The Northern Guardian. — 1894-04-19 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

ABRAHAMS & SONS. —The old-established firm of the late G. L. Abrahams, after 27 years has come to a close in West Hartlepool, but the businessik still carried on by the family in Newcastle (thu London Emporium, 63, Grainger Street West), where they will be pleased to see their Hartlepool friends. The 'stock of 25, Church Street, will be sold by auction every afternoon 1.30, evening 6.30, at Mr Lithgow's salerooms, Charles Street, until the entire stock is cleared out. The business has been transferred to Messrs Collingwood & Co., of Middlesbrough.—Advt. Mr C. Smith, secretary of London Guildhalf School of Music, died yesterday. The late Alderman Readhead, shipbuilder, of South Shields, has left £286,000.  The Duke of York has consented to open the new lock on the Thames, at Richmond, on May 13. Edison is now at work on a plan to grease the sides of ships, so that they will slip through the water more readily.  A fire broke out, yesterday, at Messrs Bancroft & Co.'s cotton mill, rodmorden, doing damage estimated at £3OOO.  Mr C. Furness, M.P., voted, on Tuesday night, for giving Scotland privilege which are refused to the " predominant partner."  The Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry arrived, to-day, at Londonderry House, Park Lam, from their seat in the North of Ireland.  One man was killed and another badly injured by a fall of earth while excavating an artificial lake in Southport Winter Gardens, yesterday.  At yesterday's sitting of the Norwegian Starthing, M. Andersen introduced a bill establishing an eight hours day in Norwegian workshops. A seriors fire occurred at Birr Railway Station, King's County, Ireland, yesterday, with the result that a large g;sanary and store were destroyed. The Rev. Charles Malbon, Catholic priest, who was rccently stationed at Felling, died rather suddenly at the Rectory, Carlisle, on Monday night. The Amalgamated Society of Joiner% which had an income of £109,722 and an expenditure of £109,441 last year, spent £15,904 in lock-outs and strikes.  A marriage has been arranged between Captain Charles Lyon, WA., aide-de-camp to the Governor of Ceylon, and Rachel Mary Fgarne, only child of Sir Arthur Havelock, Governor of Ceylon.  A bill has been introduced in the House of Commons to provide for the teaching in public elementary schools of agricultural and horticultural subjects, and for the practical illustration and application of such teaching.  Probate of the will has been granted, and probate duty has been paid on £80,354 5s 9,1 as the net value (the gross value being £121,818 10s 5(l) of the personal estate of Mr John Rogerson, of Croxdale Hall, Durham, J.P.  Mr W. F. Monkman, assistant-secretary, NorthEastern Railway Company, has resigned his appointment. Mr W. H. Tidswell has been appointed registrar and head of the transfer department in succession to Mr Monkman.  The Bishop of Derry, preaching in Ripon Cathedral, remarked that the most plausible argument against established religion was not the riches of the Establishment ; it was the poverty amongst a considerable number of the clergy.  A terrible suicide is reported from Dublin. Patrick Collins, 35 years of age, threw himself from a window of Langford Hotel. Queen Street, on Tuesday night, and was impaled on the spiked railings. When taken to the hospital he died in a few minutes from his injuries.