Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1894-06-09 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

SENSATIONAL STATEMENT. On Wednesday afternoon Sir John Harwood, vice-chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal, made • sensational statement to the City Council as to the present and prospective position of the Ship Canal. After going into a calculation which showed a deficiency of £146,•1i2 on the 31st of December last, Sir John said he had pointed out to the Consultative Committee some time since the position they would be in, and said that finless some action of a very drastic nature was taken the Corporation would in 1896 or 1097 have to find money for interest on the debentures. He stated then that this would necessitate a rate of Is. fid. in the L. This was ridiculed at the time but it turned out nearly correct, for the interest on five millions and sinking food, which commences in  1e97, amounts to Is77d. in the E, in addition to which there would probably be other matters requiring serious consideration. Then again there were numerous and onerous litigations entered into by the Ship Canal Company to which their attention had never been called, and he mid that fulfilment of them obligations would very likely drain the resources even of the Manchester Corporation. No doubt the canal would have been a splendid enterprise if carried out for the original capital, and if it mold be kept open without spending from £40,000 to £.50,000 per annum for dredging. Any effort at economy had been sneered at. Probably even more money would be wanted. He could be no party to recommeading the ratepayera to pledge their property further until a very different arrangement had been made between the Corporation and the Ship Canal Company. Sir John emphasised the fact that before they went on the boards various works had been inaugurated which did not admit of any extensive alterations, and the Corporation had been powerless in the matter. Under the circumstances he thought he was entitled to ask to be relieved from further responsibility. The consideration of this statement, which crested much sensation, was postponed.  The Rev. Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, has sailed for Honolulu on a trip round the world.  The Rev. Canon Lord Forester, reeidentiary canon of York Minster, is dangerously ill.  During the retreat from MOSCOW the French lost or threw away over 000,000 muskets. It was to the tobacco trade that Glasgow firrit owed its importance in the we:oil,' of commerce. It Ic now claimed that Mount Logan, in Alaska, 19,500 ft., it the highest mountain in America.  The great search light exhibited at Chicago has been erected at Bandy Hook. It has a strength of 194,000,000 candle power. Mr. H. E. Hoare, Gladstonian M. P. for West Cambridgeshire, announces his intention of voting against the Budget in Committee. No change ban yet taken place in the relations between the Cunard Company and their coalheavers, who are still on etrike. The Etruria in being coaled by free labourer.. Lieutenant Fergusson, quarter-master of the 4th Gloucester Regiment, committed suicide on Monday morning by shooting himself through the head with a rifle at Cirencester. Mr. Gladstone was allowed to drive out on Tuesday afternoon in an open carriage. Dr. Nettleship visited him in the evening, and was thoroughly eatisfied with the right hon. gentleman's progress.  At the Suffolk Assizes, at Bury St. Edmunds, on Wednesday, Mr. Justice Day sentenced three men to the leak, and varying terms of imprisonment, for a highway robbery, the victim of which was an old man.  A strange scene was witnessed at the Kimberley Diamond Market on Batunisy. Mr. Darrell Smith, a well,known labour agitator, was tarred and feathered by members of the labour party in the presence of an immense ooncourse of people, in c .usequenoe of disloyal action on his part.  Patrick Caulfield wee admitted to the West London Hospital, on Moniay morning, in a precarious condition, suffering from barns. It is alleged that Caulfield opens a lamp during a ' quarrel with hie wife after returning from a wedding. A singular fatality has occurred to. child at Liverpool, named Mabel Roberts, aged seven. While playing in the etreet with a toy boat made of tin, she fell, and the sharp point of the mast entered one of the eyes and penetrated the brain. The floor mille belonging to Vernon & Sone, near Uttokter, were destroyed by fire early on Monday morning. The damage is eetimated at £5,000. rbe lire in believed to have been ennead by the explosion of. paraffin lamp. Mr. Balfonr hes never been seen wearing a hat in the House of Commons. Whether in power or in opposition, he is invariably uncovered. He never, in fact, brings his hat within the precinets of the chamber. On Friday, however, Mr. Bal. boar's aversion to headgear had a singular development. He was observed driving in the forenoon in Sloane Street, London, without hie hat.