The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-09-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

COO. for work done at twoassize towns. '—Low Times.  The City and Guilds Inetitutehaving granted £4OO Fur annom for piarposeA of technical education to University Coil-go, London. have resolved that the ',ant Lc appropriated in maintaining the chair of chemical tot! logy, and that of engineering and rn chanical technology.  The salaries throughout the whole North Bri tisk liAlway system have been reduce!, the directors setting the example by accepting reduced fe. s. It is ,aid that the mauler of proofs affected by Vie,redealtua will be over 12,500, and that the saving thus effected will amuunt to about £50,000. a year.  "An Actor," writing in the Era, denies the truth if the statement that Mr. Buckstone is in absolute want. 'foe last benefit given for him realises over t 1,200. Mr. (2:take has been allowing him £3 per week for some time past, and he has an annuity ef E6O. per annum from the Royal Genet, Theatrioal Fund.  Some days ago the French press s of King Humbert of Italy being in bad health. A gentb man Ono very recently had an interview with the King of Italy says that this statement is entirely erione. ems. His Majesty is in the enjoyment of perfect health,being in no way affected with any pulmonary affection.  Five Italians were killed and six wounet.€l in an eneminter with sheriffs' officers, at a coal mine ia Nevada, on Sunday the 17th ult. They weie part of a gang of eoal-burners, and were armed. The fight was a desperate one. None of the officers were injured. The sheriff went to levy a warrant at the time.  A consid.rible_stir has been caused in Stockton.  in consequence of 300 men being locked out of the workhouse stoney.rd, The men, all of whom have wives and families, went in a body to the office of the relieving officer and demanded relief. Amiss meeting was sub,equently held, but no breach of the peace was committed.  A lodger in Wright's Temperance Hotel, Catherine Street Edinburgh, has committed suicide by shooting himself. He is supposed to be named A. \V. Haxton, and to have parents residing in Markinch, Fife, to whom he has left a letter staling that he had found life not worth living for, and asking their forgivenees.  Mr. Brough Smyth, formerly chief inspector of the gold fields of South Australia, has examined the Wynitad gold field, and reported to the Government that not much gold is left in the alluvial deposits, but that tho quartz reefs of that district contain more gold than many of those which have boon successfully worked in Australia.  William Hawkins, boatswain of her 'Majesty's ship Asia, has been tried by court-martial, on board the Duke of Wellington flagship at Portsmouth, on tho charge of being drunk on board his ship on tho 2nd ult. He pleaded guilty, and as he had twice been tritd, was sentenced to be dismissed her Majesty's service.  When a play becomes popular in London there is riooyino .‘ hen it may be heard of next. Our latest intaligence from India brings word of the enthusiastic reception of Our Bop at Bungalow. Mr. John Jack's company gave a first performance of Mr. By' un's popular comedy on Tuesday, July 8, with remarkable success.  The Entr'acte says :—Last week we took some pains to find out tho numerical dimensions of-the audiences of twenty of the piincipal London mmic halls, and. the remit iif our investigation shows us that from Monday, August 18, to Saturday, August 23—both dates inclusive—no less than 172,000 persons were Omitted to these twenty establishments.  In reply to the application of Captain Carey for three months' leave of absence, the Horse Guard* sanction a sufficient exteution of the have air adf gianted by Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar to enable him to send his application in duo fornt thiough the officer commanding the depot of hie giment at Jersey. Captain Carey has left Ports:south for Jersey. In the course of n Board of Trade inquiry at Hun. into the loss of the steamer Bergos, near Cape Freels, Newfoundland, on her voyage front Montreal to London, with a cargo of wheat, sheep, &c., the captain stated that on two occasions after the yea. Set gat on the rocks, from 300 to 400 fishermen plundered the vessel of everything they could seize. At a meeting of the committee for collecting funds to set .blish the proposed bishopric of Liverpool, Mr. Tore, M.P., the treasurer announced that the total amount subscribed was n0w.C96,800., of which £46,000. had been actually paid in. The committee propose .180 to establish six canonries, and appeal for an independent subscription for that purpose.  Frederick Law, 18, cashier at the Junior Oxford and Cambridge Club, has been sentenced at the Martha.. rough Street l'olice Court, London, to one nionth's hard labour for embezzling £7 Os. 9d, the money of his employers, the total amount of his defalcations ring supposed to be about £5O. Prisoner admitted his guilt, and stated that he had lost the money in letting on horse races. The breeding of the Angora goat in California has, after a twi nty years trial, proved a commercial tailure. Though the appearance of the animal is prepossessing, and the wool commands a high price in the market, the yield is not sufficient to pay the interest on the cost and the expense of the keep; while the merino sheep, on the contiary, have mace large fortunes for the breeders since their introduction.  Clement King, a carrier, has been charged at the Worship Street Police Court, London, with having taken a Lorse suffering from farcy and glandtm through a public thoroughfare. The case having het n proved, the magistrate referred to the great ;,,iliger to wilich the defendant had exposed human iife from the contagion of these diseases, and tined kiln the full penalty of £20., half the sum to go to the informer.  A sad accident occurred at Simla, on August 3rd. Mr. Trevor-Foster, assistant superintendent of the Bengal police, was examining a smog pocket-pistol, when the weapon went off in his hands. The bullet truck him in the centre of the forehead, and caused a wound which has reduced him to a very precarious condition. The doctors hare not been able to trace the course of the bullet.