Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1898-07-08 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

NOTES ON NEWS.  Tura Week issue under the Treaty Series of thri Foreign Office, is a copy of the Convention betweet Great Britain and Belgium referring to arbitratiot the ORM of Mr. Ben Tillett. The arluiratiou is to he left to a foreign jurist, who is to consider whether Hu claim for a pecuniary indemnity on behalf of Mr Tillett for hie arrest and ill-treatment in Belgium it August, 1806, is well founded, and what should br its amount.  WHAT are the relations between General Shafter. commanding before Santiago, and General Commander-in-Chief at Washington P In reply tc a telegram from the latter announcing hill approaching viwit to Santiago, General Sliafter replied : Delighted Commander-in-Chief co g in the front. OA he can then aee for himself the olistaclei which the army of occupation has to encounter.  Is it vary iiiiapicioua to read between the lines some little verification of the rumours of a certaiu coolness between the two generals?  Tun roinenn Bill, which is directed against the unrestricted or unregulated male of onrbolie acid and •'ler poisons, hen oempleted its quiet prianagc thronei the House of Lords, but a strong body of opposition has already formed itself to prevent itv passage through the Home of Commons. The point of objection to ita originates with the East End vestries. who have to distribute disinfectants among the poor people of the East Enil. They consider that the Bill will prevent this act of sanitary nocannily. and that the interests of public health will suitor to an extent far beyond the advantages which the Dill will carry with it in the way of preventing accidents and suicide. Whether anything can be done to meet this new view of the case is not clear. It ina difficulty which is not confined to London. The vestries have appointed a deputation to wait upon tho Duke of Devonshire to represent this oulty, and if an effective amendment cannot be introduced into the Bill to urge him to allow it to he withdrawn.  M. Simms, who is this year one of the leading tenors of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, wee born at Bruges, in the Baum Pyrenees. He WAN it seems, left an orphan and entirely unprovided for at eight, but after tramping some distance he obtained a post as shepherd at Roquefort. Biz years later, at his native village, he became a maker of the canvas shoes worn by the peasantry, and after working for soma time on the railway then in proems of construction between Pan and Eaux Rounes, he resumed the sandal-making at Bayonne. There, R 5 he was walking home one night singing to himself, his voice attracted the notice of M. Dubin, the local mmicion, who invited him home, and was so struck by the beauty of a pure tenor organ that he introduced him to certain citizens at Bayonne. Thanks to their generality, M. Salem wee educated, first locally, and afterwards at the Paris Coneervatoire, where in 1888 he obtained the first prize for singing, and was soon afterwards engaged at the Paris Grand Opera. His subsequent career is well-known,  A enomia incident occurred recently in a field situated between the villages of Carlton and Gedling, near Nottingham. Mowing operations were begun at a hedge-aids near to a small opineey in which wee an apiary with thirty or forty hives of bees, the property of Masers. Trimniings and Mackinnon, of Godling. Aa the mowing machines pru.sed along the bees were somewhat disturbed—whether they had " swarmed " in the gram ore hedge-bottom has not been discovered—and thousands of Nem fastened on the two horses working the machines. In a very short space of time the pskor animals were stung nearly all over their bodies. Tue man attending the machine was also stung badly about his face and head, and finally ran away. Unfortunately the horses were unable to detach themeelvee, owing to their frantic state, from the machine, and it was not anti! one ei the owners of the bees arrived that the iple could be sawn in two and the animals liberated. The bear had fastened themselves in thews of the horses, and the wretched animals dashed their heads against the galls and walls, but to no purpose. They week ultimately taken home and a Veterinary surgeon was sent for. One animal, worth £4O, died the mune evening, and the other shortly after.  THE Rev. G. D. Mell.Utlth, rector of /Lehman), Devon, left hero in humble life who is far more deserving of honour than many a decorated veteran of the batth field. In the canna of hie pamtoraldlitisa he encountered a farm boy atricken with typhoid fever. Rix parents wore unable to come to his soloistarms, and the villagers with one accord fled from the poor &offerer as from a pestilence. No one would raise hand or foot to help him, and even when the doctor took him to the station in a carringe on Itia , way to the hospital, it was only with difficulty that I someone oould be got to hold the horse's head while the patient lIRA being removed to the train. Previous to this, however, the Rev. G. D. Melbuirth had rendered the lad a noble service. Re was the only person in the place who would do anything for the stricken boy, and when all refused to help, and it became impossible to got a nurse, the clergyman undertook that duty hitneelf, and assiduously tended the lad for three days and nights, regardless of his t•wo danger. There was nothing but the stern call of duty to keep him to his post, no stirring roll of d .... s, no flash of steel, no roar of artillery, or anything else that maim; brave the most timid men; duty alone was his inspiration, and lii., deed ranks on R higher and 1110 re moral plane of heroism than the battlefield can show.  EVERY admirer of Wordsworth—whether he be an enthusiast or a simple reader of his poems—will acknowledge the munificence of Professor Knight'. lateat gift to the trustees' of Dove Cottage. For many years that place has been the Mecca of Lakeland, whither thousand's have wended their way, as they have done to Stratford or Abbotsford, to pay homage at a poet's 'shrine. Whatever of interest that place has had will be imtneasurably increased by Professor Knight's; 'splendid offer of " all the editions of Wordsworth's' poems in hispossessions,ot many Wordsworth relic, and portraits, sketches. cud engravings, SA well as of original