Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-03-07 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  The Khedive contemplates a visit to the Sultan. The date has not yet been fixed. Several suspected eases of yellow fever have oocurred at Belgrano a suburb of Buenos Ayres. Lord Ashburton has given instructions for the male of the whole of his freehold sporting and agriaultural estates in Wiltshire, comprising nearly 10,000 acres of land. The stock of bullion and coin in the Bank of England, which stood at £48,314,300 at the end of January, has increased to £49,116,000, and the total reserve from £39,828,200 to £40,996,700. A wornau named Price has died at Truebrook, Liverpool, through a piece o forange lodging in her windpipe, and so choking her. The profit, on coinage of silver and bronze is at present prices more than sufficient .to cover the whole expenditure of the Mint. Only 1,7.54,941 acres, or 2,742 square miles, out of the 195,882,000 acres, or 306,095 square exclusive of water, forming the area of New South Wales, are under municipal government. The capital and annual values of rateable property in New South Wales, under municipal government, for the year ending February, 1896, were £136,202,100 and £7,895 645 respectively. A boy named George Golding, aged six years, son of a Blackheath gardener, has died in Guy's Hospital, London, from hydrophobia, set up by his having been bitten by a dog six weeks ago. The brigands who, for some time past, have been infesting the country in the neighbourhood ot Papho, Cyprus, have been captured by the police, the leader of the gang being shot. Mr. Justice Mathew on Tuesday completed the 15 years' service on the Bench, entitling him to a retiring pension, as he was appointed a judge on the 3rd of March, 1881. The Berlin Localauzeiger learns from Constanti nople that at Russia's request the Porte wil betore long expel from Asia Minor all English anii American Missionaries. The statement is alleged to come from a ti ustworthy source.  A " sextuplette " cycle, to carry six persons in tandem, has made its appearance on the boule yards at Antwerp. It is of French manufacture, and its length is 14ft., the weight being 1581bs. At the inquest on the body of Alderman R Carter Revell, Mayor of Saltash, on Monday, the evidence showed that he died from an overdose of morphia, taken by misadventure, and a verdict to that effect was returned by the jury, Philip Nicolle, market inspector at St. Helier, was on Monday sentenced at Jersey to two years' imprisonment for embezzling £5OO. Nieolle absconded to England, but returned and gave hiniselt up. It is reported that the next army manreuvres will witness the movement of no fewer than 40,000 men—a number without precedent in connection with military manceuvres here. Both the Militia and the Volunteers are to have part in them, though to what extent has not yet been decided. Fall River claims the smallest voter in the United States in the person of James Gardner, who is only 32 inches tall. He was born in England in 1870, and went to America in 1880, since when he has worked in a mill at Fall River. The trial of the man Jean Tremblie, accused of having murdered and cut to pieces a man named Farbos, whom he had induced to join him in a fraudulent trade in Argentine copper money, concluded before the Assize Court at Douai. Tremblie was found guilty, and sentenced to death. All bin Abdullah, an influential Pemba Arab, has been sentenced by the Judge of the British Court at Zanzibar to seven years's imprisonment, a fine of 5,000 rupees, and subsequent deportation for gross cruelty to his slaves. An explosion occurred on Sunday in a secondclass railway carriage at the Saint Andreae railway station at Helsingfors. The carriage was completely wrecked, and two persons were killed and seven injured. It is supposed that ono of the passengers had dynamite in his possession. The Education Department have issued a circular to local authorities in which they state that the certificate of registry of a child's birth may be accepted as evidence of age for the purpose of the issue of a labour certificate under the revised regulations of the Department. The distinguished singing teacher, Mr. Manuel Garcia (now in his 91st year), has relinquished the professional duties which he has fulfilled in connection with the Royal Academy of Music for close upon half a century. A night watchman named John Thorpe has died in the Ashton Infirmary as a result of a severe  scalding he received on *Saturday evening. With some other men he was cleaning a boiler at the works of MCBBl'B. Milburn, Stalybridge, when all were scalded. One of the oiler men is in a precarious condition.  William Hodgson Barfoot was remanded by the Guildford borough magistrates on Monday, on a charge of stabbing his brother, Edward Barfoot. It was stated that the injured man would not be able to appear for three weeks. Since his arrest the accused has frequently referred to the kindness his brother had always shown him. A sad case of attempted murder and suicide is reported from Lye, near Stourbridge. It is alleged that a widow, named Allport, with her child in arms, jumped into a deep well, but afterwards raised cries for help, which were heard and attended to. The rescue, however, occupied a long time, and the woman is now suffering severely , from the effaete. SAVE time and expense by sending your orders for printing to the Minster Press, Beverley. Good workmanship guaranteed.