Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1886-05-08 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

COUST-SIERTIAL has been held on board the Don. ens, flag-ship of the Prince of Leiningen, Admiral Commanding in Chief at the Nore, for the trial of George Burd, engine room artificer, of her Majesty's ship Penelope, who was charged with being absent without leave, and with improperly leaving his ship. Captain Thomas S. Jackson, of the Coleus, presided over the Court, and Captain A. Buller, CB., A.D.C., prosecuted. The evidence showed that the prisoner did not return to his ship when his leave expired, and that he afterwards went ashore in defiance of the order of his commanding officer that his leave ww stopped pending an investigation of the charge of leave-breaking. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and a conviction for insubordination having been proved against him, the Court sentenced him to three months' imprisonment with hard labour, and to be dismissed her Majesty's service. A SUICIDE of a very determined character has taken place in Bromley, Kent. Alfred Simmons, aged about 50, who lived with his wife at the Science and Art Institute, as caretaker, had been it. ill-health for some time in consequence of severe paralytic stroke, and had been much depressed in consequence ; added to which was the fear that he might lose his situation owing to his inability to perform his duties. The nth, morning he was unable to eat his breakfast, and he appears to have gone straight from the table to the top of the house, gaining the roof by means of • , Ladder placed against a glass trap-door. He removed the lid of the cistern, and leaning over it inflicted a fearful gash with a pocket knife in the side of his throat fully two inches deep, and a inch and a half long. The unfortunate man then either fell or jumped into the cistern, where he was shortly afterward/ found dead. The knife, stained with blood, was found in the deceased's pocket. INTELLIGENCE from Owen Sound (Ontario) report' that the British steamer Africa, valued at 20,000 dots., has been burnt to the water's edge. kr in stated that some m.litary officers serving in Ireland who have fami y connections in the country have applied to the War Office to be transferred to India. The reason for the request is that they wish to avoid the necessity of acting against Ulster Loyalists in the event oi the latter resisting the introduction of Home Rule into Ireland._ _ .  Mn. J. MANSELL RICHARDSON, of Brocklesby has consented to come forward as a Conservative candidate at the dissolution for the North Lindsey, or •  Brigg, Divtalon of Lincolnshire. Mr. Richardson is the second husband of the Countess of Yarborough. The Pa j master's Greenwich Hospital Pension, worth £5O a year, vacant by the death of Chief Paymaster Samuel Hood L. Giles, has been conferred on Paymaster Henry William D'Aeth. Jr is semi-officially announced in Rome that a telegram has been received from the Italian Consul at Arlin, stating that the Emir of Barrer, after putting to death all the Europeans in his capital, attaelted near G.ldezza, with 200 sedient, the Stientific Expedition under Count POrro, and massacred the whole parry. The Emir then proceeded to Gildezza itself and raptured the town, taking prisoners the AngloEgyptian garrison, consisting of about 100 men. A