The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1908-12-26 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

DALLAS HALL, 152, GRANGE-ROAD, BLEXENSEAD, imd4o9  MHZ PEDIBERTON OOLLIZRY 00, LCIA Calorlea MeV 1111 Z Se aa7 POW  IBOROUGI  THE PASSING WEI  ••••••=.l Dr. D. M. Grace. &Le resigned the secretaryship of the Gloucestershire Cricket Club.  • I • .•  The Board of Trade returns of the commerce of certain foreign countries and Bntuth possessions up to the end of last. mouth have been issued. On the side of the imports the United States has suffered most heavily, the drop for the last ten months from the corresponding period of last year being no less than .C 69,000,000. The following export figures are tor the Srst ten months of each year, except tbose of Germany, which are for nine months only—in .2 millions:1906 1907 1908 United Kingdom United States France Germany (9 months) 217 249 245 • • • •  The King on Monday returned to London /vim Brighton. and presided over a o @sting of the Privy Codncil at Bucking Palace, at which, in addition to ather business, the Bora assent was given to the Prorogation Speech.  E • •  The Right Rev. Luke Paget. D.D., BishopSugragax of Ipswich. has been appointed to succeed the Araltbishop-desiguate of York as Bishort4raga.n de-Stepney. A verdict of " wilful murder and suicide" was returned' On Monday, at Newport, OA the conclusion of the coroner's inquiry into circumstances of the death ot Arthur Frederick Winds and Catherine ( larke, who were found shot in an express ttain that had passed through the Severn Tunnel.  Mr. Carnegie, giving evidence on Monday before the Ways and Means Committee of the American House of Representatives, strongly advocated wiping out the I.rotective duties on steel, and said he did not believe this would result in a reduction of woges.  It is officially announced that the Fing kas appointed a Royal Commission to examine the various schemes, which have been adopted or proposed. in order to secure a fully representative character for topularly elected legislative bodies. and to consider whether and how far they, or any of them, are capable of application in this country in regard to the existing electorate. The Commission is constltutii as follows: Lord Richard Frederick Cavendish (chair.  man). _ Lord Lochee of Gowrie, P.C.. K.C. Bon. Edwin S. Montairn, MT. Sir Francis Hopwood, 0.C.M.G.. Sir Courtenay K.C.S.I. Sir Charles Norton F.liot, How William Pember Reeves, and Mr. Jelin Wale,l Hills, M.F. The Secretary to the Commission is Mr. Charles D. Robertson. to whom correspond. *ace mor, be addressed at the Treasurychambers. Whitehall, SW.  The vicarage of St. Michael's Chest,. square, London, has been accented by the Rev. • J. Gough McCormick, vicar of St. Paul's, Prince's Park. Liverpool, on the notoinatio Westminster.n. of the Duke of Westminster. The new TICALT is the son of Canon McCoy.mick., rector of St. James's, Piccadilly, ands like his fattupr. took his degree at It. John's CollsgeL Cambridge, and obtained his "Blue. He was ordained in 1897 -to the curacy of Great Yarmouth, and was appointed to St. Paul's. Liverpool, in t9Ol. Be is well known as a preacher, and was invited to join the Mission of Help to South Africa a few ymrs ego. He _preaches at ,St. Paul's Cathedral .next Sunday evening, and has undertaken the second week of middisy addresses under the dome in Lent next year.  w • •  London County Council bas been as•essed b* the Thames Conservancy in a fine of de1b...9:30 and a fee of .0157 10s. for the Lew County Hall, Embankment. • • •  Sir Thomas Roe, MY., who is to receive the liatofary freedom of his tative town of fertmu January 6th, on the occasion at i'sgthilee as a member of the corpora-, tiom will commemorate the event by int all the inhabitants over sixty-fire to a tea and entertainment. • • • • On Tuesday afternoon, a clerk, name Arthur Hunt, in the eurpkry of Mr. S. J. silyersmith and dealer in antique , plata, mirrying on business in New BondMalt; London, committed suicidal by shoot- 4, tassel, with a revolver when he we , ahroi• to be arrested on a warrant by a leteetive. '