The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-03-13 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

OOO. e • • •  The death has taken place at Them., at the age of 83, of Mrs. Sarah Hudson, stated to be the lest earrivor of the 01-fated troopwhip Birkenhead, which was wrecked near give of Good Hope in 1832, with thole/is of .4541ites. She was the wife of Private Mark Bodeen, of the sat 'Regiment. who was also 48'red, *ether with a baby eon. born on  • • •  the fille, journey. Interrupted weddana are the vogue at West Haridepoel._ Tett:day mews& et t. Panne Cleuroh, a fur brlde and her  complement of guests waited in vain for the appearance of the bridegroom, it being subsequently ascertained that he was fast asleep in bed, having completely forgotten his important engagement. The marriage was duly solemnised in the afternoon. Only a week ago. at the same church, another bride was disappointed, her suitor, a doctor's dispenser, having mysteriously disappeared at the last moment. lie has not ' eauce been heard of. .•• • •  A Wednesday's telegram from Rome states :—The Pope is muc.h better to-day, and, taking advantage of the beautiful spring weather, insisted on resuming he audiences. The Pope was not allowed to descend. into the Stets apart:Mont. Re, therefore, received .Cardinal Richelm.v. Archbishop of Turin, and Mgr. Trobec„ Bishop of St. Cloud, in his private apartments  • i •• •  A Blue Book issued by the Board of Trade howe the progress of merchant shipping. In 1907 the total tonnage of vessels, sailing and steam, that entered and cleared in the foreign trade at porta in the United Kingdom was 133,271,720 tons. Of this total 81,308,442 tone, or 61.0 per cent., were, British. The next highest tonnage was that of German vessels with 13,355,013 tons. In 1905-6 the proportion of British tonnage to the whole was 63.3 per cent. The highest proportion reached in the series of 'Tears was in -1895. when the proportion of British tonnage to the whole was 72.9 per cent. In 1860 the proportion was 56.4 per cent. The , tonnage en the register of the British Empire in 1907 was 13,183.355, ooingbared with the United States, 6,938,794; German Empire, 2,790,432; France, 1,402,657.  • • • • The estimates for Chi! Service and Revenue Departments for the financial year ending Match, 1910, were issued on Tuesday. The total amount required is placed at £62,420,901 net, against an actual grant of 253.734,074 for the present year. A vote on account of £26,41,000 is asked for bi, the Treasury, representing provisions for about live months expenditure. The expendithre on Civil Services is estimated at £40,070,171, as against an actual expenditure of £53,734,074 daring the present year. The expenditure on Revenue departments is estimated at £22,350,730, as against £21,645,61 during the present year. Oldage pensions are estimated to require £8,750,000, as against an expenditure of 21200,000 provided in the estamates of the present year. • • • •  The forts-sixth anniversary of the wedding a King Edward and Queen Alexandra was celebrated st Windfior on Wednesday.. A Royal salute was fired in Windsor Park. The municipal and Government buildings were decorated, and St. George's Chapel belle sere rung.  • • • •  The eseention of Castagno, who is now in Knutsford Gaol under death sentence for the murder of a fellow-countryman at Stockport, has been postponed. A letter of reepitoOlme been received from the Home Secretary. The execution had been fixed for to-day (Saturday). _  The Rev. R. J. Campbell. writing in this weelee "Christian Commonwealth," says, in regard to the exclusion of leaders of the New Theology movement from the platform of the Free Cburch Council, that persons who draw up programmes for gatherings of the Congregational Union, etc., dare not eay that they refuse a place to leaders of the New Theology because they are opposed to the movement; but that, be declares, is the only reason. They dare not delete his own name, for example, from their list of fully accredited ministers, but they secured the same end by "backstairs" means.  Early on Tuesday morning, Thomas Thomson, a labourer, cut hie wife's. throat in Orohard-street, Partick, Glasgow, and, then out his own throat, with fatal conesquenoes to both. A lodger named Maccaulay wee suddenly awakened by haring 124 bedclothes torn ofi. He was horrified to see Mrs. Thomson with blood running from bar throat Maooaulay sprang up, and, entering the kitchen, he was further horrified to see th% husband hacking st las own throat. Maccaulay attempted to take the razor from Thomson, but only partially succeeded. Meantime the poor woman had dropped to ins floor and died  S • • • The Begistrar-General's report for last week gives the following local particulars: --Death r. te per 1,009 in Birkenhead 23.7, in Wallasey 2, in Liverpool 25.4. In Birkenhead 22 of the deaths were those of aged pertows, and 11 thew of itfants.  S • • er Asphyxiation by gas FM the method of suicide adopted by Mies Miriam Parkinson, 27, postmistress at the Long Fold Branch Post Office, Bolton, who on Saturday morning was found 'by her father lying in bed unconscious. One end of a rubber tube had been fixed to the gas pipe and the *titer end was in Miss Parkinson's mouth. A doctor was immediately called, but he pronounced life extinct.  On Saturday afternoon 300 students of Warsaw University, mostly Russians and Jews, irrsanidiett an unauthorised meeting in order to domes the reform of the ezimoina, tions. The Rector ordered them to withdraw, and as the students refused he telephoned to the Governor Genera), who ordered a battalion of intanry to hurry to Ithe University. The troops broke into the lhail and arrested 140 students.