The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1895-12-21 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

OOO. Mention was made on Monday in the Court 01 Appeal of an action for breach of promise instituted against a draper by his houeekeeper. Plaintiff had met defendant and settled the action foe £lO ; but by some means the case went on and judgment was entered against the man. Execution had been stayed et Norwich, and it was now desired to set aside the order. The court refused.  At Spalding, on Monday, the Board of Guardians sce,>pted a tender for bread at 2-1,1. per 41b. loaf. The contractor was Mr. F. Addy, who tendered 14. lower than Mr. Smith, another local baker, who for many years had supplied the Spalding Board with bread at remarkably low rates. At the same meeting the contraot price for beef was 48. 11d. `a stone, awl for mutton 4d. a pound. The list of candidates ivho have passed the recent B. A. examination of London University with Mathematical Honours has just been issued. The only woman on the list is Miss A. B. Pearce' a student at Weattialalleg' . Hampstead. *Miss Pearce has also obtained the Gilehriat Prize and Medal, which arc sw:,ltlial annually to thus woman who gains most marks in the B.A. examination.  Acting upon the report of the Departmental Committee on the Screening- of Side Lights of Ships, the Board of Trade, in conjunction with the Admiralty, have submitted an order in Council rescinding the previous order of the 30th December, 1893. The oraor will come into eff.ot in due course. The Board of Trade have also issued instrootions to their surveyors throughout the country.  Clara Ann Rosins' Pickernell, aged 29, housemaid, committed suicide at 13641100411 ad RH.illYny Station. At the inytest it was stated that deceased, who had been out of a situation since March last,was engaged to be married to a sailor at Portsmouth, a seaman in her Majesty's navy. It appeared,however, that the engagement was broken off.—Verdict, " Suicide while of unsound mind." A shocking accident occurred at the Adel phi Cotton Mill,Dollington,on Monday. A man named Matthew Lomas, aged 42 years,who was employed as a joiner by Mr. Beard, builder and contractor, was preparing to box up some shafting when his apron was caught by the revolving shaft. When released he was taken to the Macclesfield Infirmary, where he died after about two hours' agony. On the west side of the Bat tersea Municipal buildings at Lavender Hill a new theatre is to be erected. It will have a frontage of 160 feet on the projected thoroughfare leading into Eland Road, and will accommodate about 1,208 persons. Subject to certain conditions, the Theatres and Music Hall Committee of the County Council have approved the plans of the building, which is to be called the Shakespeare Theatre. A Bankers' Institute for Manchester and the dietriet was inaugurated on Manday evening. It is calculated that about 2,500 persons are engaged in bank work in Manehester and neighbourhood, and of this number 624 have been enrolled as members of the institute. Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, Bart., who holds a unique position, being head of the only private banking establishment in the city, was unanimously appointed president of the institute. From Algeria we learn of the death of an Arab centenarian, who was almost a prophet in his own country. "llaij Ali ben Cheik ben A 1893, who died on Saturday, at Medeah,near Algiers, was 115 yeare of age, if we are to credit his relatives. He rvas the owner of the great seal of the Cheik bon Aissa, which endows the whole tribe of Aissonas with the magic) property of handling with impunity poisonous snakes. Deceased has left his talisman to his son, Si Ali ben el Hatlj Ali.  At Blackburn, on Tuesday, Thomas Fawcett (16), an inmate of Blackburn Workhouse, Tram committell for trial for burglarionsly breaking into the store room and stealing a quantity of goods:When caught in the not by the storekeeper, accused leaped from a high ladder to effect his senape. Mr. Radcliffe (clerk to the Guardians) said that the prisoner's confession of previous thefts from the storeroom had cleared various officials from suspicion.  The claimant to the Lovat peerage (Mr. John Fraser, of Levet), whose ease is again shortly to come before the Law Courts, has served the maneger of the Holborn Rsteuraut with formal notice not to give up the watch and seals, bearing the crest of the house of Fraser, recently discovered in the now demoralis,d old building adjoining the King's Hall, " to coy poraon other than myself, as I have absolute testimony to show that the watch is my property." According to a letter from Milan, Signor Maecagni last week definitely took up his duties as director of the Lioeo Musicale Roqsini, which was founded out of the funds left by the deceased composer, at his birthplace Name). Signor Mnscagni has announced his intention to temporarily cease work upon the various operas which he has in hand, and indeed it is said that he does not intend to produce any further operas for come few yeQrs, but instead will devote himself to teaching. At Liverpool Police Court, on TuNulay, Winifred Webb was charged with robbing Thomas Henry Scott of £2 9s. 6d. and a pair of spectacles. Scott, who is assistant hangman to Billington, or. arriving in-Liverpool on Monday night to atteud Tuesday's execution, met prisoner. Prisoner was arrested in the police station while cherging two men with robbing her. She was committed to the sessions. In the Belgian Senate on Tuesday, M. Le Jenne explained at great length his Bill against games of °henna and betting on horse races. He urged the adoption of the measure in order to check the exploitation of those who betted by arasetioal hangers on, and to permit of the institution of civil proceedings against gamblers. M. Van Put, Senator for Antwerp, opposed the Bill, declaring it to be exaggerated and impracticable. The Senate, by eightyone to seventy-eight votes, however, deeided to permit the introduotion of the measure.