The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1891-08-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SILIW-LEFEVRE thought Viet the Postmaster. General was to be le/artily congratulated aeon the numerous and inn 'Ottani' changes which he had effected of late in Ow conduct of his Department, some of them being due apparently to the criticisms of Mr lienniker Heaton and others, while the remainder had their origin in the recent Postal Goagrese at Vienna. These referent would be received by the public with cordial approval, and would go liar to allay the dissatisfection existing in certain I branches of the serviee. The additional charges involved might possibly he considerable, : but the annual increase in the postal revenue amounted to about £200,000, and probably no difficulty need be anticipated in this respect. °nevi the most serious obstacles to reform in the eastern was the rigid supervision exercised over the doings of the Department by the Treasury. Until the Postmaster-General was freed from this minute harassing control, the administration of the Post Office could never be entirely eatisfactory. Mr IsescsoN complained of the absence of an evening delivery in the East End of London.—Mr PICKERBOILL appealed to the Postseaster-General to reinstate some of the officials dismissed during the recent strike.—Major Reece objected to the regulation by which when army pensioners were employed by the Post Office the amount of their pensions was deducted from their wages. Captain PENTON, Mr CUTIENORAKE Gamlen, and Mr Powers continued the diteussion. Mr B. ROBERTS urged that in Wales MOM Welshspeaking officials should be employed.—Mr SEXTON referred to the grievances of the Post Office employees at Belfast, and trusted that the Peatmaster-General would give an undertaking to bestow his personal attention upon theaubjeet. —Mr Waheect complained that certain holidays promised to the telegraph clerks of Edinburgh had not been granted, and asked for an assurance I Thomas Friona was :track behind the c that faith would 'he kept with those hall while crieketing st Horton Kirby on N effioers.—Dr. TANNER continued the discuss.on. day eredeg. a Ile died directly afterwards. —Mr Raises, replying to the various points raised, said the total estimated revenue for the comingl The race in the Solent between the yacht and Columbine was not concluded until a year amounted roughly to twelve million pounds, !o'clock on Thursday morning, when tee het an expansion of some £300,000 as compared David Wilson, a solicitor's pupil, con with last year's revenue. The expenditure, on the suicide at &mime, Conn tyDonegal, onWedne other hand, was estimated at some six million hanging himself by means of two pocket h pounds, showing an increase of about £6)3,000. chiefs. The reason ies , fort increase in expenditure as eom- Whilst working in the Stoke tune pared with revenue was to be found in the yery Grantham, on the Great Northern Bail' comprehensiNe improvements which had been Thursday, a bricklayer's labourer named I effected during the past year in the position of the Cross, aged 45, was knocked down by a goo staff. Within the past eighteen months almost every branch of the service had been overhauled, and killed. He was terribly mutilated.At a meeting of the Tamworth Town Col and as a mesh had received a substantial in- Thursday a letter from Mr Findlay, manage crease in comforts and emoluments. With re- London *and North-Western Railway Compa gard to the alleged undue control exercised over the Post Office *by the Treasury, the vigilance read workshop and gmitsans were shortly to confirming the report that the Co s of the latter Department in reference to moved to Northampton. the boy messengers' question had been to ' l a very large extent justilied by the fact At a meeting of Unionists and Consei one of the companies concerned was held at Whitehaven Thursday Lord Mr flea already in liquidation. As to the officials was selected to contest the Egxemont Div dismissed during the strike troubles, he was always Cumberland in the Unionist interest at t ready to consider pleas for their reinstatement election. In the Queen's Bench Division, London, el whenever they seemed reasonable. With reference • to the deduction from the salaries perd to army day, on application of the Local Governmen d pensioners of the amount of their pensions, rule nisi for a mandamus was granted that was the invariable practice, and applied,'se Guardians of Kettering, Northamp appoint a Vaccination Officer, the Guardi other Government departments. The amount a not only to the Post Office, but to all I irkg refused to flu the office since it fell vs September last. paid to the French and Italian Governments for the carriage of the lud'an mails from Calais and At Work i wham on Thursday Wm. Lancel Brindisi was undoubtedly excesei,,,,,—(hear, man to General )3eauclueep, was charged hear)—but it was the constant endeavour ef the wilful murder of Herbert Bayent, a stable i Department to reduce the amount; and two such beating him on the head with a stable fork reductions had already been obtained. (Hear, hear.) (pence of some disagreement.—Deeeasee —The motion was not . mother was in court, and caused some sens pressed flourishing her umbrella at the prison , ANOTTIETt