The Northern Guardian. — 1892-05-26 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.  W.:min cleaned, is 6d : new mainsprings, is 6d; brooch pins 2d.—Csozusn, practical watehioaker, 76, Lynn Street, West Hartlepool.—Adrt. Major J. E. Jameson will he the Gladstonian candidate for Bury St. Edmunds.  A hailstorm last night did immense damage to grass and trees in the Harwich district.  The death is announced, says a Reuter's telegram from Melbourne, of Mr. Sanderson, who was famous as the most successful elephant hunter in India.  A return issued on Tuesday morning showed that the number of emigrants who left Irish ports in 1891 was 59,868, this being the smallest number since 1879. Of these all but 245 were natives of Ireland.  A letter received by the Dean of Ripon states that Canon M'Coll is lying ill in the hospital at Naples, but that he is improving. Yesterday Mr. H. C. Bickersteth received a telegram from Naples saying that Canon M'Coll was much better.  The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have now made grants of £225 in augmentation of the new benefice of St. Hilda, Darlington, known as the Bishop Lightfoot Memorial Church; of £6OO towards the endowment of the benefice of St. Augustin, Tynemouth.  An inquest was held at Hove, Brighton, yesterday, on the body of the Rev. Edwin Webster, aged 70, who hanged himself in his study. He kept a school, and had worried lately over money matters. The jury found that the deceesed committed suicide while of unsound mind.  The Press Association's Buckingham correspondent telegraphs :—The Cointe de Paris, who, for some time past, has been suffering from an internal disease, was subjected yesterday to a surgical operation. It is understood that the Prince's condition is as satisfactory as can be expected.  Last night Messrs. Black and Wilson, of the Ulster Loyalist Union, addressed a public meeting in the Old Grammar School, Brunswick Street, Stockton, on the subject of "Home Rule," with special reference, to the Irish Nonconformist position in respect thereto. Mr. J. C. Hudson presided.  Miss Kate Ridgway, eldest daughter of Mr. John Ridgway, of North Road, Congleton, Staffordshire, was drowned near St. Catherine's Rock, South Sands, Tenby, on Tuesday afternoon. The young lady, with her parents and other members of the family, were visitors to the town. The body was recovered after a search of six hours.  "Gentlemen," said a doctor to a group of students gathered round the bed of a patient at the Beaujon Hospital, "we are here in presence of a case of enormous enlargement of the lungs, and I am not surprised to learn that the patient was a member of a brass band." "My friend," continued the doctor, addressing the sick man, "you were a member of a wind band?" "Yes, doctor." " Now tell these gentlemen what instrument yon played." " I beat the big drum," responded the patient." A letter, which we have just received from a correspondent in California, gives a most glowing picture of that paradise of flowers. "There are fields," he writes, "within half a mile of Monterey, where you can see no green, but a perfect carpet of blues and yellows." And yet our traveller is not happy. McKinleyism breeds nostalgia. "I shall have to come back to England very soon," he adds, "as I haven't got a decent thing to wear, and it goes to my heart to have to pay £l7 for a suit of clothes." . Mr. E. Fryer, fishery inspector, appointed by the Board of Trade, sitting at the Whitby Police Court on Tuesday, held an inquiry into a bye-law recently passed by the Whitby Esk Board and Conservators proposing to establish "play ground" for salmon at the mouth of the river, a certain distance north and south of the piers.—Mr. W. Brown appeared for the Conservators, and evidence was called to show that the sea fishermen set their nets at the mouth of the harbour, and in that way caught an undue proportion of salmon to the injury of sport up the river.—On the other hand, evidence was given by several fishermen to the effect that if the restriction was imposed it would take away the means of living. They contended that plenty of fish got up the streams, and that frequently it was overstocked, as proved by so many salmon dying.— The Inspector said he would make his report to the Board of Trade.  At the 77th quarterly session of the South Durham District Lodge, held in the Wesleyan Chapel, Ferryhill, on Tuesday, the following resolution was unanimously adopted on the motion of Bro. Oliver, D.E.S. (Hartlepool) :—" This District Lodge, representing 2,000 adult members, hereby declares, in view of the approaching General Election, that no candidate for Parliamentary honours will be acceptable to the Good Templar Order who is not prepared to trust the people with the direct veto on the liquor traffic, to vote in favour of an Imperial measure of Sunday closing, and to oppose the granting of compensation to any person whose liquor license may not be renewed, and further asserts that it is the duty of every Good Templar to vote only for such candidates as are prepared to concede these just and reasonable demands."—Bro. E. 0. D. Sibson, district treasurer (Carlton), presented the report of the Executive Council, showing a membership of 1,957 adults and 2,512 juveniles. Reference was very feelingly made to the death of three members of the District Lodge, one being the late Bro. W. Dodgson, P. D. S. S. (Stockton-on-Tees). —Bro. C. J. Seaman, D.C. (Stockton), gave a very interesting address on "Our Vote, and what it is worth," which was listened to very attentively.—Bros. Dixon and Hayler also addressed the meeting. _