Widnes Examiner. — 1891-01-24 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

WYCLIFFE CONGREGATIONAL GIFURCH, WARRINGTON. ANNUAL TEA MEETING.  The annual tea meeting in connection with Wycliffe Church was held in Wycliffe Hall, on Thursday evening. The tea was one of the most successful held at Wycliffe, there being present about 500 persons. The tables were presided over by the following ladies :—Mrs. Yonge, Mrs. Armitage, Mrs. A. Lee, Mx. W. Wallington, Mrs. Garland, Mrs. Podmore, Mrs. Beswick, Mrs. G. Wallington, Mrs. Hawthorn, Mrs. Barker, Mrs. Lev,ge, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Corney, Mrs. Wylie, Mrs Birch, Mrs. Parry, Mrs. F. Womersley and Mrs. Rathbone ; Misses Cargill, Beswick, Weir, Blease and Farrer. The Committee which made the arrangements for the tea and subsequent gathering was composed of the following ;—Messrs. Podmore. Beswick, Wylie, Haynes, G. Wallington, T. Hawthorn, Mrs. Wylie, ' and Miss Legge. • After tea a crowded meeting was held, presided over by the Rev. John Yonge. There were also present—the Rev. E. Moore, Rev. J. Davies, and the following deacons :—Messrs. Z. Armitage, J.P., J. S. Garland, W. Beswick, .G. Wallington; R. Roberts, Podmore, Hawthorn, and Leo. The Ciimnics.sr, in a • few opening remarks, expressed the pleasure they felt at seeing so large a gathering of people in Wycliffe Hall that night. .They had had tea parties there in the past, but he did not rememner ever to have seen so large a meeting as they had with them that night. He was afraid that their friends who had . in hand the responsible and onerous duty of providing for the physical wants of their guests, had not in their possession at the fortunate moment a sufficient amount. of faith to enable them to foresee accurately how many friends would respond to the invitation to come to that meeting, and therefore he had just heard that some of their friends did not get altogether as much tea as they could possibly have enjoyed. They would, however, he trusted, forgive any little defect that they might have found in the commissiariat, and if they came again,and he hoped they would, he had no doubt that they should learn by experience, and have faith to believe that when they issued an invitation for their annual tea they would have a very large gathering to respond to it. (Hear, hear.) He was very glad indeed that they had had such a house-warming. He thought it might be taken as.a very outward and manifest sign that, whatever some of the croackers might have predicted,Wycliffe was not dead yet. (Hear, hear, and applause.) He was also verY glad to know,because lie had been speaking to some of them, that they had a number of old • Wycliffe people there that night who had not been. to see_ them of late. All he could say was that they'were glad to see them, and that they elionld be gladder still to see them on Sundays. (Hear, hear.) They should i he exceedingly pleased if some of their friends who, for various reasons, had not been with them lately, should find their way back to the old place. They would give them a hearty welcome, and he thought the friends might use their Sundays in a less profitable way than by attending the services in Wycliffe Church. (Applause.) He was sure they were very much indebted to their friends who had been given them some lantern illustrations. He was very glad they possessed so admirable a lantern. They had been using it of late in lantern lectures which were but the beginning of a series of such kind of things in the days to come. (Applause.) His own belief was that there was a future for lan ijiarlesLyddon was charged on remand at Faversham, on Thursday, with causing his stepbrother's death.— William Bedster said deceased looked very ill the night before his death, but did not appear to have been drinklug.—Mr. Mowell said he had decided not to call Mrs. Lyddon, and the prosecution closed.—Mr. Mercer said he should not oppose a committal, as it would serve no useful end in view of the verdict of the coroner's jury: Prisoner was committed for trial.  The Press Association says the cause of the death of the Duke of Bedford is now fully and completely established by the certificate of the registrar of deaths for the distriet of Belgravia. The Duke died on the 14th inst., but the death was not registeted'until the 19th inst, the certificate from Mr. J. Troutbeck, coroner for Westminster, stating that an inquest was held on the 15th January, and the cause of the death was a "Bullet wound in the heart. Verdict of suicide during temporary insanity during pneumonia."