The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1908-05-02 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  King Edward on Saturday received at Copenhagen an address from representathw of a number of public institutions in Denmark. In reply he expressed the pleasure it had been to watch the rapid and wonderful devekrpment, both in the trade and agriculture of the country, and the discoveries in science. He and the QUOBII had every confidence that the intellectual and material bonds which so happily united Great Britain and Denmark would be daily strengthened. Late in the evening King Edward, Queen Alexandra, and Princess Victoria left the Danish capital for Sweden, and on arriving in Stockholm were given a most hearty welcome.  During a blizzard which raged in the Solent on Saturday afternoon, 11-?A.S. Gladiator, cruiser, collided with the American liner St. Paul, oft Yarmouth, isle of Wight. The cruiser was badly injured.,and had to be beached, but the St. Paul was able to return to Southampton for repairs, with passeiagers and crew cafe.  A verdict of "Suicide while temporary insane" was returned at the inquest on Saturday on M. Reginald Houghton Blain, a Liverpool corgi merchant, who was found at his reaidence, bole Cottage, floole, near Cheater, an Friday, with his throat out. Deceased, who vras SO years of age, had auflered from insomnia. • • • •  In the final of the Football Association Oup Competition., on Saturday, Wolverhampton Wanderers defeated Newcastle United 3-1. _ _ _  John. S. Hepburn, formerly Town Clerk of Rodiessay, who, owing to 10515E1S On the Stook Exchange, embezzled truat money, was eentenced in Edinburgh on Saturday to five years penal servitude. Tuo (ilasgow aolneibors, named Henry Lamont and John S. Lang, for embezzling truat money, were sentenced, the former to five and the latter to four years' penal servitude.  The Caronia, which arrived at the Prince's Stage on Sunday morning from New York, interchanged wireless messages on one day of her trip with no fewer than eleven steamers. The kiner received a message from Olace Bay, Nava Spokih, when 2,260 miles distant. At the same time it was in touch with Clifden, Co. tialway, 996 miles from Liverpool.  A sensation was created in Northwich on Saturday morning by the myeterious disappearance of Tom Manton, 35 yeas• of age, secretary of the Northwich Wednesday Football Club. His cap and coat were found lying beneath Warrington-road Bridge, which spans the river Weaver, and the body was found on Saturday forenoon in the river about thirty yards from the bridge. • • •  Fire men have been injured, four severely, by an explosion on board H.M.S. Britannia, a battleship of the Channel Fleet, while on a trip from the Firth of Forth to Portnnionth.  S • • • The Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking on Tuesday afternoon at Lambeth Palace, as president of the Church of England Temperance Sonety, said the more he regarded it the more clearly was he convinced that the principlee upon which the Government Licensing Bill were based,were right, true, and just. . • • •  The body of the late Sir Henry CerapballBannerman was interred in Meigle Churchyard, Perthshire, amid the most general manifestations of mourning by the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, where the late Premier was so greatly beloved.  It is reported from Tangier that the alleged assaseiustion of Raistili, the bamoue bandit, io mithout foundation..  Mr. Churakill, writing to the chairman of his election committee in maacheaben., says there ie in the heart of every political reverse the dynamic impulse of a future triumph, and m his opinion the figures of the poll ought to carry the highest encouragement to all earnest Free Traders.  A very unusual and unfortunate incident h.aa coourred a the Kensington General Hoepibal, Earl's Court, London, w.hese, through the management's inability to pay oft the institution's debts through a total lack of funds, a broker', man has been put in posseseion.