Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1895-12-21 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

COMPETITION. Pl'd. Won. Lost. Dr'n. Pts. Holderness Britannia 10 ... 8 ... 1 .. 1 ... 17 Hull Neptune St. Andrew's Kingston A 7 5 1 1 ... 11 Hull Sherburn West Hull Central Hull Groves United A Stoneferry A  The Prince Consort died on December 14, 1861, and Princess Alice in 1878.  A private track is being built for the German Emperor, who has fallen a victim to the bicycle craze.  There is but one factory in Japan where leather shoes are made. The natives, except about the Court, wear sandals of straw or wood.  A fire, which was speedily extinguished, occurred in the "governor house" of Worthing Gasworks on Monday evening. The town was, however, thrown into complete darkness, aud much excitement prevailed.  Jane Gilmour, aged six years, died at Paisley, on Monday, from the effects of injuries from burns. The deceased stepped on the fender to reach the mantelshelf, when her clothing caught lire and badly burned her hands, breast, and face. The death was announced on Monday of Admiral the Hon. F. Egerton, at his residence, St. George's Villa, Weybridge, at the age of 75. The Admiral, who had been in failing health for some time, leoves a widow, Lady Louisa Egerton, sister of the Duke of Devonshire. From the West African Coast it is stated that an expedition had becn carried out by the Niger Coast Protectorate troops against a tribe in the interior, the King and eight chiefs being killed by a shell.  At the meeting of the Croydon County Council on Monday night, Councillor King, chairman of the sanitary committee, reported an outbreak of rabies at Woodside. Ten dogs had been destroyed, and two injured children had been sent by permission of the Local Government Board to the Pasteur Institute at the council's expense. Alfred James Stevens, tailor, of Plymouth, was brought before the Dover Magistrates on Monday and charged with stealing from his lodgings four boxes of cigarettes, one book, anti other articles. Re was further charged on suspicion with stealing the sum of £7 10s. Evidence relative to the first charge was taken, and Stevens was remanded for a week.  At Spalding the Board of Guardians on Monday accepted a tender for bread at 20. per 41b. loaf. The contractor was Mr. F. Addy, who tendered a farthing lower than Mr. S. Smith, another local baker, who for many years had supplied the Spalding Board with bread at remarkably low rates.  Hugh Meehan was sentenced to 12 years' penal servitude at Leinster Assizes, held at Wicklow, on Monday, for the manslaughter of Michael Kenny, at Kells, county Meath. It was stated that after a political meeting the prisoner attacked deceased and smashed his skull with a heavy stone. The charge was originally one of murder. An inquest was held at Jersey on Monday on the body of a gardener named French, who was found hanging in a garden shed. The state of the body induced the authorities to have a post-mortem examination made, when it was found that the deceased actually died from heart disease just as his suicide preparations were completed.  _ The list of candidates who 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 Westfield College, Hampstead. Miss Pearce has also obtained the Gilchrist Prize and Medal, which are awarded annually to the woman who gains most marks in the B.A. examination.  SAVE time and expense by sending your orders for printing to the Minster Press, Beverley. Good workmanship guaranteed.  CURE for Tic, Toothache, and Sciatica. Beall's Tic Specific has been tested and proved to be a most reliable remedy, giving immediate relief by bracing up the nerves.—Sold by HOYLES, Chemits, Holderness-road, Hull, and most Chemists.