The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1890-06-07 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE CEMETERY.  On Monday afternoon the Bishop of Chester (Dr. Ririe) consecrated the latest addition to the cemetery at Flaybrick Hill. This is a piece of land, rather lens than two acres in extent, near the junction between the Protestant and Roman Catholic sections, which formerly was nothing less than an eyesore. Now all this iB changed. The hoarding which formerly disfigured the place is removed and the boundary, the edge of the old quarry, is secured by means of a well-built wall with castellated parapet. The whole has been nicely sodded and • broad border left for plants and Sowers. The ceremony of consecration was timed to take place at 3.15. Shortly before this hour the choirs of St. James' and St. Bede's, with a contiogent from Bidston, arrived. Amongst the members of the Council present were his Worship the Mayor (Mr. C. T. Gostenhofer), Mr. W. J. Little (chairman of the Cemetery Committee), Messrs. Woodcock, Thompson, Goodwin, Heathcock, Dobie, T. Cook, Cowley, and Thorne (members of the Cemetery Committee), A. Gill (town clerk), Hayton, Dancalfe, F. Sanderson (registrar), the Yen. Archdeacon Barber, the Revs. Dr. Knox, G. C. Dicker. J. W. Milner, F. T. Stone:, J. F. Buckler, P. C. Robin, H. E. Nixon, C. Fenton, E. T. Charley, S. O'Connor Fenton, and others. A procession was formed in the central chapel, which marched to the new ground. First walked Mr. Sanderson, the cemetery registrar, then the members of the Council, heeded by the Mayor wearing his chain of office, next the choir boys, and last the clergy, the Bishop and his secretary bringing up the rear. Arrived at the upper half of the new plot, his Lordship's secretary read the petition in which the Corporation besought the Bishop to consecrate the new addition. The Bishop, in • set phrase, announced his willingness to respond to the petition, prayers followed, then the procession moved on again and "walked the boundaries," after which • halt was made on the lower half of the plot over the new public graves, and more prayers were said. The choir then sang an appropriate hymn, "Brief life is here our portion," there was • prayer by the Bishop, and the ceremony WIN completed. There was a fairly large number of the general public present to WWII'S' the consecration of the new ground. The accommodation provided for them, and the general arrangements made by the registrar of the cemetery, Mr. Sanderson, were complete and in every way satisfactory.  ATTINPIRD Buxom. YROX • WALLASNY FERRY Sra•xx.a.—On Sunday afternoon a woman named Elizabeth Kent, of no fixed abode, who was on the ferry steamer Sunflower, suddenly threw herself into the river. The Sunflower was at her berth at the George's Stags, whed the woman Kent, who was the worse for drink, scrambled to the opening in the bulwarks, jumped straight into the water and sank. A man named Ralph Littler, who belongs to Manchester, with great presence of mind picked up a long boat hook. Armed with this he waited for the woman to rise, and the moment he noticed her above water he caught bold of her dress, and having obtained a good grip, held the woman up. Meantime, the ladies on board shrieked, and Stage-officer Charles Vass, with several assistants, came running to the rescue. Other officials from the George's Stage came up, and the woman was dragged te the Landing-stage. After being attended to at the Receiving-house, she was taken into custody by Police-constable 1,199, and lodged at the main bridewell on a charge of attempting to commit suicide. A