The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1877-03-09 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

STRANGE LOSS OF A CHILD. a A woman named Fitzgibbon, living in Heathpool street, Paddington, applied to Mr. Mansfield, at the Marylebone Police Court, London, on Saturday. She , stated that as her husband was out of work she had decided to token wet nurse's place. She went to the hospital last Wednesday week, anti as she was leaving she was accosted by a lady/ike person, who said that she required a wet nurse, and that, from the applicant's appearance, she would probably suit. They . went by train to the Gloueester rood Station. Whilst , waiting at the station the ohild of the applicant oom. 4 winced to cry, on which she was .11ml to go to a t public.house to have something to drink. They went, . and, as the child continued to cry, the applicant PHI , asked by the woman to let her mind it, and the coin. plainant then gave It to her. She (applicant) felt very t I miserable, and commenced to cry. Whilst she bad her handkerchief to her eyes the woman decamped, taking with her the child, and nothing oould be seen of it, although inquiries were made of persons who were outside the public-hones—Mr. Mansfield said il was a strange affair, but he could not assist her.  The Clyde shipwrights are about to agitate for en in. crease of wages. _ _ _  A large " basin" of cream coal has been found under the Glouceaterahlre  The grand jury of the King's county have awarded to Mrs. Margaret N'eehan, widow of the victim of an agrarian murder, a sum of £5OO as compensation under the Peace Preservation Act. is stated that the recall of the Mediterranean squadron to Malta le only preparatory to a reduction of it. strength. Two or three of the ironolads will , be withdrawn. •  A Jersey jury have sequltted Fleury Lemasson, a French farm labourer, who war charged with the warder of hie wife, five out of the 24 jurymen having found him not guilty. '  • It fs telegraphed that the Czar has issued a ukase renewing an old decree forbidding landowners to rewive In their house SS guests more than fine person. eta time. . .  w. -Mr. Tnumas Starkie Shuttleworth, Clerk to the Crown for the county of Lancaster, died on Saturday at Preston. He had met completed hie 77th year, and had held the office mentioned nearly fifty years. A coroner's jury at Leeds, on Monday, returned verdict of wilful murder in the recent case of chit poisoning. In the cue of the mother, who commit suicide after I nurdering the infant, the jury found • verdict of temporary insanity. _ . . .  In consequence of the murder of the Dutch viceconsul and other inhabitants, arid the disturbed state of affairs at Cartagena, it is announced that one of hot Majesty's ships of the West India squadron has beer sent to that place for the protection of British interests should oCattliCon arise. The Portsmouth Times chronicles the fact that on the return of the Serapis to that port &Bet. her WI cruise, her engines and boilers were in such a very credhable condition that there were not any defects to be made good, notwithstanding the vessel had run over 12,000 miles. • A telegram has been received in Paris announcing that the Marquis de Conophgne, the African explorer, . who recently wrote a book on the interior of Africa. ' bas been killed in a duel at Cairo. Igo information has come to hand concerning the nauluse which led be the duel. The Marquiv wso only thirty year. of age. The death is announced at Alriborough of Mr. Jame* Murray Dale, a son of the late Dean of Rochester. Mr. Dale was a great suthorhy on eselesiasticel law, and was at one time solicitor to the Church Anodetion, but when he considreed the law had been ewertatted he declined any furlher connection with that body. He wee a brother of Mr. Pelham Dale, of St. Vedast's.