The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1888-08-25 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

PROPOSED BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. —There bas jont been issued ''A Bill for Establinhing a Board of AericulWre for Great Britain," backed by Mr W. If. Smith, Mr Matthews and Viscount Lewisham. It is propoeed that the Board shall consist of the Lord Preside. of the Council, the principal Secremries of State, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the Secretary for Scotland ; the President of the Hoard to be a member of the Pricy Council g.ir ',..hr‘eriuCesZV,rul To te The powers and duties of the Privy Council tinder the Destructive Insects Act, 1977, and the Contagio. Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878-1886 ; 121 the powers and duties of the Lands Commimioners for England (wh.e ultimate abolition is contemplated) ; and It; all powers and &Aim ves.d in the Commi.ioners of her Majmty'e Works and Public Buildings under the Survey Act, 1870, The Board are also to undertake (4) the collection and preparation of statisties re/ating to agriculture, the Inspection of, and reporting on, any schools which are not public elementary schools, and in which technical instruction, practical or scientific, is given In any matter connected with agricolture, and in aiding any school which admits such inspection, and in the judgment of the Board is qualified to receive mach aid. They may also 151 make or aid in making such inquiries ann experiment., and collect or aid in colecting such information, as they may think important for the promoting the advancement of rZTerllnref. And .131 the Queen in Conncil may from time Po time. by order, transfer to the Board retch powers and duties of any Government Department as are conferred by or in pursuance of any statute, and appear to her Maj.ty to relate to agricolture and to be of an admintstrative character. - - • •  ----A MYSTERY AND A Rottancs —The dead body of a mita horribly mutilated and dismembered was found •,n the railway near Coventry, on the day after bank holiday. There was no ',mane of establishing his identity, and after the inquest the Ixely was buried as that of an unknown. ImmediaMly over the rnan's heart was discovered a long tress of woman's hair, and it was considered !hat this pointed to a romantic suicide. Whether the man went to his death is still a mystery, but by the tress of hair he has been identihed. Miss F. Thacker, a young lady of Wolverhampton, now a day or two ago a paragraph in a newepaper giving some particulars of the deceased, and slie conuded that he was William Bromley, a native of Crick, near Rugby. Bromley had for some time lived at Wolverhampton, and had been engaged to Miss Thacker, arid on Wednesday she came to Coventry to inspect the clothes and other property found on the deceased. She recognised a small microscope with which she and Bromley had of ,en amused themselves ; she alto knew the steer links which he wore f and when shown the hair the deceased had so closely Measured she found that it was one other own trWsee which she had giant him Some time ago Bromley went to work at Northampton and be premised to spead bank holiday with Miss Thacker at Wolverhampton. He did not see her. however, and she believes that being short of money he WAS walking along the railway Mtween the two towns when he W 0.9 overtaken by attain and killed.. Though this took place before the Coventry Junction with Leicealfer and Leanengton was reaehed, the train which ceased the fatality happened to be running to Wolverhampton Leveed. and portions of the deceased's body were carried on the engine tothe town where Miss Thacker vras expecting him.