The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-09-29 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

THE DEFALCATIONS- OF THE EXTREASURER OF HULL.  SUICIDE OF THE ASSISTANT TREASURER. , A shocking tragedy took place on Tuesday at Hull as one result of the recent discoveries made respecting the defalcations by Mr. Bolton, the ex-town treasurer. Connected with Mr. Bolton in the tranisaetion of the financial business of the town•was The accountant, Mr. W. Brooke, who has been in the service of the Corporation for about twenty-five years. Since the discovery above referred to, and the confession of Mr. Bolton that he had embaszled ,EIO,OOO of the town's money, an account of which was published a short time since, the Amalgamation Committee have been investigating the amour,* with a view of ascertaining the amount that had been embezzled, and Mr. Brooke has been undergoing an examination before this committee for two or three days. He denied all knowledge of the defalcations, though he bad virtual charge of the office for the last nine years, the treasurer being old and infirm, and not able to attend to the duties always personally. On Tuesday, last year's auditors appeared before the committee, and one of them requested to see Mr. Brooke. A message was sent that he was- temporarily absent in another part of the Town Hall, where the investigation was taking place, but he would return in a minute. The committee waited about an hour, and as he did not appear, search was made for him, but he could not be found. The copimittee had ordered that be should be watched, but it appeared that he had escaped from the hall, and intelligence was- received that he had gone home and blown his brains out. He was about forty years of age, and leaves a widow and nine children. He was captain in the Hull Artillery Volunteer Corps • and was also an active Freemason, and highly respected. The defalcations are said to boabout and the affair Is oausing the utmost sensation la the town.  The reservoir recently constructed by the Weardale and Sheldon Waterworks Company, near Comatt, burst on Monday, flooding the surrounding country. No lives were lost.  A gunpowder explosion took place on Tuesday in the Dudley Colliery Company's pits, thrcagh firing cartrares with a naked light. Several men were dange,ously burnt.  - "I never complained of my condition hat once," said an 01,21 man, " when my feet were bare and I had no money to buy shoes ; but I met a man without feet, and became contented."  A man who can sit with his feet in bat water, and a. yard of flannel around his throat, and not feel tha sweet influence of spring, is dead to the subtle instincts which link humanity to nature.  Among the deacons ordained on Sunday last by the Billop of Worcester were two who had formerly been Dissenting ministers, namely, Mr. !entish Bacho, for several years minister of the Unitarian chapel, More tonhampstead, Devon, and Mr. J. Arthur Wentworth Twiggins, formerly a Moravian mAnister. Tie CIII R(11 CuNGlll>,. --A movement has been set on foot to induce the Church Congress to meet at Croydon next year. The suggestion has the hearty assent of the Archbishop of C:...nterbury, and the members of the Lay and Clerical Association have decided that, if certain preliminary conditions are complitd with, an invitation'aball be sent.  A