The Haslingden Gazette. — 1905-03-25 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

OOO. This will make the third mill in course of ereetion or to be erected at Royton.  Sir S. Hall, KG.. Judge of the Chancery Court of Lancashim. is very unwell, and In. medical a.-visers have ordered a csinipkwe re,t !cern his judicial dui ie3 for some time. He is at ho houm at Southport.  At n Ashton-under-Lyne inque-t, the Coroner asked a witness if the deceased (who had been found drowned) teas in good spirits when she last saw her. "No," said this witness. "she was quite sober."  Within a five miles' radiu% of Rochdale nine c•etton milk are in eounot of erection, the total capital of which is nearly £700,000, and whencom• pleted work will be found for over 2,000 workpeople.  If the eau. of Ireland is identified with duality of government, then all I can say is God help Ireland, because there will be no rettionse from the predominant partner to any such pruposition.—Lord Rosebery.  At Knuadea United Ilethodist Free Chureh them are at present four teachers and office-bearers whose yeatA of i-erviee amount to 172, on avenge of 43 years. Three out of the four were at the opening. 49 yew. ago.  At Nelson. a tramp, hailing from Yorkshire. whose name was John Saul, was charged with begging in Leeds-road. Pri,orcsr, who was committed at Church for seven days on tho 7th nit., was sent to gaol fey fourteen days.  At a Blue Ribbon Union meeting in Burnley thia week it WA stated that the people of that town were spending in drink £415,833 6s. 8d annually. an.l that meant that every day they were spending £1,139 Sr. Sri., or £7,977 per week.  M. Thom ss Duckworth, of 63, Quees's.road, Blackburn, who died on the lath February, left gross eststo £3,232, with set personalty £3,099. Probst. of his will has been granted to his grandson, Mr. Joint Duckworth, hairdresser, Blackburn.  The Irish Parliamentary party had tha control of the destinies of English political parties in their hands. It would be for them to eay who should rule the Empire. and even who should be the Prime Minister of England.—Sir T. Grattan Esmond.  At the Clitheros Borough Police Court, Thomas O'Neil was brought up on a warrant charged with disobedience to a maintenanoe order of ss. a week, made in 1903 in favour of his wife. The arrears anicunted to £4 103. Prisoner was sent to gaol for 0110 month.  The engineer% of tho London and Nerth.Western Railway Company have placed in the Crewo and Wolverton works ordors for the construction of a number of motor cars to be worked by steam. Thew, are intended for use in the London and Mancheater districts  The Burnley Watch committee have accepted tho resignation of Mr. H. C. Rawle. the Chief Constable, and granted bin requcet that he should terminate his duties at once, and receive three month, salary in lieu of notice. A new Chief Constable is to be advertised for.  Mr. Willinm Baldwin Wardle who died at ha residence at Chatburn this work, at the ago of 78. had been for yver fifty years managing clerk for Messrs. Robinson and Sane, solicitors, at Blackburn, and in that capacity was a well-known figure in the Police, Quarter Sessions. and Assize Courts of Lancashire.  Two labourer, proceeding to their work di, covered at daybreak hanging from a tree on the Charley and Preston main road at Wheeiton tho body of Samuel Grear Lamont, a Charley draper. At the inquest, on Tuesday, the jury returned a verdict of "Suicide." It was stated that Lamont had given way to drink.  At a public meeting of coloured goods weavers and winders at Caine reports were presented of the employees' recent attitude in regard to the ft rmation of the list of prices for hank winding and for an advance in the prices for rtripe work. Iss addition a report was given of the weavers efforts to obtain extra remuneration for various fancy sorts.  The °oleo of the Co-operative Wholesale Society for the half-year ending Deeember have amounted to £10,363,054 (an Moreno of £327.032 on the corresponding period of the previous year), the profit wa: £192,602, and the directors recommended the payment to members of the usual dividend of 4d. in the pound. The report woo adopted at a meeting in Manchester.  At Bury an inquest was held on Margaret Edgoor, aged 51 years, of Peers-street, Elton, who died from the effects of belladonna and econito poisoning. taken whilst in a mudcl,ed condition from drink. Fifty paartatiokets were found ha tho house. and fifty wero hiirnt. A verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane through oreoindulgence in intoxicants was returned.  On Monday, a Burnley for the first time since its incorporation in 1861, the freedom of the borough was conferred upon throe "city fathers," Messrs. John Howarth, George Sutcliffe, and Alderman Jamm. Greenwood. all of whom were presented with a caskot tontaining a scroll recording their long and metal services to the borough as aldermen, and mayors.  There was quite an epidemic of weeping at the Preston Borough Police Court on Wednesday. Three youths named Robert Heaps. John James Flynn. and William Salisbury, charged with stealing scrap iron, wept copiously. Their parents and sisters joined in. and one lad's mother sobbed so loudly that she had to be removed from court. The , prosecutor caught tho infection and sobbed profusely. and the sort bole possibly affected the jus. tiers, who bound the lads over under the First Offenders' Act.