The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-05-26 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

OOO.  MR. CHARLES WILLIAM PETTIT, Undergrivlnate Kellle College, was drowned on Friday afternoon by the upsetting of a boat near Godstow.  THE PRINCE Or WALES hag taken Clworth-park, Sunningdale„the seat of Mr. J. Arbuthnot, for the Ascot week.  Isna Queen, accompanied by Princeos Beatrice and Princesses Elizabeth and Irene of licsse, left Windsor en route for Balmoral.  THE great tire which broke out on Thursday in the Saw Mills and carpentry yards at Lyons has resulted in damage estimated at 4,000,000 f. The yards belonged to the Soci6t6 des Fonderies de l'Horme. Five thousand railway wagons, in course of construction, were burnt, and about I,Boo—some reports say 3,ooo—workmen have been thrown out of employment by the disaster.  THE London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company's pier at Queensborough took lire at about 4 pan, on Friday, and was totally destroyed.  AN Italian, Ciarilla Piargle, owner of a group of "fortune-telling canary birds,' was tined ss. and costa, by the West Hartlepool Bench,onWednesday,fpr obstruct. lug the footpath. £2ols. Bd. was found in his possession.  THE O'Donoghue, M.P. haying effected a settlement of his financial affairs resumed, his parliamentary duties on Thursday afternoon, being his first attendance in the House of Commons this session.  THE Inner Circle Railway Bill of the Metropolitan and Metropolitan Districts Railway Companies on Friday came before a Select Committee of the House of Commons, which passed the preamble so far as to give a year's extension of time for the construction of the lines.  AT the Scarbro' County Court, Charles Hunt, one of the banner-bearers of the Salvation Army, was sued for Ell ss. There was a pro. cession of the Salvation Army, preceded by Hunt waving a banner. A man was driving a cart down New. boro', and met the procession. The complaint was that the waving of the banner caused his horse to shy and run away and injured plaintiff, who claimed damages.—The judge gave a verdict for the plaiutiff for the amount claimed.  THE wills of the following testators have been proved for the respective amounts of personalty undermentioned: —Lientenant.General Robert Cannon, late of Folkestone, over £74,000; Mr. Joseph Harris, of Westcotea, Leicester, under £35,000; Mr. 1 homes Camp, late of Hatfield, Herts, farmer, over £27,000; the Rev. George Weare Braikenridge, late of Winash, 13rialington and of Clare. moot, Clevedon, Somersetshire, over £24,000; the Hon. Spencer Dudley Montagu, late of Hare Hatch, near Twy. ford, 13erks, over £24,000; Sir William Payne Gallway, late of Thirkleby-park. near Thirsk, Yorkshire, °vet £9,000: and Mr. Willis Henry Lowe, ate of Marlborough House, Lower Addiscombe-road, Croydon, over £48.000.  ONE of the curiosities, and it may be added without flattery, attractions of the Grosvenor Gallery, is a watee colour painting by the Duke of Argyll. LAST week quite a crop of fine edible mushrooms was discovered growing on the roof of Canterbury Cathedral.  A 131crcrE meeting at Hampton Court resulted on Saturday in the most gigantic procession of this character that has ever been witnessed. Nearly 200 clubs sent representatives, and no fewer than 2,350 machines were ea Hampton-green. A NUMBER of living black bass, the now famous game fish of the 'United States, Canada, and Mexico, were recently brought over by Mr. George Shepherd Page, the president of the American Fish Cultural Association, and presented to the Duke of Sutherland. These fish, each about 1 lb. in weight, the largest that have ever before been conveyed alive a distance of nearly 4,000 miles, hare been safely deposited in a suitable lake in Sutherland. A RAILWAY contractor at Crittenden, New Mexico, having brought coolies to Philadelphia to build a railway, t he other labourers revolted, drove the Chinese as ay, and hung the contractor to a telegraph pole, keeping him ens. pended until he promised to introduce no more Chinese.  THE imspicimis parcel which was sent to the Duke of Devonshire was found to contain nothing more terrible than a few geological specimens sent to the family. THE body of a girl named Simcoe has been found in the River IVelland, at Spalding. The deceased, who was only 15 yeses of age, after having had a quarrel at bee home, went out saying she would commit suicide.  AT the Preston Sessions John Mercer was charged with stealing a horse. The prisoner and another man had daringly taken the animal, value (*guineas, from a farm. They drove it over 50 miles, and being unable to sell it, they took it to a knacker's yard, and, professing it WM diseased, had it killed, and received 15s. for the skin and carcase. A sentence of 18 months' bard labour waa passed.  IN consequence of the great difficulty which is now found in ventilating the St. Gothard's Tunnel, it has been considered absolutely necessary to see what can be done to supersede steam by means of an electric railway. Siemens is to be employed to construct one. FROM the North Sea alone about 100,000 tons of Soh are landed every year on our coasts, and the total supply coming into London is estimated to be equal, for the pur• poses of food, to a drove of 1,000 oxen daily. This inter. eating calculation is made by Mr. Spencer Walpole, the new Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, who was for some years associated with the late Mr. Frank Buck. land, and subsequently with l'rofessor Huxley, as an inspector of fisheries. Mr. Walpole believes that with proper arrangements' an appreciable reduction in the price of fish might he brought about, and that an immense quantity of excellent food that i 4 now wasted might be made available for the use of the people. AT the Bow•street police-coon last week, a newspapet vendor named Thomas :knee wee committed for trial on the charge of wilfully breaking six panes of glee.% value £6O, belonging to Mr. Edward Dwyer Gray, M.P., at the London offices of the Freeman's Journal, 211, Strand. When charged, the prisoner said he had done it in con. sequence of a" scurrilous " article appearing in the &bona paper "against Englishmen." M. JOHN JONEg JEFRixs, M.P. for Carmarthen, on whom her Majesty has been pleased to beatow the honour of knighthood, in commemoration of the recent visit of the Prince of Wales,ia a manufacturer at Swansea, of which borough he has been thrice mayor—namely, in 1R69•70, ix 870-80, and again in 1880-81. He id %is° • magistrate for and an alderman of Swansea, and • magistrate for Glamorganshire. Having unsuccessfully contested Carmarthen at the last general election, he was returned to Parliament early in the present year for that constituency, in the room of Mr, Williams, who accepts 4 a Countv•court Judgeship.