The Northern Guardian. — 1893-06-13 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

NEW SYSTEM OF TREATMENT FOR DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR WITHOUT OPERATION.—MY L Mitchell, Oculist and Aurist, of Leeds, announces special visits to West Hartlepool (Stati, n Commercial Hotel), Tuesday, June 13; Durham (Three Tuns Hotel), Saturday, June 17; Stockton (Black Lion Hotel), Wednesday, June 14 (hours 11 to 4), where he may be consulted on all cases of defective sight or hearing. Attifieial human eyes adapted where the sight has been destroyed without pain or operation. Spectacles, eye preservers, to suit all sights. References to local patients. Letters to be addressed to 24, Zetland Place, Roundhay Road, Leeds. —Advt. ,Prince Alfred of Edinburgh is now quite out of danger, and his progress towards recovery is most satisfactory.  The Prince of Wales's yacht Britannia won the principal race at Dover yesterday. The Valkyrie broke down, and the Cattuna was second.  The firm of Messrs Burrell and Sons, Glasgow, have given out orders for eight steamers, the largest from one firm for several years. One vessel will be built on the Tyne. Yesterday, the Mayor of Middlesbrough (Councillor C. L. Bell) laid the foundation-stone of the chancel of the recently-elected St. Baruabas Church at Linthorpe, Middlesbrough. On the recommendation of the Earl of Durham, as lord-lieutenant of the county, Colonel Thomas Reed, of Sunderland, has been placed on the Commission of the Peace for the county. A man named John Brown, aged 47, who was summoned to Portsmouth Police Court on a charge of assaulting his wife, committed suicide yesterday by hanging himself in his coafhouse.  ' The Russian Government has taken steps to renew its demand for the payment of amount due from Bulgaria on account of the cost of the Russian occupation of the Principality in 1878-79.  _ Edith Ibbetson, aged 27 years, daughter of Thos. Ibbetson, drayman, West Cowick, was yesterday found drowned in Cowick brickyard, near Goole. She is supposed to have committed suicide.  The Most Rev. Christopher Augustine Reynolds, D.D., Roman Catholic Bishop of Adelaide since 1873, and Archbishop since 1877, died yesterday after a long illness. He was 59 years of age. • • _ _  A report, which is believed to be well-founded, is current that Lord Herschell's Indian Currency Commission have recommended the closing of the Indian mints to the coinage of silver on private account.  Messrs Bolckow, Vaughan, & Co. yesterday commenced to cut a splendid crop of seed hay, growing in a large field close to the Eaton Grange Station. This is said to be the earliest hay harvest on record in the Eaton district.  At the York Police Court yesterday, Tom Cundall, ostler, was charged with having wilfully I set fire to the stables of the Lion and Lamb Inn. Blossom Street, on Saturday night, and was remanded, bail being accepted. Mr William Geddes, chemist, Brampton, Cumberland, died suddenly yesterday morning. He was present on Sunday night in the Congregational Church. Death is attributed to paralysis. He was a well-known tradesman, and took great interest in public affairs.  ' The Secretary of State for India has appointed Mr Edward Ray an Cave Brown to be AccountantGeneral at the India Office in euccession to Mr Thomas William Keith, who has retired, and Mr Arthur Guißuin Scott to be Deputy-AccountantGeneral in place of Mr Cave Brown, promoted. A young carter named Ramsden, of Astley Bridge, was running out of a side street to catch a passing tram-car in Bolton last night, when he stumbled on the metals and fell in the path of another car. The vehicle passed over the unfortunate man's head, crushing it into a shapeless mass and killing him instantly. The usual monthly meeting of the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom was held in the girls' schoolroom, Musgrave Street, West Hartlepool, on Sunday, when a paper entitled "Obstacles to England's Conversion," by Rev. P. Fletcher, was read. The proceedings were presided over by Mr A. Wilson. There was a moderate attendance. At the Rochdale Police Court yesterday, James Joseph Egan, mechanic, late of Bowers Street, Rochdale, was charged with feloniously marrying, on the 25th of April, Cecelia Ann Thorn, widow, of Bowers Street, his former wife, whom he married on the 25th of July, 1870, at Bradford, being still He was committed for trial.  The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and Princess Leiningen, drove yesterday from Balmoral to Braemar, in an open carriage, and theme to Mar Lodge. Her Majesty will leave Balmoral to-day week, arriving early on the Wednesday morning at Windsor Castle. The Court will move to Osborne about July 10. An inquest was held yesterday at the Victoria Hotel, Eccicshill—before Mr T. Taylor, coroner— touching the death of Dr. George Newstead, aged 76, of Bank House, Eccleshill, who died on Saturday whilst exercising a two-year-old pony. The jury returned a verdict that death was due to syncope, caused by excitement and over-exertion. Detective-Inspector Melville has been appointed to succeed Mr Littlechild, who has retired on a pension, as Chief Inspector in the Special Department at New Scotland Yard. _lnspector Melville has had many years' experience in the department, and long acted as Mr Littlechild's lieutenant. He has had much Continental experience in detective work, and enjoys the additional advantage of being an expert linguist. Tins