Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1895-05-25 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

ROUND THE RIDINGS.  The Hull corn millers advaneed the price of flour On Wednesday ls. per sack of twenty stones.  In spite of foreign oompetition, • lays the Eastern Morning News. the cheep trade in the East Riding is very satidaotory. Grazing sheep are much dearer, and this is accounted for by the present demand for lean meat. Major and Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel G. R. Hamilton, of the lit Volunteer Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, has resigned the position of supply and transport officer to the East Yorkshire Volunteer Infantry Defence Brigade, which he has held over two years. On Wednesday the body of a young oommeroial traveller of York, named Giles, was found in a disused chalk pit near Sutton station. The head wee shattered, and, a dieoharged revolver being found by the side of the body, it is evidently a case of suicide.  The North Eastern Railway Company intend to increase the shed sooommodstion for the fruit tntde at the Albert Dock, and have now given instructions accordingly. A dog which gave signs of hydrophobia at Doncaster on Saturday was killed in the street with an axe.  Yorkshire is the °minty in England which has the greateat railroad mileage. The next is Lanoashire.  A stray dog, supposed to be mad, was shot at Skipton, after biting several other animals. At Rajahley, Sarah Leonard, hawker, was charged with neglecting her two children, and committed for three months, the obildren to remain in the workhouse.  At a meeting of those engaged in the Bradford and district leather trade it was decided to advance the prices of all leather for mill purposes to theextent of 25 per cent. for the present. The Leeds Sanitary Committee are consulting with the Local Government Board as to the best means of putting into force the decision of the City Council to clear away the Camp Field insanitary area.  It is estimated that after the destructive hail storms and bitter north-easterly gales of Wednesday week and suoceeding days, fully 60 per cent, of the fruit crop of Yorkshire has been I destroyed.  At Wakefield Wm. Briggs, farmer, we oonvicted of assaulting Florence Ellen Garnett, assistant teacher at 81. John's School, and also of assaulting Albert Marsh and Vivian Tansby, two boys 7 years of age. Defendant was fined £2 68. 6d. in all.  The Mines Stanfield, of Hallolt Hall, near Leeds, were summoned before the Bingley magis. trates by Thomas Bottomley, soveyor to the Outer District Council, for not repairing a portion of the Keighley and Otley Road. In consequence of the liability being denied the Bench referred the ChM to the Assizes.  A boy, four years of age, named John Ivee, ran in front of an electric oar in Roundhay Road Leeds. The lad wits knocked down and dragged some distance by the road guard. He wee taken to the Infirmary, where it was found that he was little the worse for the aboident.  The Buxton magistrates on Saturday decided that a tame seagull was not a domesticated animal within the meaning of the Act. At a meeting in York Guildhall on Wednesday night, it was decided to hold a "Lifeboat Saturday" on July 27th. At Doncaster on Wednesday, William Poppleton was charged with causing the death of hie father, on whose body an inquest we. held on Tuesday, when it was stated by a witness that prisoner struck his father and knocked him down, death ensuing. Prisoner was remanded bat admitted to bail.  The Bishop of Ripon is to oommenoe his trien• nial visitation at Leeds on June 6, and he will deliver charges at seven centres in the diocese, liniehing at Ripon on June 14.  The dab of the Beverley horse show has been altered from Wednesday, July 10th, to Tuesday, July 9111.  The new golf links which have been recently laid down at Upgang, near Whitby, were on Wed. neaday formally opened by Mr. E. W. Beckett, M.P.  Two Wakefield boys, who have apparently acquirer' a taste for adventure through studying literature of the "penny dreadful" type, have this week disappeared from their homes.