The Poole Telegram. — 1882-05-26 (Poole, Dorset, England)

OOO.  MR. CHARLES WILLIAM PETIT, undergraduate el Keble College, was drowned on Friday afternoon by the upsetting of a boat near Godstow. Ties PRINCE OP WALES ha S taken Coworth-park, Sunningdale„the seat of Mr. J. Arbuthnot, for the Ascot week.  THIS Queen. accompanied by Princeae Beatrice and Princeneee Elizabeth and Irene of lice, left Windsor en route for Balmor.d.  THE great fire which broke out on Thursday in the Saw Mills and carpentry yards at Lyons has resulted in damage estimated at 4,000,000 f. The yards belonged to the Socitite' des londeries de 111orme. Five thousand railway wagons, in course of construction, were burnt. and about I,Boo—some reports say 3,ooo—workmen have been thrown out of employment by the disaster.  Thic London, Chatham. and Dover Railway Company's pier at Queensborough took fire at about 4 p.m. on Friday. and was totally destroyed. AN Italian, Ciarilla Piargle, owner of a group of "fortune-telling canary birds," was fined ss. and costa, by the West Hartlepool Bench,onWedneßdaytfor obstruct. ing the footpath. £2O Is. Bd. was feund in his possession. THE O'Dotioghue, M.P. having effected a settlement of his financial affairs resumed. his parliamentary duties on Thursday afternoon, being his first attendance in the House of Commons this session.  THE Inner Circle Railway Bill of the Metropolitan and Metropolitan Districts Railway Companiee on Friday came before a Select Committee of the House of Commons. which passed the preamble so far as to give a year's extension of time for the construction of the lines. AT the Scarbro' County Court, Charles Hunt, one of the banner-bearers of the Salvation Army, was sued for £ll ss. There was a pro. cession of the Salvation Army, preceded by Hunt waving a banner. A man was driving a cart down New. boro', and met the procession. The complaint was that the waving of the banner caused his horse to shy and run away and injured plaintiff, who claimed damages.—The judge gave a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. THE wills of the following testators have been proved for the respective amounts of personalty undermentioned —Lieutenant-General Robert Cannon, late of Folkestone over £74.000; Mr. Joseph Harris, of Westootes, Leicester. undtr £35,000; Mr. Thomas Camp, late of Hatfield, Herts, farmer, over £27,000; the Rev. George Wears Braikenridge, late of Winash, Brislington, and of Cliremont, Clevedon, Somereetshire, over £24,000; the Hon. Spencer Dudley Montagu, late of Hare Hatch, near Twy. ford, Berko, over £24,000; Sir William Payne Gallwey, late of Thirkleby-park. near Thirsk, Yorkshire, oyes £9,000: and Mr. Willie Henry Lowe, late of Marlboroiali House, Lower Addiscombe-road, Croydon, over £48,000, ONE of the curiosities, and it may be added without flattery, attractions of the Grosvenor Gallery, is a wake colour painting by the Duke of Argyll. LAST week quite a crop of fine edible mushrooms was discovered growing on the roof of Canterbury Cathedral.  A BICYCLE meeting at Hampton Court resulted on Saturday in the most gigantic procession of this character that has ever been witnessed. Nearly 200 (10)3 sent representatives, and no fewer than 2,350 machines were ca liampton-green. A NUMBER of living black bass, the now famous game fish of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, were recently brought over by Mr. George Shephard Page, the president of the American Fish Cultural Association, and presented to the Duke of Sutherland. These fish, each about 1 lb. in weight. the largest that have ever before been conveyed alive a distance of nearly 4,000 miles, have been safely deposited in a suitable lake in Sutherland. A RAILWAT contractor at Crittenden, New Mexico, having brought coolies to Philadelphia to build a railway, the other labourers revolted, drove the Chinese aw ay, and hung the contractor to a telegraph pole, keeping him ens. pentled until he promised to introduce no more Chinese.  TIIE suspicious parcel which slam sent to the Duke cil Devonshire was found to contain nothing more terrible than a few geological spPcimens sent to the family. THE body of a girl named Siincoe has been found in the River Welland, at Spalding. The deceased, who was only 15 years of age, after having had a quarrel at her home, went out saying she would commit suicide. AT the Preston Sesaionsi John Mercer was charged with stealing a horse. The prisoner and another man had daringly taken the animal, value 60 guineas, from a farm. They drove it over 50 miles, and being unable to sell it, they took it to a knacker's yard, and, professing it WU diseased, had it killed, and received 158. for the skin and carcase. A sentence of 18 months' bard labour was passed.  IN consequence of the great difficulty which is now found in ventilating the St, Gothard's Tunnel, it has been considered absolutely necessary to see what can be dons to supersede steam by means of an electric railway. Siemens is to be employed to construct one. FROM the North Sea alone about 100,000 tons of fish are landed every year on our coasts, and the total supply coming into London is estimated to be equal, for the put.. poses of food, to a drove of 1,000 oxen daily. This inter. eating calculation is made by Mr. Spencer Walpole, the new Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, who was for some years associated with the late Mr. Frank Bucb land, and subsequently with Professor Huxley, as an Inspector of ffiffieries. Mr. Walpole believes that with proper arrangements' an appreciable reduction in the price of fish might be brought about, and that an immense quantity of excellent food that is now wasted might be made available for the use of the people. AT the How.street police-court lai-t week, a newspapee vendor named Thomas Jones was committed for trial on the charge of wilfully breaking six panes of glass, value £6O, belonging to Mr. Edward Dwyer Gray,