Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1897-12-03 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

NEW WARSHIPS FOR GERMANY. The following esmi-official Note has been issued:— " The impending Naval Bill provides for the settlement by means 0/ an Imperial law ou the strength of the fleet, and for the fixing of a time within which the necessary new vessels are to be built. The future total strength of the fleet ia Axed at 19 asa-going ironclad, and nine cruisers, and an additional expenditure of 164,000,000 marks. The construction of the new vessels required is to be oompkted wive% yeare. The Naval Estimates will,under the scheme,' rise in seven years from 118,000,000 marks to 150,000,000 marks. The expenditure is intended to be 'net ss hitherto from currant revenue and small lositA "  move!,  An attempt was made to restart Mears. Fish's Waterfall and Priinrove Mills at Blackburn, after fourteen week's stoppage. The operatives decided on Wednesday night not to resume work in consequence of the employer.' refuaal to reinstate certain strikers. When the gates were opened workpeople assembled outside, and loudly hooted about fifty operatives who went in.  The English police have, for a long time, been busy devising methods of checking the wicked " scorchers,' laasooing them or angling for them with hooked sticke. SOlll6 American authorities have solved the problem. It is stated that the police in • park near Chicago have received orders to shoot scorchers if they cannot stop them. There can be littlo doubt that a few brace bagged in the lanes, with au occasional battue on the main roads, would retitle. cycling speed to a funeral pace.  liiiiiri-teetwiTtli-Town Council Cara-decided to oppoet. the introduction of tramways by public ownpunks, believing that any schema should be carried out ly the Council. It walla's° resolved not to procoed with the erection of a pavilion at the sea end if th.• pier, although powers have been sought to lion ow the ileceeeraiy funds, a committee being eirceted lo itseertni II the price required for the put.o.., of the Motor Gardens at present held on icioie by the town.  An ..aidoaiou of gas bee occurred in Minitel*, to the prernieee of Ideeirre. kluoro and C..mp:my, nine mot spirit merchants.. Flame' largo portion of the lootpath, and to prerelitsloi..egi to the adjacent buildinge the fire brigudo turnod out, under th 3 comivaud of the chief Con-tuhle. Tito flounce were extingundied, but si her expleeicue Luisa place, and it was not until the loot bveu cut utf at the main that danger we. averted.  As Chief Constable Ross was returning home to Ramsgate ouhis cycle, near Minster Union, he board cries for help some distance ahead. Quickly riding to the spot, lie found four peratius buried under an overturned cart. Assistance WM obtained and a doctor was sent for. When the victims were rebutted it was found that they were an elderly man named Scriven, belonging to Westgate, • young man of th• same 1111110., and a woman and a boy. They Qom. Omitted of broken limbs, but the doctor found no injury other than severe bruises and shock.  The amnia meeting or the Itundey Soeiel was held on Saturday afternoon, Canon Bartlett presided. . . _  An official statement of the impending German Naval Bull has been published, and gives particular. Of a scheme of augmentation spread over a period of seven year.. The Hon. Mr. Justice Kennedy, on Saturday evening, at the University College. delighted a uumeroue audience with a terse and lucid address an the subject of .• The Court. of Justice of Athens ind Rome.'  npeatilug at the auuual dinner of the Institution of Llectrical Eugiueers at the Hotel Cecil, Loudon, Sir J. Wolf Barry remarked that British manufacturers were now recognising that they must look to science for guidauce in trade and manufactures. By the assistance gained from that quarter foreigner. Lid gut the start of us, but he felt certain that we should soon make up the lee-way we had lost.  At a public meeting held in the Manchester Coal Exchange, resolutions were parsed importing " the right of freedom of speech in all meetings lawfully convened in the public halls of the city," and expressing indignation at the action of the authorities in prohibiting a meeting which was called for the 18th inst. in the Asaociation Hall. A committee was appointed to wait upon the Watch Committee. 3. lie (team has occurred at the Royal Mews, Windsor Castle, at the age of fifty-four, of Mr. Charles J. Phillips, one of the Queen's mounted messengers. He had beau in the Royal service nearly all his life, and preferred to remain mu his employment to accepting a pension.  Joseph Stratford, manager of the public-house, 63, nevitigtou Hill, Borrough's Gurdeue, Liverpool, has committed nuieido by means of varbolio acid. Jeremiah Mittman, laudlord of the Heil Cat, iliudley Green, near Leigh, committed suicide by mlivotiug