Blandford Weekly News. — 1889-03-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SINGULAR CLUB ACTION.  In the Chancery Division on Friday, before Mr. Justice Kay. Mr. Rigby, Q.C., appeared on behalf of Lieutenant Charles Seaton, of the Royal Militia, whc applied to restrain the committee of the Junior Army and Navy Club from expelling him from the club. The learned counsel explained that the club was founded in 18611, and at that time officers holding commisaions in the Militia were eligible for mem. bership, as well as gentlemen in the army and navy. The rules contained the usual rule giving the coin nattee power to expel a member for conduct injurious to the interests of the club. In July the Haled published a statement to the effect that Mr. Seaton, one of the shareholders in the company which owned the Field Club in Park-place, had rduted the upper part of • house in Jermyn.street, in one of the rooms of which members of the Field and their friends were permitted to play baccarat. This paragraph came to the knowledge of the committee of the Junior Army and Navy Club, and the (secretary wrote to plaintiff asking for an explanation. He at lance denied the truth of the charge, and his solicitors obtained the insertion in the Hawk of a partial retraction of the original statements. After correspondence Mr. Seaton issued a writ for libel against the Hawk, and about a month later the committee of the Junior Army and Navy Club called upon him to resign. This he refused to do, and he now applied to the Court to restrain the committee from expelling him.— His Lordship, without calling on the defence, declined to interfere with the resolution passed by the club committee, holding that they had acted within the powers conferred on them by the rulea—The :notion was accordingly dismissed.  Lord Randolph Churchill has backed Sir Joseph Pease's Bill abolishing the coal dues in London. The proprietors of the Times have applied to the Scotch Court of Session for a certified copy of the proceedings in Mr. Parnell's action, in order to lodge in the Court in Dublin, in support of their contention that Mr. Parnell's action there should not be allowed to go on, seeing that an action, referring to the same libels, is pending in the Scottish Court. An inquest has been held at Alpraham, Cheshire, on the body of William Williams, a shoemaker, who committed suicide by hanging himself. Deceased married a widow with 16 children, and, having separated from her, became • hopeless drunkard. In summing up the coroner said if there was one thing more than another which proved his insanity it was marrying a woman who was the mother of 16 children. A verdict of temporary insanity was recorded.  The Emperor of Russia has opened the first Russian Fishery Exhibition at St. Petersburg. A Bill lies passed the Nevada Assembly prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors to women.  The Good Design, the last of the six missing Scarborough 6.114 smacks, has returned to port with her crew all well.  Frederick Vecchrene, an Italian blacksmith at Chicago, seeing • man named Peter Rooney climbing through his shop-window, shot him dead. One day lately the new American President received 44 letters, each informing him that a boy-baby had I been named " Reniamin Harrison."