The Telegram. — 1896-05-26 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

TRUESDAT. Stewards : The Duke of Beaufort, Lord, Alington, the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, the Earl of Radnor, the Marquis of Cholmo .leley, Hon. Cecil Howard, Sir W. Throckinorton. Bart., Sir J. Thursby, Messrs. G. E. Paget, B. Monerieffe. P.. Pryor, C. P. Shrubh, and Arthur Yates. Stakeholders Messrs. Weatherby. Clerk of the Scales : Mr. J. Sheldon, jun. Auctioneer • Mr. H. A. Stevens. Clerks of the Course : Messrs. E. Figes and E. S. Brown. Jude' Mr. C. E. Robinson. Starter and Handicapper . Mr. It. PAnson. Favoured with splendid weather, this well-known west-country meeting opened on Thursday on the course on Salisbury Plain, and the cathedral city, instilled by contingents of visitors from the atirrounding districts, presented the ani.l Weed appearance which is customary on the occasion of this fixture. During Wednesday severs nice showers fell and materially improved the state of he Muse, though it could not h beett described as  Baron Kotze, who killed Baron Schroder iii duel, has Leen sentenced to two years' imprison. went in a fortress.  Near Worcester, on Sunday, a youth of named A. Holiday, a printer's apprentice, wit drowned while bathing.  A clerk named Robinson, well known in Alder shot and Farnham, was, on Tuesday, found slica through the head near Farnham. A telegram was on Saturday night sent round the world from New York in 50 minutes. The message of 21 worth cost about I:30. Robert Jackson Confect, (A, a commercial traveller, of Eccles, was on Tuesday found lying dead in an entry off Barton Lane, Manchester. The annual meeting of the Peace Society wail held at the Memorial Hall on Tuesday. Sir J. W. Pease presided, and the Bishop of Hereford nu one of the speakers.  The Mayor of Southampton, who.paid an official visit to the American frigate Essex in that pert on Monday, was slightty injured bya salute whisk was fired in his honour, At Liverp3ol,,on Theelay, .llfohn Downes, whole sale confectioner, MLA fined £2.5 and roots for keep. ing a betting house. He betted with people in a entry adjoin ing one of his shops. At Kendal, Misa Edith Thwaites, daughter ols bank manager, has poisoned herself by me adventure having taken essence of almonds bp mistake for essence ot ginger. The Archduke Charles Louis, heir-presumptive to the Austro-Huogarian throne, died .in Tuesday morning. His oldest sun, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, is now heir-presumptive. Mc. Daniel Rees, clerk to the Cardiff borough magistrates, died in London on Sunday. Deceased was also clerk to the School Beard at Cardiff, and held a number of other public offices. Intelligence has been received from Yokohama that Lieutenant Commander Henry Adair, coinmanding Her Majesty's screw gunboat Pigmy, has committed suicide by shouting himself. George \Vatting and his wife were respecti vet' sentenced at Bilston on Tuesday to six weeks' aad six umnths' bard labour for ill-treating their child. ren. Both had previously been convicted. the. eantinned drought in Sussex is causing much I uneasiness, not only amongst the farmers, but is the towns as well. Prayers for rain were offered in many of the churches on Ascension Day. The defence in a vaccination prosecution at Torquay on Tuesday, was that one child in the family; already vaccinated bad lost his eight through the operation. The Bench refused to make an order. Broughton Castle, near Banbury, is the most recent additien to the list of historical propertied.) be let. The building was prominently associated with the stirring times of Charles I. and Cromwell.l Mr. Justice Hawkins on Monday sentenced Pocket, the Strom! Green money-lender, to six months' imprisonment, and also fined him £sot)ler obtaining money, in the shape of inquiry fees. under false pretencea. Tux