The Northern Guardian. — 1897-11-19 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

ITEMS OF INTEREST.  General Weyler has arrived at Coranna Earthquake shocks have occurred this week ia  Saxony. H. Lamb, Jeweller, The Illuminated Clock, Lynn Street. Telephone, 4,l6l.—Advt. The wheat trade is quiet, and at Manchester lost 63 on the week. The Nice bakers sre on strike, and bread is going up in price. Parsons Pasha starts from Cairo for Kassala on the 23rd inst. Sir Frank Las-elles, British Ambassador at Bk•rlin, arrived in London yesterday on leave of absence. Every man must tell his mate, that Humphries' Hats I are up-to-date. Address well known-92, Lynn Street. ! —Advt. It is reported from Constantinople that the Peace Treaty negotiations are proceeding satisfactorily. Five persons were killed and several others injured in a railway collision at Gross Bor (Bohemia) yesterday. J. Harrison, watchmaker and jeweller, watches, clock., jewellery, and electro plate. Repairs in all branches of the trade.—Advt. Captain Thornton, R.A., Adjutant of the Bermuda Militia, committed suicide yesterday by shooting himself. Mr John Morley arrived at Chester last evening and proceeded to Hawarden Castle on a visit to Mr and Mrs Gladstone. Signor Verdi has suffered greatly from the shock of his wife's death, and is said to be in a very enfeebled condition. Half-e -Dozen best Nickel Tea Spoons given to the Furchasea of a Wedding Ring at H. Lamb's. The Illuminated Clock, Lynn Street. National Telephone, No. 4,l6l.—Advt. A Simla telegram states that Sir Salter Pyne rill leave Cabul for India on Saturday, and will travel via Candah ir and Outman. The Home Secretary attended at Windsor Castle yesterday and introduced to Her Majesty the new Bishops of Wakefield and Bristol. Dr Salt, Dentist, has now made arrangements for daily attendance, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the usual address, 4, Scarborough Street, West liartlepool.—Advt. The death is announced of Mr S. S. Hodgson, clerk to the Sunderland Board of Guardians, wellkw wn as an authority on the working of the Poor Laws. Further information as to the massacre of a French force by Samory's troops states that a hundred men were killed, and their rifles, stores, etc., seized. The boot and shoo trade of West Hartlepool have inanimously agreed to an earlier closing arrangement. Notices are posted in all the windows throughout the town.—Advt. The Rev. T. F. Nicholas, 8.A., last night lectured to the members of the Tyneside Geogsapineal Society on "Alaska and the Klondyke Goldfields." It is believed in some quarters at Shanghai that tho action of the Germans in Kiaochou Bay is the prelude to a general division of Chinese territory by European Powers. R. lamb, Jeweller, The Illuminated Clock, Lynn Street. Telephone, 4.l6l.—Advt. Mr Thomas Robinson Farrow, a well-known inhabitant of Chester-le-Street, died there on Wed- , nesday. In his younger days Mr Farrow was an esthusiastdc cricketer. Yesterday the directors of the Great Western Railway Company decided to reduce the hours of duty of telegraph clerks at a number of larger stations on the company's system. Prince and Princess Charles; of Denmark left Ctpenha,,eten at nine o'clock yesterday morning for ndon, travelling via Korsor. Their Royal High- ' nrsEes will proceed to Marlborough House. W. Scott Stormouth who was recently sentenced ' to death at the Old Bailey in connection wtih the death of a lady at a Bloomsbury hotel, has had his sentence commuted to ten years' penal servitude.  The Free Labour Protection Association, at ite  meeting yesterday, expressed gratification at the work of its detectives in counteracting the operahuts of the union pickets in London and the provinces. U. Lamb's Aqua-Crystal Spectacles are the best. Try them, 34 6d per pair. The Illuminated Clock. Lynn Street. National Telephone, No. 4,l6l.—Advt. The difficulty between Great Britain and Turkey arising out of the action of the Turkish authorities at Urfa, in preventing a British subject from travelling to Kharput, has been satisfactorily settled' Sir William Ingram, Bart., has made rapid improvement during the past 24 hours, and no longer suffers from insomnia. He obtains good and natural sleep, and there is every indication that , thia improvement will continue. Yesterday a deputation of educationists approached Sir John Gorst at Birmingham, and rrged the extension of the period during which Children should be compelled to attend school. Sir John gave a_sympathetic reply. The marriage took place at St. Gabriel's Church, Warwick Square, Pimlico, yesterday afternoon, of Major-General Sir Frederick Carrington with Miss Susan Margaret Elwes, only daughter of Mr Henry J. Elwes, of Colsborne Park, Cheltenham. Buy your spectacles at the practical Optician's, from ls per pair, and suited to the sight by the Optometer. neSt Brazilian Pebbles at 7s 6d per pair, at H. e, The Illuminated Clock, Lynn Street, 'Neat Hartlepool. National Telephone, No. 4,161. Advt. Lord Salisbury has issued summonses for a frrther Cabinet Council, and it is understood that Ministers will meet at the Foreign Office at halfPast twelve on Saturday. Me stings of the Cabinet are now :ikely to be frequent for a time, as is usual towards the clew of the year.