The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-02-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CENTENARIAN PREACHER.—Next month a Protestant minister. 100 years old, hopes to celebrate the 70th anniversary of his 'ministry lathe little village of Aecum, East Friesland. The centenarian, Herr Macke, is the only Protestant pastor in the Duchy of Oldenburg.  &IMMIX OP WAGES IN TEE COTTON TRILL The Central Committee of Lancashire Cotton Spinners met the representatives of the men at Manc,hester on Tuesday, and agreed to advance the wages of the operatives 5 per cent in April, and 5 per cent. in July on the men undertaking that no further advance should be asked for until March, 1881. At the half .yearly meeting of the Midland Railway Company at Derby on Tuesday Mr Allport, who lately retired from the position of general manager, was elected a director, and the sum of £lO,OOO was voted to him. It was also resolved to have a portrait of the late chairman, Mr Ellis, painted and hung in the board-room.  A supplementary civil service estimate was issued on Wednesday morning for the financial year ending next March. There is an increase in all classes, the total sum required being £553,867. The largest amounts are under the heads of the New Law Courts, £86,404; stationary and printing, £36,000; prisons, (England), £216,245; and diplomatic services, £35,170.  . . The Emperor William met with an aclident cn Satnrday, which has fortunately had no serious consequences. Corning from the Sing Academie, where he had been attending a performance, he slipped and fell down some steps, but got up unhurt. These repeated falls cause some little alarm, inasmuch as they appear to indicate loss of bodily strength. _ .  - During Monday's terrific gale a schooner went ashore near Sslcombe, and was dashed to pieces wiclin a few minutes. The coastguardsmen fired rockets over her, and one man, seizing the rocket line, was drawn on shore. Two coastguardsman stooped on the rocks to help him up, when the wave washed away all three, and only one was saved. A coastguardsman named Clements was drowned, and all the schooner's crew. Her name could not be descried, it was a long name. An inquest was held on Monday at Manchester on the body of a young man named Marsden, a clerk. On Friday he was found shot in the head in a railway carriage on the Altrincham line. He WM unconscious, and never rallied, dying on Sunday. A revolver was found in the carriage. The evidence did not show whether the case was one of suicide or accident, and an open verdict was given. The screw-steamer Henley, Captain John Udall, of London, from &sham for Rochester, put into the Tyne on Sunday, and the master reports that on Saturday morning, when off Flamborough Head the steamer was in collision with the barque Ibex, Capt. Goodwin, from Hartlepool for Whitstable, the consequence being that the Ibex was sunk. The captain and Thomas Gibbor, , the mate, were saved, but two others of he crew named Henry Oakes and Edwin (surname not known), were drowned. The Henley sustained considerable damage to the starboard bow, and her fore compartment is full of water. The steamer has been placed on the ground of Messrs Smith's dock. North Shields. ktsottemmons.—The London correspondent of a contemporary writes :—" In case any of your readers should be disposed to answer a certain advertisement in some of the London dailies offering Home employment to ladies and gentlemen' on receipt of a stamped envelope, I may say that it emanates from a company which is willing to afford employment. But the terms are, that the employed, whose services are required in order to address prospectuses, should pay their own poetages, and receive in return for their work and money out of pocket a commission of 5 per cent, on all capital subscribed and allotted through their efforts l"