Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1897-04-09 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

ROUND AND 'ABOUT.  -0.- Baroness Mrs-eh—hits scnt a donation of £l,OOO towards the building of a Frcnch voilvaloseent hotne at Brighton in connection with the French Hospital in London.  Judge Emden, sitting at Lambeth Coliniy Court, conunented severely on the management of the Tug% House Nursing Co-operation in dismissing a via m against a patient.  At the annual meeting of the Court of Governor ,of the North London Cousainption Hospital, it was stated that comathiption was on the increase, espe,tally among the pOOTPT At rortsmouth, Mrs. Annie Goutytry obtained a maintenance order for 15s. per week, and costs, against her husband, formerly minister of a Congregational church at Portsea. The Health Committee of the Liverpool Corporation have decided to rec ..... mend the Council to carry out the proposed Cook Street improvement at a total cost of 4:275,000.  The Kin srston lioensing: jam ices ref Intel a license to tho Hurst Park Club Howe, on the ground that there was no evidence to mhow that the requiretnento of the public denotrol,d  On Saturday Richard Pittenck, landlonl of the Robin Hood puhlic-house,Wigan, committed suicide by hanging himself in a bedroom. The deceased hal been a steady mau. The late Duke of Hamilton's wines and liqueurs were sold by auction in London litet week. The total of the sale approximately amounted to £2,600 for about 800 dozen bottles.  Mr. Amborn, who died at Peabody last week, left instructions for an unostentatious funeral sods very humble monument with a simple instr iption, Ambora—Aindead."—" Kansa.. City Journal."  In England the man who 'ran write M.P. atter name rejoices in a prestige ar i• li borders on iiiiije,•ty itself. In France, on the contrary, tle. Benet, r ••• an object for our ridicule, the Deputy for our hatred, and this combination of miseries constitutes our Parliament.—" Le Gaulois."  The body of a young man, about twenty-one years old, was found in a bathroom at Wigan public bath.. The deceased, who was well dressed, engaged u private bath the other night, and was supposed to have left the building. When found his head was., under water, which was only a foot deep  The Bishop or .11armorough presnled at the bevettteenth annual rueeting of the Church Mission to the Fallen, held at the Chapter House of St. Paul's Cathedral. During the year sixty-four women had been placed in homes' twenty-four in service, twelve sent to hospital, and eighteen returned to relatives. Ditton Park is tor sale. The well-known Buckinghamshire seat of the late Dowager Duchess of Buccleuch, which has been in possession of the Montague family for generation., will be put up to auction in July next, unless it is disposed of by private contract meanwhile. The estate, which extends over 1,000 acres, is famed for its magnificent park and pleasure grounds, which are laid out in the ancient style.  The Rev. 11. B. Raweis writes from Queen's House Ch‘lne Walk, S.W., to call attention to the sad case of Mille. Thesese Liebe, •• • violinist who some years ago charmed the English public." She is now lying dangerously ill and is in want of corns 711011 necossari.-s, having lost her colonial savings in a Melbourne bank and spent her other savings in supporting her aged parents. Mr. Ha weis is trying to raise .£5O for her.  The magistrate at the Worship Street Po:ice Court, London, had before him a man who had flourished a revolver in the streets and bad refused to give his name and address. The weapon was not loaded. In giving his decision, the magistrate expressed his intention to deal severely with men who carried firearms without a license. As, however, he could not punisl the defendant for this, he imposed the full penalty for refusing a name and address—a fine of £lO., with the alternative of a month's imprisonment.  No parallel is probably to be found for the long period during which Mr. John Lawrence has held the mastership of the Llaugibby Hounds, in Monmouthshire. For sixty years, has this ardent and genial sportsman presided over the destinies of the hunt in the district of " Old Caerleon-upon-Usk." A meeting at Newport, over which the Duke of Beaufort presided, has just unanimously resolved to present the veteran sportsman with a portrait of himself to be painted by an eminent artist. Mr. Lawrence is in his eighty-eighth year, and still enjoys the best of health. A novelty is about to be introduced in some of the London theatres and ninsie-halls. It is a development of the aniinatograph. Instead of moving pictures, the news pf the night is to be thrown upon a screen when the curtain falls at the end of an act of turn. The enterprise is undertaken by three London journalists. By an ingenious arrangement, the news as it comes during the night is to be telegraphed to the places of entertainment, and then thrown in large letters upon a screen. Thus during the intervals the audience will be able to read the latest items of news, and the tedium of long waits will be removed.  There is bad news from New South Wales. The Tichborne ease is, we are told, to be heard all over again in connection with William Cresswell. In many remote English villages middle-aged men are only just now beginning to mend the quarrels that arose between them over Arthur Orton, and the question, "Is he the man'" And one can only hope that the Concert of Europe may be able to settle the quarrels between Cretan and Turkish villagers in time to deal with the new Tichborne question and prevent bloodshed. A blockade of England and New South Waleg to prevent the lauding of legal documents and funds for lawyers' fees might have a pacifying If it John Brockett Sorrell, solicitor, of Theydon was summoned 13,•fore Mr. D'Eyneourt, at North London Police Court, for annoying a young lady named Charlotte Green. Mr. C. V. Young ',rug,. cutedl, and said that at one time the parties welkiiii out together as lovers, but the young holy took° off the engagement. The defendant, howeve-r, dii li, ceusent to this, and persistently followed loir about, IN a residt of which he had had to give up two situations, one of which slot hail held for six years She had 1101 V gone to an address unknown to thii defendant, but eight ,lays Ng. lie fi ihh,iwrit far for it long time, and forced his pre:410100 1111011 hr 01 MI VIMIACOUr to find Out where also dyed. She wile quite afraid of bill'. .rh,, iletitilant, after bearing the opening statement, said it was " very painful " to him. and WINOII:AM to :10 hound I.lyer di a alUll oh S:100. to keep the peso.