The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-09-29 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

TEE CLEVELAND LEON TRADE.  THE DEFALCATIONS OF THE EXTREASURER OF HULL.  I SUICIDE OF THII ASSISTANT TREASURER. A chocking treigedy took place on Tueeday et Hull ..one result of the recent disoeveries made respecting the defalcations by Mr. Bolton, the er.town beuurer. Connected with Mr. Bolton lath. tranesetton of the financial buslnese of the tenon, the accountant, Mr. W. Brooke, who has been in the service of the Coro°. ration for about twenty.five yews. Since the Mr eovery above referred to, and the confession of ' Mr. Bolton that he had senteseled .ElO,OOO of I the town's money, an account of which wee pub', licked a ehort time sinew the Amalgamation ' Committee have been inveetigsting the ammo* with a view of escertedning the amount that had been emi busted, and Mr. Brooke has been undergoing an en, timination before this committee for two or three days. He denied all knowledge of the defalcations. I though he had virtual charge of the office for the but nine years, the treaeurer being old and infirm, sod not I able to attend to the duibu sheep, personally. On Tuesday, lut year's auditors appeared before the committee, end one of them renewed to we Mr. Brooke. A manage was tent that he wu temporarily absent in another part of the Town Hall. where the Inve•tigstion two taking piece, but be would return ion minute. The committee waited about an hour, and am he did Oct appear, Neroh was etude for him, but he could not be found. The committee had ordered that he ohould be watched, but it appeared that he had escaped from the hall, MA intelltgenee was received that he had 'Oese home and Mown his brains out. He was about forty pan of age, and leaves s widow and nine children. He we. captain in the Hull Artillery nine' tier Corp., and wee also an active Freemason, and highly respected. Tbe defsleations are said to be about .f I 1.000. and the affair is esushig the utmost senestion in the town.  The reeervoir recently *mistreated by the Weardale and Sheldon Waierworke Company, near Colleen, buret on Monday, fkoding the surrounding country. No live. mere last.  A gunpowder ezploslon took place on Tueeday the Dudley Colliery Company'. pits, through firing cartridges with a naked light. Several men were dangerously burnt. I never complained of my condition but once," maid all old man, "..hot. my feet were bare and I had no money to buy oboe.; but I mutt. man without feet, aug I became siontented."  - _ A man who eon .it with hit feet in hot water, sad yard of flannel around bit thrceit, and not feel the sweet influence of spring, is dead to the subtle tending, erhieh link humanity to nature. •  - • Among the deacons ordained on Sunday lest by the Whop of Woreewer were two who had formerly been Diseentlng minieters, namely. Mr. Kentleh Bache, for amoral years minister of the Unitarian chapel, More tonhampresd, Devon, and Mr. J. Arthur Wentworth Twiggins, formerly • Moral!. minister. THE Corer movemeat has been set on foA to induce the Church Congtem to meet at Croydon neat year. The suggeetion has the hearty meant of the Arehbithop of Canterbury, and the members of the Lay and Cleetcal Association have decided that, if certain prelimiaary conditions are complied with, Sri invitation ehad be pent. A. Fut