The Telegram. — 1893-09-19 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE PARISH COUNCILS BILL. A petition in regard to the Local Government (England and Wales) Bill was, at the suggestion of the chairman, allowed to lie on the table, Mr. Eleack remarking that he diit not think there was any need for the board to teach the Government what to do, and that, whatever suggestion might be made. would not, he thought, have any effect on them. (LatigMer.) Jllintatto.—Several parishes being in arrears with their contributions it was ordered that summonses should be issued.  At Exmouth bread is being sold at Sid per 4lls. loaf. Earl Craven has dislocated his collar-bone while riding in a pony race.  A o.,seen,:c.L. of Defoe is f. te.uper :lying in Clielin.ford Union on out-door relief.  A second medical man at Worthing has succumbed to the epidemic of typhoid fever. A servant girl at Ilfracotnbe, worried by her family living as Brist,l, attempted suicide on Saturday. Mrs. Rollaiion. wife of a weaver at Foleth Coventry, gave birth on Thursday night to three sons, who are all living.  Severalgood second crops of hay have been saved in the St. Agnes district. Notwithstanding this the stacks are generally small. The Horse Guards suffer from vary bad teeth. Twelve picked men of an average age of 23 were found to have half their molars decayed.  In Russia, men, women, girls, and even children are frequently flogged on their naked backs with the knout. The victim is generally maimed for life. Lord Malmesbury has been appointed chairman of the Southern Sea Fisheries Committee, which has juiisdietion over Hants, Dorset, and the Isle of Wight.  The Opium Commission concluded on Saturday the taking of evidence in England, and Lord Brassey and his colleagues will shortly proceed to India, and open an inquiry in Calcutta. Orlando Banyard, a youth, is in custody at Birmiogham on suspicion of stealing a quantity of jewellery and £3,000 worth of Midland Railway scrip, which it is believed belonged to Lord George Sanger, of circus fame. The Hereford petition has been abandoned. The Liberals (says the Press Association) are convinced that there were good cases to go upon, but the opinion of the party in London is that it would be undesirable to continue the proceedings. On Friday, a sapper of the Royal Engineers, stationed at Chatham Barracks, named Hunt, was found lying beneath the barrack-room window, from which he had fallen a iepth of about 20 feet. The man e believed to have fallen while walking in his sleep.  On Friday, the steamer Urania reported having spoken the Dutch !teenier Czeklerland, bound for Colombo, with howe stove in, having been in col. liniun with the British steamer Swordsman, which vessel Rank almost immediately. All Ilia crew were Raved, except six Lancers, ACCIDENT TO A ClRCON.—During a parade of Sanger's circus at Bishop's Stortford on Friday, while the procession was turning the corner of an incline, the pole of one of the cars broke, and the car crashed over on to the footpath among a crowd of spectators. Sidney Houghton had his leg broken and movers injuries were sustained by two ladies.  Dr. Wilberforce Smith disapproves of the plan adopted in the educatmn of children of keeping them hack when very little, and then putting prime sore up.sn them when they reach the age of 12 and upwards, an age At which the growth of the body make enormous demands on the ymtem, H. would prefer to send children to the Kindergarten school early in If,, and then rather take the screw off when the critical age of 12 was attained.  THIS Utit:NieLovien.—A deputation of totem ployed pernms waited on Mr. H. H. Fowier, President of the Local Government Board, on Friday, with reference to the question of work being pro. voied for the unemployed by local aothoritieo. Mr. Fowler, in the course of a sympathetic reply, said he had recommended, and would do no again, that local authoririea should start public works, upon which men might be engaged at a fair and proper wag" witliont dinframchinemont. His department would render all the assistance possible to local authorities on the question of providing work for the nnemph yed.