The Warwickshire Herald. — 1887-09-08 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE E.Shaw, Sav ill, and Albion Company's steamer "Tainui," arrived at Plymouth on Saturday morning from New Zealand, having on board 30,702 carcatr:s of mutton. _  TIIE annual report of the Police Committee of the Tweed Commissioners states that during the past year 11.521 diseased salmon grilse and trout have been taken out of the river and tribntaries, making for the past eight years a total of 56,823. DURING the past year the missionaries of the Rdchester Diocesan Society have paid more than 1,000 visits to police-courts and calls. had interviews with 8,000 accused persons, visitt.d 6,000 houses, referred 374 eases to the clergy, dealt them. selves with 224 special ones, including 27 attempted suicides, induced 12 fallen women to enter "homes of Hope," and taken 560 promises of total abstinence.  THE War Department has announcel its intcnlion of constructing a new railway connecting the whole line of forts between the Medway valley, which are now in course of formation for the protection of the garrhon and the dockyard against attack on the land side.  LORD PORTARLINGTON, in a letter to the Freeinan's Journal, respecting Archbishop Walsh's proposal fur a conference, says, " I heartily reciprocate the kindly intentions of His Grace's proposal. The Archbishop has rightly grasped the situation. Landlords and tenants are partners in the same firm, and should it be thought best, for the interest of the nation at large, that such partnership should be dissolved, then it should be for both partici to consider together how such termination to their partnership can ha best carried out to their mutual advantage." He thinks, however, that the conference should be deferred till after the publication of the Government Land Purchase scheme.  J. T. HAYDEN, Town Councillor of Mullingar and publisher of the lrextmeath E.eajniiu r, has been served with two summowes under the Crimes Act to appear at the Glasson Petty Sessions on Wednesday next, charged with obstructing constitbles, at the recent eviction proceedings at Tang. IT is understood that a Cotumission will be appointed in the coming winter for delimitating the frontier between Burmah and China.  Ox Saturday last, Thomas White, a man aged about 35 years, committed suicide in Chelmsford Gaol whilst on a remand for felony. Tim English Home Rule Union intend to send representatives to several meetings which are to be held in Ireland in September. A NATIONALIST meeting was held on Sunday at Middletown, ten miles fr.ma Armagh, to protest against the proclamation of the National League. Ox Saturday the traffic on the new line to the Devil's Dyke, at Brighton, was so great that the issue of tickets had temporarily to be suspended. TILE fall of rain in Belfast and the North of Ireland on Saturday was heavier than for many years pat. The rain was accompanied by thunder anti lightning. A CO3IIIISSION for Fettling the boundaries of the territories of Portugal and Zanzibar wi 1 meet at. Lisbon shortly, with the concurrenca of England and Germany. IT appears that the salmon fi,hing season on the upper reaches of the Ouse has been the least successful of many years. The Yorkshire trout streams have also atfordett but poor sport. Mit. J. 1). Dovsi, of Ryde, wit, on the occasion of the tir.st vacancy in the representation of the Isle of Wight. contest the island in favour of Mr. Gladstone's policy in general. and in Ireland in particular. '1 HE statement recently made by a London morning paper that the proposed mediation of England between Italy and Abyssinia had failed, is (says Reuter) incorrect, inasmuch as negotiations on the subject are still proceeding. FOR brutally assaulting Thomas Williams, a Merthyr Tydvil drayman, at Trcberris, because he would not •• stand a quart," George Blatehford was, on Saturday, fined V and costs, or in default one month's imprisonment. A YOUNG man named (Wilbert arrived at Booloome, at three on Sunday afternoon, having covered the distance from Paris, which is 156 miles, on foot, in 39 consecutive hours, thereby winning a wager of A2o‘l.  A sum of £B6 12a. Ca has been handed in to the Paddington-green Children's Hospital. being the result of a church parade by Trades, Temperancs, and Friendly societies to Sr. Saviour's Church, Maids-vale, on Sunday, June 12. THE Belgian Government has offered a reward of 2,500 f. for the recovery of a psrc2l which was addressed from Cologne to Catficid, and has been stolen. It contained 14 old and 101 new 500 f. obligations of the South Austrian Railway and other shares.  A BICYCLE race for a trophy which cries with it the twenty miles championship, was decided at the North Shields Ground on Saturday, IL G. Wood succeeding in beating R. Ho sell (the bolder) by a few inches. The last mile was ridden in 2 rain. 44 1-5 sec., the full time being 1 h. 4 min. 57