The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1895-06-19 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

CIIIPS OF NEWS.  AT HOME. The Queen has been pleased, by Letters Patent, to authorise the annexation of the TransPongolo territories (being the territories of Samhana, or Zambaan, and other native chiefs) to the British possession of Zululand.  At reterbouse, Cambridge, on Saturday, William 1-I,ilry Seyfang, who comes from Maidstone, was found dead in bed.  Mr. Edward Dring Pidd, who had held the post of master of Retford Workhouse for I 7 years, has commit ed suicide by blowing out his brains with a double-barrelled shot gun.  The High Sheriff for Surrey has appointed Tuesday, July 2nd, for the execution of Harry Tickener, who is lying under sentence of death in Wandsworth prison for the murder of his wife with a bill-hook at Send, near Guildford, in February. At Wimpson, a small village near Southampton, Moses Pressley, a septuagenarian, was found by his daughter in a sitting position at the bead of his bed. He had a scarf round his neck tied to the bedpost, and was quite dead. He had been unable to get work. Mr. James Baillie, Dissentient Liberal, has been returned to Parliament for Inverness-shire, in the room of Dr. Macgregor, resigned. He polled 3,164 votes, as against 2,514 given to Mr. Macrae, the Liberal and crofter candidate. This is a loss of a seat to the Liberal party. Mr. Henry Thompson, a well-known merchant and magistrate of Belfast, met with a shocking death on Sunday afternocn. He had taken a seat on the top of a tramcar, when he overbalanced and fell, the side of his head striking the granite setts of the street. Life was extinct before the arrival of medical aid.  While taking part in the junior cricket match at Swindon a young man named Palmer dropped to the ground as he was about to start for a run, and died in a few minutes, after uttering a word or two. It is supposed that he was a victim to heart disease. He had only been married a few months.  A terrible accident occurred late on Saturday night in the Upper-street, Islington. The horses attached to a 'bus standing outside the Grand Theatre took fright. In attempting to stop the runaways a horsekeeper fell beneath the wheels, which passed completely across his throat, almost severing the head. Death was instantaneous.  At Gloucester, five servants of the Great Western Railway were charged with stealing goods in transit during the past nine months. Evidence shewed that prisoners opened large numbers of parcels and stole part of the contents of each, and then re-fastened them. Prisoners were each found guilty and sentenced to terms varying from six months to a few days. The scale of charges laid down for a three minutes' conversation by the new telephone lines laid by the General Post Office to Scotland and Ireland is 3d. for 29 miles or less, 6d. up to, 40 miles, anl 6d. extra for every additional 40 , miles or fraction of that distance, while extra charges will be made when the use of the submarine cable is.required or exceptional expense is incurred.  Shortly before noon on Saturday, when the Continental train had just emerged from the Polhill tunnel on the South-Easte,n Railway, near Sevenoaks, the engine brake flew off, and the tyre coming into contact with the engine caused a good Jeal of damage to the latter. An engine from Tunbridge took the train the rest of the journey, which was completed nearly an hour late.  The Rev. William Jackson Holnaee has been committed for trial by the Faversham magistrates on a charge of stealing a gold chain, watch, and other jewellery, the property of Miss Ellen Partis. While conducting a Wesleyan Mission Holmes was entertained by prosecutrix's father. After his departure the jewellery was missed. Prisoner had to undergo a month's imprisonment at Manchester before the Faversham police could lay hands on him.  In consequence of a strong representation to the military authorities by the fishermen in the neighbourhood of Lydd and Dungeness it has been decided not to fire ti e heavy ordnance over A given area of the sea, the effect of the firing being to scare away the fish upon which the fishermen depend for a living. The present time of the year is a most important one to the fishermen, being practically their harvest, owing to the large quantities of mackerel to be caught.  Mr. John B. Wood Henley, a justice of the peace for the county of Salop, was charged at Ludlow with using threatening language to Sir Charles Henry Rouse Boughton, Bart., of Down.. ton Ball. The evidence went to shew that the dispute took place after church on the 26th ult. The defendant admitted calling Sir Charles a bully, a coward, and a liar, and said "he thought the words adaptable to the occasion." After-a long hearing the Bench dismissed the case, and ordered each party to pay his own costs. William Marshall Leggett, aged 30, living at Plumstead, has died in the Royal Arsenal infirmary from the effects of injuries received in the gun factories. It appears that he was at work with another man named Kingston, putting up a railway signal, when one of the planks of the staging gave way, and they both fell a depth of 19 feet on to a cast-iron floor. Leggett alighted on his head, and sustained fracture of the skull, from which he died in a few hours. Kingston sustained fracture of the arm and other serious injuries.  The funeral of Mr. Thomas Beard, formerly Under-Sheriff of the City of London, took place 'on Friday in the Abney Park Cemetery, the Rev. J. Barrass officiating. The chiet mourners were his five sons. The Lord Mayor sent a Carriage and Mr. Deputy Creasey, Mr. Councillor Lee, and Mr. Councillor IV. H. Pannell attended on behalf of the Ward of Bassishaw. There was in addition a large gathering of friends, while the many wicaths with which the coffin was covered bore testimony. to the esteem in which the late Under-Sheriff was held.  While Rear-Admiral Buckle, the naval commander on the Irish station, was making an examination of the reservoirs at Haulbciwiine on Saturday morning, a foreman labourer of the party, named Kenny, accidentally fell into a tank, and, striking his head against one of the walls, sank. The reservoir contained six feet Of viater, and the Admiral, with a rope round his waist, was promptly lowered into the tank and succeeded in rescuing the unconscious man. Efforts at resuscitation, however, failed, and Kenny expired without regaining consciousness.