Widnes Examiner. — 1883-10-27 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ANOTHER DEFAULTING ACCOUNTANT.—It was reported at a meeting of the General Purposes Committee of the Wolverhampton Town Council that !lie accounts of the borough accountant, Mr. Bryan, had been examki aud a deficiency of £1,300 discovered. FAILURE OF Barcvmus.—A petition for liquidation has been filed in the Wakefield Bankruptcy Court on behalf of ' William John and Benjamin Mitchell, trading as Mitchell Brothers, brewers, at Whitwood Wakefield. The liabilities are estimated at over £20,000. PRESENTATION TO CAPTAIN SHAW DiE QuErs._ 1 Captain Shaw has a resent tom the Queen of a handsome ' • " P- —.rote clock, with the following inscripticn resznted to Captain Shag, Superintendent of the MetroInolitan Fire Brigade, by Victoria It. 1., 1883." CA:rIItRkNE FLANNAGAN AND MARGARET HIGGINS were 01".'Tuesday taken before the Liverpool Stipendiary, charged with poisoning Higgins's husband by the administration of arsenic. The proceedings were purely formal, the prisoners being remanded for a further period of seven days. The towel weavers at Ashton, who have been on strike nine weeks against a proposed reduction of per cent. in Wave, have accepted a reduction of ak per cent., and work has been resumed. This arrangement is to terminate in three months if trade should continue unsatisfactory. On Saturday, a verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest at Driffield on the body of William Kavanagh, aged 27, a native of Belfast, 'who died from frightful injuries sustained by leaping into a deep ehaik pit, which he mistOok for a narrow watercourse, on the estate of Lord  Halifax. The Earl of Leicester (Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk), presiding at the annual meeting on Saturday of the Norfolk and Norwich Prisoners' Aid Society, said that crime was steadily decreasing, but not until there was J. prisoners' aid society in connection with every prison would the prison system be efficient Dr. Haffenden, who was last week "charged at Hammersmith Police Court with procurirq abortion, and was admitted to ball, was found dead ett Tuesday morning in his bedroom at Bath Place, KeasiTtgton. It is believed that the deceased committed suicide by poisoning. He left behind him a written statement -pretesting his innocence. There was a renewal 'on Sunday of the disgraceful scenes 'Which have followed the iniLition of the Rev. Mr. Fitzßoy, incumbent of St. Jude's, Hardwick-street, Liverpool. Notwithstanding the &ace of the bishop, Mr. Fitzßoy held a service in the church, and a row ensued, in the course of Which several of the communion table emblems were destroyed. George Goo av nged 36, dock labourer, was charged at the Stratford Petty Sessions, on Saturday, on four charges of uttering counterfeit coin. The prisoner, who was -proseeuted by the Treasury, was committed for trial. He was at once removed to the cells at the back of the court, but when the commitment had been made out be was found to have escaped. Edward Collins, hairdresser, charged with attempting to murder Benjamin Bass, butler to Mr. Townsend, Harleystreet, London, was on Tuesday committed for trial. The injored man stated that on the night of September 29th the prisoner, whom he had known for two years, paid him a viait, and, after making some inquiries about the plate, attacked him with a razor. William Sherbourne, a man who said he "could not beg and would not steal," and did not think it right that "in a free country a man should lie down and starve," was on Monday at the Bow-street Police Court, London, fined 103 and costs and the amount of damage done for having on Saturday afternoon wilfully thrown a stone through one of the windows at the Home Office. At a meeting at Wrexham a resolution was passed calling upon the Welsh members of Parliament to press for the removal of Mr. Homersham Cox from the position of County Court judge in Wales. Mr. Cox has given great offence to the Welsh people) by attributing to them a proneness to commit perjury; and it is retorted upon him in turn that he is ignorant of the native tongue.