The Telegram. — 1895-07-16 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

BRISTOL AND BATH DISTRICT.—BanweII, Joseu Gibson, Samuel J. Johnston (Axbridge Somerset), Weston- super-Mare, Robert F. Cape, John Barna,;‘ John Morton (Burnham, Somerset); Edward J. Robinson, supernumerary. bath, John Holmes, John Dymond, George Mac Neill; Samuel Haigh, Thomas Wood (e), supernumeraries. Kingswvod School, Wesley Brunyate, governor and chaplain. Wiltshire Mission Meliksham, Philip Hawkes, Daniel Bate, William D. Barton, supernumerary • Chippenham, Henry J. Blaadale ; Caine, Albert Dixon; Devizes, Alfred G. Burrell ; Warminster,Herbert Windrows; Trowbridge and Bradford, Richard Butterworth, Humphrey Morrison (Bradford-on-Avon). Midsomer Norton (Bath), Henry Parkes. William G. Corke (Radstock, Both); John Priestley, supernm inerary. Poulton (Bristol), Philip Csllier, Joseph Kewley. Frome, Aimm.iomus Burgess, Ebenezer Cole. Sheptou Mallet, Onsrles W. Prest, George H. Howson (Wells, Somerset), William Powell (C) (Holcombe, Bath). Castle Cary, John Damplough. Glastonbury, Josiah B. Harbord, George Clement (Street, Somerset), John Danko (Street, Somerset),  The present accuinslated dein of the Wesleyan Missionary Society is L 30,478.  • Lord Finaebery has gone on a yachting trip along the West Coast of Scotland. The body of John England, • blacksmith, was Monday, found in a pond at Merthyr. Ninety.nine steamers and Railing vessels navi. gated the Manchester Ship Canal daring the week —43 inwards, bb outwards.  Lord Roberts declares that the shooting stand• ard attained by the Indian troops is unequalled by any troops in the world.  The British barque Scotland, New York for Christiana, bas been towed into &rousted; totally &masted and with no crew on board.  The French Chamber on Friday passed unanimously the bll ior the erection of a monument to the soldiers who fell in the war of 1870.  Mr. Goodfellow, si.in of Dr. Goodfellow, if Paigoton. and two men assisting bun in sailing a boat, were drowned in Torbay on Friday. The Rev. Dr. Ferrier, curate of Whiston, hiui been killed in consequence of the tyreof his bicycle getting loe,e and upsetting the machine.  _ Thomas Plnlbps, an innkeeper, of St. Cohank, Road, was chasing hi, cattle off the railway, when the Corniith exprese ran over and killed him.  In the case of the Front' ganger killed on the railway near Truro, on Thursday, the coroner's jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst tempo', arily insane." It is reported from Shanghai that China has placed orders for two ironclad. of 8,000 tons and two cruisers of 4,000 tons with firms in England and Germany, The Ashburton Shield has been won by Charter. house with an aggregate of 432 ; Glen Almond being second with 420; Uppingham, third, 410; Eton, fourth, 409.  Benjamin Walters, a young man. fell between rollers used for making sheet iron at Wolverhampton on Wednesday. and was squeezed into an unrecognisable ma.s.  The Temperaoze Committee of Wesleyan Conference asks all Wesleyan* to vote at the General Election independently of party for candidates who will support Local Veto.  _ An old lady named Stonestreet was carrying a lamp downstairs at Dorking on Wednesday, when she fell; the lamp exploded and set tire to her clothe., and she was burnt to death.  Mr. H. Savage, Rchool to aster, of Harbnry, placed himself on Tueeday night on the lines of the Great Western Railway at Barbary on the approach of the Oxford express, which cut a hie head.  Alf. Greenfield, the famous pugilist, many yeera champion of England, died in. ham on Wednesday. Greenfield has foe some years been confined in a lunatic asylum in Birmingham. A petroleum spring has been discovered near Am Fedeles, iii the province of Oran ; 5,000 litres have been extracted in five hours, and the source ptomines to prove one of the most important in the world.  The heirs of Jay Gould have been spending thousands in an effort to escape paying the tax on his vast estate. Another American "millionaire is nueing to recover 100,000 dole. lost in bets over pigeon-shooting matches.