of the Persian monarch. But he sought his desk, and shortly afterwards WAS found cold and still—in other words, his spirit had returned to the God who gave it. Thus he veritably died in harness, which, perhaps, is the happiest way that a man who has all his life been a hard worker can die. The deceased was not often seen on this side of the Mersey, but he was regarded as the great authority on Thor's stone, the crowning glory of Thurstaston Hill. That our local volunteers are well represented in the shooting at Wimbledon. Two