The East Riding Telegraph. — 1903-03-28 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

IMPORTANT TO STOCK-BREEDERS.  The East Riding of Yorkshire Swine Fever Order, which came into operation on Wednesday I was read before the Hull Cattle Plague Committee on Wednesday by the Town Clerk. It prohibits, except as mentioned in the Order, the movement of swine out of the scheduled district, which comprises the Petty Sessional Division of the North Hunsley Beacon, South Hunsley Beacon, North, South, and Middle Holderness, and also Beverley and Hull. It authorises the movement of swine not being in a swine fever infected place out of the scheduled district by a movement licence granted by the local authority of the district in which the swine are. The licence is granted upon a declaration signed by the owner to the effect that the swine have been on the premises twentyeight days, that no other pig has been brought on to the premises within such time, that the swine are not infected with swine fever, and have not been in any way exposed to infection. The Town Clerk also submitted regulations made by the East Riding County Council, and which came into operation on Monday, prohibiting the movement of swine into the district of the local authority of the East Riding, from the district of any other local authority, except as mentioned in the regulations. These provide for the movement into the district of the East Riding of swine for breeding purposes upon a licence being granted, the movement licence being issued on a declaration made by the owner or his agent. All swine moved by licence under these regulations must be taken to premises named in the licence, and remain there for twenty-eight days. 1 The regulations also provide for the movement of salme into the East Riding from public markets, sales, etc., within the district of any 1 other local authority upon licences granted by the officer of the East Riding local authority. All swine moved under these licences must be marked by a red cross, and taken direct to the premises named in the licence and slaughtered within four days. A letter was also read from the Clerk to the East Riding County Council stating that no licence for breeding purposes would be granted for the removal of pigs from the district to the local authorities of Hull and Beverley.  Removal of the remains of executed murderers from Newgatte Gaol and reburial at the City of London Cemetery has cost £278 10s. 3d. .Shipley District Council have purchased from the firm of Sir Titus Salt, Bart., Sons, and Co., the right of gas supply in Saltaire for the sum of £33,000. Charged on Tuesday at Southwark with attempted suicide by jumping into the Thames, off Bankside stairs, a married woman said that she " did it out of silliness."  " I could not resist the temptation connected with the handling of Money," pleaded a man sentenced to a month's imprisonment at Southwark for theft.  Lord Rosebery has presented a site for the erection of a new Wesleyan Methodist Church at Cheddington, within a mile of his mansion at Mentmore.  The body of a woman about forty years of age was found in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Ince, near Wigan, on Tuesday morning, by a man on his way to work. Dr. Alfred Hill, the medical officer for Bin mingham, is retiring. He is seventy-seven, and has been officially connected with the town for forty-three years.