The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-03-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BOO. being given in prizes at the next show, which is much more than the average  imount. The Local Government Board have assented to the children in the Banbury Workhouse attending the public elementary schools in the town. An expenditure of £5,000. on new schools at the workhouse will be avoided. Mr. Hilton, a well-known merchant of Southsea and Russel Street, Landport, has committed suicide. Ile appears to have taken poison and then to have , drowned himself in a tank. Mental anxiety is as-. signed as the cause. • The New South Wales gold statistics for 1878 show that 75,000 ounces were received by escort from the goldfield, and 107,000 ounces were received by the Mint for coinage. The return shows a slight increase as compared with the preceding year. At the annual meeting of the governors of the Southport Convalescent Hospital, the report stated that the trustees of the Lancashire Cotton Famine Fund had determined to enlarge the present building and add a new wing, at a cost of £40,000. Louis Jennings, cattle dealer, of Exeter, has been brought up at the Police Court, charged with having in his possession a quantity of diseased beef prepared for the London market, and which had been destroyed by a magistrite's order. He was tined £lO. and costs. The West SUSSex coroner has been in communication with the Home Office r 3specting the Arundel murder, and on his recommendation a reward of £lOO. will be offered for such evidence as will lead to the conviction of the murderer, and a free pardon will be given to any one not the actual murderer. The It'vfit Herald says the inhabitants of Ashford and its vicinity will rejoice to learn that arrangements have been made by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh to extend the term ffr which Ea.stwell Park WM originally hired by them, and that the Duke intends to take the park into his own hands. The committee recently appointed at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Windsor for the purpose of collecting subscriptions, and selecting a present for Princess Louise Marguerite of Prussia has met. A handsome bracelet was chosen, having the simple words " From Windsor" engraved upon it. George Rumble, chemist, and until recently a member of the Lincoln Corporation, has been charged before the city magistrates with selling a poison , viz., arsenic, without sufficient labels, and also with neglecting to enter same in a book as required by Act of Parliament. Defendant was fined £O., ineluding costs.  A depa'aion, headed by Professor Mackie, will shortly %volt upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, :old ask for a grant of .ClOO a year towards the support of a Gaelic Professorship at Edinburgh. The  l'und which the Professor ha's been instrumental in raising is now equal to an endowment of about £3OO per A meeting of representatives of the Metropolitan Vestries has been held at St. Mar:in's Vedry Hall London, under the preddency of Mr. Watherstone, to consider the proposal for the purchase of the property of the water comp anies of the metropolis by the Metropolitan Board of Works. Resolutions were adopted in favour of the scheme. The Gas Committee of the Salford Corporation, titer considering the subject of gas !Yrsee electric lied, has resolved to recommend the Corp .ration to tpply to Parliament fir power to light the borough IT electricity. The Corporation at present manufacture its own gas, but through a series of untoward -vents it has never made much math. Samuel Nicholson, of Stanhope Street and Oxford Gardens, has been charged, at the Marlborough Street Police Court, LMI,IOrt, with travelling in a carria, on the Great Western and Metropolitan Joint Railways without having previously paid his fare, and with intent to avoid payment thereof. He was fined the full penalty of 40s. and costs. A terrible murder has been committed at Killinchy. A farmer named Carrot and a servant named Murray were in Comber delivering grain, and urine.' the everting partook freely of liquor. On reaching home a quarrel took place, when Murray rushed into the 1011t4e, and procuring it double-barrelled gun fired it at hie master, killing him on the spot. He was arrested.  For some months official and semi-official enquiries mice born progressing concerning the rnanagAnent if the Plymouth workhouse. Strong charges have een mod, and much feeling excited, the majority the guardians siding with the workhouse officials. An order from the Local Government Board 1138 been •eived directing the dismissal of the master and the Limier, and recommending the matron to resign.  The Committee of the House of Commons appointed iast session to enquire into the circumstances of the last Clare election, and report on the claim of Sir Bryan O'hoghlen to retain the seat for the county while holding Government otlice in the colony of Victoria, will resume its sittings shortly. Sir Bryan liars not intimated any desire to resign the seat or to take his place and the oaths in the House of Commons.  It appears from a case heard in the West Riding Court, at Bradford, that it has been the practice of numb of men to assemble on Sunday afternoons in the garden of Josh. Baxter, a contractor, and pass the time in drinking, and playing cards for money. Baxter, being summoned for selling beer without a license, was fined £lO. and costs. Twentyfive other defendants, for aiding and abetting, were each tined dos. and costs. A difficulty has unexpectedly arisen between the Board of Trade and the Beaumaris Town Council in currying out tha new drainage scheme, the Bowl claiming the exclusive right to the foreshore, which is also claimed by the Corporation, who urge that such right has been enjoyed by the borough from time immemorial, and under a charter. A reply to that effect has been forwarded to the Board of Trade, and some anxiety is felt with respect to the counter-claim. The Plague Committee of the College of Physicians have recommended to the Dukeof Richmond SurgeonMajorColville, formerly of Bagdad, Dr. Frank Payne, St. Thomas's Hospital, and, if a third he sent. Dr. !ayley, of the Middles It and Fever Hospitals. They have recommended that these gentlemen should receive an honorarium of tea guineas a day, with travelling expenses and the services of a polyglot iouster, and that the Government should insure their 1 i ves.  An ingenious fraud has just been perpetrated at Brighton. A lady resident there was waited on by it ye in unknown to le T, who invited her to sign it fictitious petition, and hiving a plausible story thus obtained a specimen Of her .signatur,, subsequently forged an order on the Brighton Union Bank, where she had an account, foe the delivery of a cheque-book. which he thereby obtained. As yr! the off,,:tder eluded the police, hut a rewarl of VO. tut been imud tor kis aourehension