The Haslingden Gazette. — 1914-02-28 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

SOH. ration a few years ago, fiord -Ashby St. Ledgers has earned distinction a, a Yeomanry leader in the South African War as a social asset to the Lilxwad Government. and as an excellent all-round sportsman. His wife, one of the most chisrming women in society, own) many priceless jewels. She was one of the first 9- was said, to adopt and /popularise the 'fashion of diamond shoulder/Amps. Her relatives are very "ohurchy " people. especially her mother-in-law. Lady Wimborne, who at one time ran an ecclesiastical bookshop in London.  One doctor of the London insurance [one! his 5.177 persons on his list. Mr. llobhouse. the Poetmaster-General, denied that letters passing through the post to well-known persons in Ulster had been opened or that them had been ally *stem of Espionage. A sixteen-months-old baby girl was the plaintiff an Row County Court on Tuesday in an action for damages for personal injuries. She sucked an orange solemnly throughout Ole proceedings. Fines totalling £585 were imposed on the pro. prietims of two night clubs at Marlborough.street In the case of the Tramatlantic Club. Greekt-treet. the penalties on -two defendiuma reached £360.  Mr. Philip Joss. hrokrr, Abehurch-lane, London. died on Sunday as the result of a motor accident near Caterhaini, Surrey, last Monday, in which he was panned beneath the overturned ear aad severely burned. Sir George Reid, the Australian High thmoussioner in London, returned to Adelaide, South Australia. on Monday night exhausted by the heat at Mount Gambier, where he has been staying. Ile has entered a nursing home. The Labur party in the Cockerniouth Division at a Conference at WOlkingtOn on Saturday decried that the time was uot opportune to decide the queation of running a Labour candidate at the next election. A ballot of trade unionists is to he taken.  Sunderland master 'mariner. Captain T. (kL H,dhv, was found lying dead on Ilia dauglifiree grave in Bishop's-commute. Cemetery. Sunderland. on Tuesday morning with is bullet wound through his braii. and a revolver in hie hand.  The twelve-year-old or. of Mr. Rooke. a bricklayer. of Wereniell. near Selby (Yorkabire), died on Saturday from, injuries received in n collision between a naitorcar and the side-car attached to a motor-cycle, in which his father wart driving him to • comers.  The famous Norse stone of Yarmouth. Nova Scotia. bearing the inscription oe Ilarku, who lauded there in the year 1007, or neat-k- 500 years before Columbus discovered America, has been secured for the Norwegian Pacific Railway Exhibition at Christiania.  It is alleged that because he was taunted by some companions at Nottingham John Henry Peters aged fourteen yours, cut hie throat in two places. He Wtl6 too iII to be brought up at the Chiddren's Court on Saturday to lII.Wer a clharge of attempted suicide An autooar from Morpeth ran into the buffers at Newcastle Central Station on Saturday owing to the wheels skidding on greasy rails. but little ,ls,iiar,'nrvr,rloite. and the only complaints went of shock by two men passengers. who were able to continue their journey. Sentence of three mouths' imprisonment hiss been pa...0il in Paris on an English motorcar driver who on January 13 knocked down with his car a tramway-car driver named Robique at Cour. bevoie. An English lady of means is held responsible for the civil damages  For loitering in Boar-lane. 1.1.1,15. on Sunday nght and "tapping -Ale pockets of ',etude enteting the tranixay car., Arthur Gill. a young Malt, of no fixed abode, and agannt a horn there were ,esn-nil convictions for felony, aas at Lued. tented to lino months aith hard labour.  The Rev. C. V. Camplin Cogan and the Rev. Dr. Oils:son on Saturday waited upon King Mernirel and his Consort at Falwell Park to present to then, a miniature IRI ivoly of Queen Amelia of Portugal. the gilt, of the pariatrioners of All Saints'. Twickenham. on the occasion of their wedding. Whiki geilloping in Rotten Row, Hyde Park. 111 b, Polwhele, of Inverness Terrace. Bayswater. font control of her hone, anal MIS thrown heavily in trying to avail the crowd on the footpath. He,. held saint& the kerb. and 1.110 was out about. the fitos. She wan taken to u neighbouring- doctor's.  ippcal lout been entered from the xertlict and juthrtneet itlocli directed Sir Stuart Samuel Ml'.. to ply £43.000 penalties to Mr. Bird, of I hunl,-",o I. tilt. common informer." who brought t 1,,, 11l tin tegarding the defendant's votes in the lime, ..1 (*moutons cm the Indian contract.