The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1913-08-30 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  , The official irsaiway;‘traffio raurne of 67 of the princital.undertakings of the trnii•tia Kingdoin,,ealmblished by the "Tramway and Itaiiiiray Woci4r for the week ended Aliguailr,46, show that the re-' ceipts amountekl t& £248,668, or £13,835 more than for the corresponding week last year, while the mileage was'2,7l2, or 52 gore than for the-corresponding week. TheAciipta were at the rate of 1.91 138. lfid. pee•track mile', anincrease of a Bs. .2. per mile aweampared with last.year. -4. i . • • .  the Cunarct C,Ompan,y lave decided that in future the Lusitanis and Maure, tania will not embark passengers at Queenstown, and mails will only be taken on board there when the weather is favoarable.• The 'company intend that the Canadian boats from London and Southampton shall call at Queenstown after October 2nd.  The trial of Albert Wade French, a Glasgow trade union.official, on a charge of Murdering a asu matnected with a rival union by IshoOla.,"ng him, was concluded at Glasgow on Saturday, the accused being fonnCnot guilty and diecharged.  * • • •  A sad revolver accident, resulting in the death of Major George Buchanan, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, is reported from West, Hampstead. It is stated that whilst the Major was showing a revolver to a young gentleman friend in his' flat on Thursday night'the weapon, which .was, thciught to be unloaded, went off, and the bullet entered the Major's abdomen. Major Buchanan was conveyed to hospital, where he died late on loriday night.  • •  Mr. Will Crooks, M.P., Mr. A. W. Black, M.P. and Mr. Edgar Jones, M.P., three of the delegates from the United Kingdom Branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association, have now decided to submit -to vaccination.- It was at first thought they would be unable to land in Australis owing to the regulations enforced since the outbreak of smallpox at Sydney. The visitors will now all land at Sydney as originally intended. • • •  Lord Northbourne having declared his -intention to roast an ox at Retteshanger Park. near Sandwich, on the day that Mr. Lloyd George goes out of office, a wellknown Radical farmer of the district has presented a. fat lamb to the County Hospital at Canterbury 'to commemorate the fact that Mr. Lloyd George has succeeded in raising such large sums of money without touching the pockets of the working classes." r * a a •  At three O'clock on Sunday morning George Henry Southall, 44, an engineer, of 'Dudley, was killect.by falling 'from a train at Acton Bridge, near Crewe. He was one Of a party of excursionists returning from Blackpool. The other passengers in the carriage, who included his wife, had been asleep, and %woke to find Southall missing and the carriage door OP°l2- • • • I•  The death occurred suddenly at Buxton, on Tneeday,.of Mr. Michael Maybriok, the well-known oompoler. whose pen-nerne was "Stephen Adams.' He did not oorne dawn to breakfast on- Tuesday morniitg. and an inquiry led to his.being found dead in bed. He had been at Buxton three weeks for his health, and the supposed cause of death is heart failure. On Monday night Mr. Maybrick was apparently ' in the best of health, and chatted. and joked with friends. Mr. Maybrick was born in Liverpool in 1844, being thus sixtynine years of age. He was a brother of the late Mr. James Maybrick, and after the trial of litrlloybildklitrbeo*Olo"littor,dian of e ekaldxe of iluktriatte.. _  - - A ifiitailaike display of en =leaps followed the carrying of a universal peace resolution at the International Co-operative Congress in Glasgow, on Tuesday, The resolution, moved by Mr. Goedhardt, a *Hague delegate, declared that no-operation was- the most valuable guarantee for the preservation of peace. • gp • • • • A Blue )3ook on the trade of the Union of South Africa and of Rhodesia makes reference to the increased proportion of blacks to whites. The material progress of the Union shows that a splendid recovery has taken place from the ravages caused by the Boer war, and that the total export and import trade is the greatest yet recorded.  0 • • •  The eldest French citizen, M. Schamel Roy, of Versailles, entered upon h;s 107th year on Tuesday. He is the son of a grenadier of Napoleon's Guard, and remembers having seen the-Emperor one day at Versailles.  • • • •  Nine men were killed and thirteen badly injured by a boiler explosion in the Leeds Steelworks, Hunslet, on Tuesday night. • 6 • •  The fall of a ten-year-old schoolboy from a Carnforth-to-Ltverphol express was in vestigated at the inquest on Tuesday at Garatang..lt was stated that the compartment contained sixteen persons, and ten witnesses declared the canamunication cord _ . .  was pulled repeatedly, but the train did not stop for twelve miles till it reached Preston. Railway officials declared the cord was in order, but the Coroner said that if that was, so, what was its .use as a protection to the public?  ie • • • A doctor attributpd his failure in Lou_ .  • don, among otheF things, to theloss Of the goodwill of his priotiCe due mainly to the operation of the Insurance Act, he having declined to go on the panel. Prior to the Act coming in he was making between '  .11800 and .2900 a year.. For the raat three years it had amounted to about £1,050 altogether, and of that sum only .2150 had been received since July, 1912.  iShieelthid  At an ineluest held on Wednesday on Robert Beddell, aged 10, the won of a farmer, near Exeter, whose body was found on a railway level crossing, a verdict of "Suicide while of uneoand mind" was returned. A letter written by the lad and 'left 'on the railway. statistl—"l am going to end my life by letting a train run over me. I shill have no more school-again. I 'did-not want to kill myself before Christmu, .4310 d tells me I must do, and I feel like it;• good-bye to the world:" . • • st• • •  . . X.r.. T. Powell. • surNeyor and sanitary isspeetor to the Wem Urlpin Council, has hiid fornarded to him frozh the War Office the medal" for the Zulu campaign of 1879, in whir.h he served as a =Saber of the King's Dragoon Guards. The medal cr. rise with it a pension +of 7s. a week after the age orea ••• • •  The steamer which Was sent hy the New Zeeland Government for thetrelief of. mem. bors of Dr. Mawson's.Australian Antarctic expedition on Macquarie Island has re. earned.. and rei)orts that the •-setentists have .been short of 'provisions.. asel•.shioe March they had been,. living on the hearts end tongues ,of sea elephants and" on fish. The man ldoked well fed, brit were ob:eionely weako and. ths:suppbes.arrived. by uo means too soon. ./ • . • THE UPrTO-Dalig • for ...Aga.. her pockuage and•Peole7.,!re7g •