The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1890-05-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

RECEIPTS.  Return of traffic for week ending May 17th, 1893:1890. 1889. Mks open 1,578 .. 1,978 Incr. Met Passengers, go.. £56,894 .. 453,7155 ••• Merchandise and  cattle Minerals 50,790 .. 47,123 .. 3,667.. Deck dues, to.  Receipts for week.. 137,752 128,214 .. 9,538..  Total t0i1me.E2,559.03/414..2.363,155.. 195,848..  . a female child appairently near Lundondsay oulluroday. second found within three day& *The Baptist Chapel at East Hill, We ' took fire on Thursday, and they -e entiridy gutted. -The roof adjoining wersilausged. Canon Wilberforoe declared at a temperance meeting at Southampton on Tuesday night that he would never attend another Church of England temperance meeting unless that Society purged Itself of the recent Lasts as to sompematian. A fatal trap accident haa oecurred rear Gem-shall Railway Station. Wm. Comber, a farmer, aged 70, was driving his wife to the station, when on turning a corner the wheel skidded and the vehicle was overturned. Comber was killed on the spot, and his wife died soon afterwards. A telegram from Berlin says : General Caprivi, it is stated, intends imposing a tax upon all persons who from physical disabilities are ineligible to serve as soldiers in the German army. A similar tax will be imposed upon all Germans livlug in foreign countries. Various rumours are in circulation on Thursday in the vicinity of Edinburgh regarding the disspof a military officer and the simultaneous ce of the daughter of another military aka. It is suspected that there has been an elo_ pement. The officer is about sixty and married, while the girl is only eighteen: Mr Stanley' marriage to Mies Tennant will take place in Westminster Abbey in the laut week lin June or the first week in July. Miss Tessisat's Ilittle nieces, Misses Myers, and nephews will attend as bridesmaids and pages. f& Stanley will settle in Richmond-terrace. If Mr Stanley makes further excursions into Africa Miss Tennant will accompany him. An interesting ceremony took place at the Guildhall on Thursday when the honorary freedom and liberty of the Blacksmiths' Company was presented to Sir John Fowler, Sir Benjamin Baker, and Sir William Arrol, the engineers of the Forth Bridge. This is the first time since 1825 that the honorary freedom of the Blacksmiths' Company has been presented to anyone. At Warrington onWednesday a glees cutter named Watson, while bathing in a deep pit, was seen to be sinking. Thomas Forster' a beerhouse-keeper, jumped in to save him, but both were drowned. John Forster, brother of the latter, also jumped in to try to give assistance, and barely escaped drowning, being rescued in an exhausted condition. The suicide of a young German clerk in London, against whom legal proceedings for embezzlement had been commenced, has had a sad sequeL His fiancee, the daughter of a woollen merchant, in Potsdamestrat, Berlin was so distracted by the dreadful news from Berlin, that she opened an artery and allowed herself to biped to death,  lellere favour. Deana ant sesis )14041. um*. tart not tett**. • ' LIVID/WOOL oons. whew •Cliiet. Plebrieux,forleel imeelry ; Vrig to asollairia mu/Wry, Meat* Orit am meal I Er, but steady. Maize, prime mixed - 5154 ,35 • Odour. ,W; Cliaqttaatizta. 4/7 Olughatlin, 5)6. &pril beans, skten4mace.