Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-04-14 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

COAO NZ. —The nest Coment for Broken Articles, 6t. Is., Zs. Postage 2d. Key Bros., Stockport. Sold everywhere.  AT the Quarter Sessions, Carmarthen, before Lord Emlyn, M.P., John Macgregor, 19, sailor, and George Williams, 21, cook, were sentenced to three months' hard labour for housebreaking, which offence they committed after dmerting from their artillery regiment at Pembroke Dock. nix flampshire Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting held at Peterafield, under the chairmanship of Mr. W. W. IS. Beach, M.P., adopted the following resolution upon the motion of Mr. Selater-Booth, M.P. "That this chamber records its opinion in favour of the introduction of the representative principle in county administration, bat is in lisposed to faebur any plan of county government which would unduly centralise the functions of boards of guardians, local boards, and municipal authorities."  THE Hon. W. H. B. Portman, M.P., lately presided over a meeting of the Dorset Mendicity Society, held at Dorchester, at which Lord Alington, Mr. J. Flyer, M.P., and other gentlemen were present. The Chief Constable of Dorset (Captain Autyatt) presented a report showing that there was a considerable decrease in vagrancy during the past year. AT the Borough Quarter Sessions, Margate, before Mr. H. H. S. Croft, a man named Fuller was sentenced to five year.' penal servitude for breaking into and stealing from it, Buenoa Ayres, about £lOO worth of furniture. A Ramsgate roan rained Stephen Todd, who was charged with re riving the same, knowing it to have been stolen, was discharged. AN inquest has been held at Oswestry on the body of William Owen, wst-e. !maker, who mysteriously disappeared from the town some time back. His body was discovered on the banks of the River Virniew at Llandysilis. Verdict, "Deceased committed suicide by drowning whilst suffering from temporary insanity." THE adjourned inquest on lease Hartley, John Richards, and Thomas lioseweigh, recently bnried alive at Stank Mines, has been held at the police-court, Barrowin-Furness, before Mr. Coroner Poole and the Government inspector of mine., Mr. Willis. Messrs. Lawn, Polkinhorn, and Eastbrook, mining captains, gave evidence as to the finding of the bodies and the working of ! the mines. They attributed the fall of rock to the existence eta small seam of shale running through the limestone. Verdict, Accidenial death." Air the Essex Quarter Sessions, held at Chelmsford, the Shorthorn Dairy Company recently appeAled against an order of the Brentwood magistrates rendering the company liable to pay £340 for extraordinary damages alleged to have been done by traction engines to the roads in the Billericay highway driatict. Objection was taken by the company that an order had been made dissolving the board, who were the complainants, on their own application, and the board was therefore defunct, and could not be heard. The Court helel the objection to be fatal, and qoa,hed the order. Ar a meeting of the clergy in the Consistory Court of the Cathedral, Lincoln, the Yes. Archdeacon Kaye presiding, the Rev. Canon Hole, vicar of Cautiton, near Newark, was unanimously elected Proctor in Convocation for the diocese, in the place of the Rev. Canon Mile., vicar of Bingham, Notts, who resigned in consequence of ill-health. Expressions of sytnpathy were accorded to the bishop on the indisposition of Mrs. Wordsworth. AT the Police-court, Bristol, two youths, named Cummings and Savage, who had absconded from , Kingswood Reformatory, were lately charged with breechleg into a warehouse and stealing a coat, and were committed for trial.