Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-09-02 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

WAR IN FIJI. I SUSPICIOUS DEATH IN CHELSEA. A PERIL FOR. BANKERS AND OTHERS. In Fiji (says the Times) everything went wed until, Dr. Diplock resumed the inquiry at the Oock A new and totally unexpected peril, says the Echo, 1 ,axwts year ago. "the carob...moss of certain officials," Tavern, North-street, Knightsbridge, into the cause of has just been added to the legion that already encom• as Governor Sir Arthur Gordon puts it. introduced the the death of Sarah Bedford, who was alleged to have pass bankers and others who dentin Bills of Exchange; measles among the moires. What with Europeans died tinder suspicious circumstances, her husband a peril, too, which comes upon them from a quarter is an ordinary malady of eltilditeed fell alien ilie having committed suicide on the same day. At the whence they were perfectly convinced no danger could Fijians as a raging and deadly epidemic. More than Let hearing of the ease it was stated that the deceased arise. A regulation in the Stamp Office, of which the 40,000 people, probably a third of the entire popula- vas ad years of age, and, with her husband, carried public are in profound ignorance, has, it appears, neon, Were swept away. The circumstance of this .or n dairy business at 40, North-street,which had seri- opened the way for a new description of fraud to a miserable story were some tints ago officially es- misty deteriorated of late. The^ had not lived upon manner which it. is hnpossible to detect. plainest, but it is with the result that we have new to I very good terms, owing to the deceased woman Under the present Stamp Act Bills of Exchange for deal. In the letter sent by Sir Arthur Gordon , &vier way to habits of intemperance, which had pro- over £lOO are liable to a stamp duty of ono shilling to the Colenial Office a connection is traced between voted the husband to strike her even as into as a day per cent —thus a bill for £3lOO now requires to be the epidemic of loot year and the disturbances or two before her death. She had had fairly good stamped with ills only ; previously, a ..t2 stamp which we have lately heard of. The destruction .of healt It, but wasteland with a Ilt on the oth inst. She would have been necessary, outliers was no intenseone in these among the metros impressvd the uticivi. rallied from this, but again relapsed, and, after some dials stamp between 30s, which was sufficient for a heed mind with a vague senor or rebunan between the suffering, died. The medical evidence went to show .E3OOO bill, and one for £2 which was required for evil that had sini!ten tine at and the clianges to which that an effusion of blood on the right side of the any amount between £3OOO and £4OOO. In they hid subtnitt,d. The tribes of the interior cape- 'brain was the cause of death, but whether front blows order to avoid keeping the almost infinite ',jelly were exposed to this peril; they hod been only lor natural causes could not be stated; but in the number of dies which would be required superficially eouverted to the new Oyes, and in their I absence ef marks of violence, the latter Was the most under the present system to impress a single minds germinated most rapidly the j,alous belief that I probable cause. The jury were dissatisfied with the stamp for each bill, the Stamp Office makes up an tithe pestilence lind been purposely introduced by medical evidence, and adjourned for another medical amount of say 318 ,by impressing the paper with one their rulors to tee then their stremth." Such measures opinion. , statnp of 30e, and another for Is. The consequence is as it Woe pOssitile to take for encountering the risks Dr. J. Baber now stated that he had attended the that bilis bearing two or more stamps are very usual, arising from these agitations were taken promptly i deceased woman the day previous to her death. Mr. and that these stamps should bear different dates is by Sir Ardiur Clordom Ile sought interviews with I Bedford asked hint to examine his wife, as she bad ; not uncommon, as stamp distributors wanting a 31s. the mountain chiefs, and warned them that if they I been addicted to habits of intemperance and he was ' statnp would send one for 305., and get an additional wore desirous to escape punishment they toast re- ! desirous of sending her to some friends of his in , shilling impressed. An inland Bill of Exchange must enact certain elementary conditions of order. e They L the country, but shorild like to know whether ,be drawn upon paper already stamped with a must acknowledge the mareniacy of the Government, ; she was ;., is fit condition to bear the journey. I sufficient amount of duty no stamp can be they must abstain from murder, they must not carry i Re exam;ited her, but saw no bruises; she VMS in I added afterwards a bill for £5Ol drawn upon off women from the Christian villages, they must la half-unconscious state. He told the husband 1 a ss. instead of a 6s. stamp is legally utterly worthabandon cannibaliem." To sopport these admonitions she could not go array, but he would prescribe for her , loss, the Stamp Office will not add the wanta stroim ramp wae formed on the borders of the dis- , and see her next day; but she died during, the night. 1 tug shilling. Under these circumstances, the universal limbed c antry, and the Governor entertained the ! Ito believed the hoeband to have been a kind mr.n to i belief amongst business men was, that if any one hope that "if only a few numtlis could be tided 1 his wife, hitt was anxious to break her of her evil I signed his name upon a blank 3s. bill stamp he could over, the whole of the mountaineers would be bought i habits. Front the examination be had made of the ibe made liable for £3OO and no lanes; but if he tinder control without bloodshed and without fear for 1 body since death he believed she had died frost I eignell a blank cheque be would be liable for any the Cotner.- Nor was this hope, according to the' apoplexy. The jury, after a short deliberation, re- i amount for which the cheque was at tersvarcla drawn. facts as given in Sir Arthur's le u I tter, nreasonable. tented a verdict in accordance with the medical teed- Of course, no inan of btisiness would sign his name on A good h.at of the pot -Mallon, even in the Bill ; a blank stamp, but there are tens of thousands who Country, was its " W.:Mei:h a i e n,' orderly as Regent- I . sign hill stamps who are not men of business, and be street, and the discontented tribes themselves were EXT R lieve that the amount impressed upon the paper before