The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1901-12-28 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

APRIL. I—Lecture at the North End Liberal elub, by Mr. A. W. Willmer. —Funeral of Mr. J. Walveorth. 2—Annual smoker of the North End Cycling Club. —Presentation to the Rev. James Peddie, B.A.  4—Presentation to Mr. W. 8. Davies. s—Re-opening of the Welsh Wesleyan Chapel, Claughton-road. —Tea aud concert in connection with Grange-road Primitive Methodist Church. —Organ recital at Mount Tabor Primitive Methodist Church. s—Death of the Rev. William Ruins. 7—Death of Mr. H. Hancock, Neston. B—Fifth annual Eisteddfod in connection with the Young Welshmen of Birkenhead, in the Queen'e Hall. 9—Annual social meeting in connection with the Workingmen's Bible Class. 10—Funeral of Mr. William Heaps. —Presentation to Mr. James M. Galloway by the members of Grange-road Presbyterian Churdh. 111—Concert at the Tranmere Conservative Club.  12—Funeral of Mr. T. Davies. 18—Old woman burned 'lv dropping a lamp. 14—Little girl knocked down and killed by an electric car near the New Ferry terminus.  15—Concert in the Tranmere Music Hall, In aid of the choir fund of St. Luke's Church. —Annual _concert in aid of St. Laurence's  Snioole. —Fire in Ivy-street. 18—Funeral of Mr. J. C. Macintosh. 17—Town Council meetings. £6,000 increase from tramways. —Death of Mr. William Quayle. —Funeral of Mr. R. S. Prowse. 18—Death of Mr. William A. Getley, jean 19—Primrose Ball at the Tranmere Music Rail.  20—Arrival of Sir Elliott Lees at Southampton. anual meeting of the Roylake and West Kirby Couna. Appointment of chairman and committees. —Fire in the boiler-house attached to the works of Messrs. Gamlin and Co., Ltd. 23—Fire at Wallasey Lairages. —Cattle drover knocked down and killed by a locomotive in the Great Western Railway yard. fli.-Reosption ip the Town Rail Jay the. Mayor and. Mayoress (Alderman ithati and - - „  22—An1  Mrs. Cook). —Annual meeting of the Wirral Guardians. Mr. Knowles re-elected °Warman.  25—Aneal meeting of Ellesmere Port  —Liberala. 26—The Ven. Archdeacon Barber at St. Mary's. —.Annual meeting of the Hoylake Conservative Association. 17—New Century Conference of the Lancashire Forward Movement in the Aweniation Hall. 48—Fire at Pert Sunlight. Extensive ibiniage to Meters. Lever Bros. soap works. 85—Meeting of the Birkenhead and Wirral. Women's Suffrage Society. ...Return of the first section of the lst V.B. Ches. Regt. from South Africa.  -., 27-.."  SO.—First appearance of Sir Elliott Lees in the Mouse of Commons since the ral Election. —Death of Mr. John Sharpies. —Social at Buskin Hall to welcome Mr. and Mn. C. A.. Beard,  I—anteresting wedding at Hemel!. Lynch— Coffey. 2--Death of Mrs. Joseph Hsult. —Funeral of the Res. F. G. Ambridge. —Concert by thallampcten Musical Society in St. 10.tberine's 3—Funeral of Mr. Henry Stewart. —Death of Mr. J. Milne. —Dinner to welcome the Heirwall Volunteers and Reservists on their return from the war.  4—Demonstration in honour of the New Ferry contingent of the Volimteera returned from South Africa. —Death of Mr. H. Parsonage of Whitby. ft.—Annual Church Parade of the Ist., C.R.E.V. 6—Funeral of Mrs. Joseph Hou —" In aid of our hospitals" meeting in. the. Town Hall. 7--Reception to the first service section of the let V.)3.C.R. in the Town Hall. —Rock Ferry youth seriously injured on board the Liverpool ship Scottish Lochs, lying in the East Bute Docks. Cardiff. 9—Dinner to Private Walter Sinn' in the Queen's Hall. —Bazaar at Palm Grove Wesleyan Chant 9—Opening of a bazaar at the Asooniation Hall, Grange-road in connection with St. Catherine's Church. _ .  --Supper to the New Ferry Volunteers at Bebi ngton. 10—Continuation of St. Catherine's bazaar. —Suicide in Corporation-road. 11—C1o8e of the bazaar in connection with St. Catherine's Churr-b. _ . .  . ----Tragedy in Birkenhead. Woman fatally wounded by a man at 92, Church-street. 12-Btate visit of the Mayor to Oxton-road Congregational Church. Hospital sermon by the Rev. Matthew Stanley. 13—Specis1 meeting of the Town Council to discuss opposition to the Dock Board Bill.  14—Fashionable wedding at Claughton. Maclver—Archer. —Sad suicide of an Oxton lady. 15—Arrival of Sir Elliott Lees, Bart., MY., in Birkenhead. Banquet to welcome him in the Town Hall. We'some meeting in the Engineers' Drill Shed, Priory-street. —Attempted suicide from a Woodside ferryboat. 16—Arrival of the first service section of the  let C.B.E.V. from South Africa. --Shocking fataNty at New Ferry. Bgremoat joiner fractures his /skull. 17—Drawing-room meeting of the Birkenhead division of the Soldiers and Sailors Families' Association. Appeal by Sir Elliott Lees. —Sir Elliott Lees visits local clubs. 18—Visit of Sir Elliott and Lady Lees to the Orton Conservative Club. 19—Shocking suicide of a gentleman at a home in Orion. —Anniversary services at Tranmere Wesleyan Chapel. 20—Two boys brought up at the Borough Police Court for breaking into a schoolhouse. —Public meeting in the Mayer Hall, Babington, to consider the question of subscribing to the Queen 'Victoria memorial. 21—Annual meeting of the Wirral Conservative Association at the Conservative offices. —The Rev. Mark Guy Pearse at Brunswick Wesleyan Church. 22—Annua1 meeting of the executive committee of the Wirral Liberal Associa-, - tion. —Welcome to Sapper W. Atkinson at Lowestreet Mission. 23—Supper at lieswall in honour of the Volunteers returned from the war. —Death of Mr. H. E. Williams. —Mayoral dinner to the let C.R.E.V. at West Kirby. 24—Supper and concert in honour of the local members of the Special Service Corps of the Greys. 25—Child drowned in a bucket of water. —Fire on Bideton —Drunken man falls through a window 26—Address by the Rev. S. Gamble-Walker at Hamilton-sqxfare P.S.A. 27—Annual Fair at Higher Bebington. —Annual sports at Neston and District Cricket Club. 28—Fire on the tugboat Weathercock, lying at the Victoria Wharf. 29—Inquest on the body of Richard Dowuham, who met with his death while working in Clover's yard. —Wedding at Trinity Church. Saunders— Forrest. 30 The Hon. T. A. Brassey elected to the presidency of the Birkenhead Liberal Association. —Paper on the Street-trading Question by Mr. Robert T. Jones at the Ano.nal Conference of School Boc-xl Clerks in Edinburgh. 31—Opening of a new 014th-house for the Mersey Yacht Club. .