The Poole Telegram. — 1880-12-03 (Poole, Dorset, England)

HARBOUR OF REFUGE FOR BRISTOL.  A meeting was held at the Mumbles, Swansea, on Thursday night, for the purpose of reviving the agitation for the construction of a harbour of refuge in the Bristol Channel—a proposal which has lain dormant for upwards of 20 years. The speakers enlarged upon the advantages which Swansea would derive if a sufficient breakwater were constructed at the Mumbles. The cost wag formerly estimatPd at £tiso,ooo, but it was believed £400,000 would now suffice, and toe Mayor of Swansea said there would be no difficulty in raising the money if all the shipping frequenting the Bristol Channel were taxed at the rate of a half-penny per ton per annum. It was resolved to urge the Swansea Harbour Commissioners to take up the question.  One hundred nuns have taken up reshlence at Hereford. The Wesleyan Thanksgiving Fund amounts to £294,000. Mr. R. W. Dale has resigned his seat on the Birmingham School Board. One hundred and twenty-five vessels are now ice-bound in American waters. , Two young ladies have been asphyxiated by the e,arbonic acid gas from a stove in their dressing room. By way of experiment, one of the dials of the clock at the Houses of Parliament, is to be illum,nated by electric lighting. Six vessels, forming part of the Russian fleet that has been despatched to Chinese waters, are expected to,winter at Hong Kong. The withdrawal of the large sum of 4348,000 from the Bank for the United Sntes created comparatively little impression on the Stock Markets. Lord Northbrook has instructed his agent to inform all the tenants under leases on Ilia estate that he gives them the benefit of the Ground Game Act this yeat. Jenny Vivian, a Welshwoman, 108 years of ace, who had been an inina,e of Rashleigh aluehouses, Poimear, near Par, Cornwall, for some yeate, died on Thursday. The 'Briti4th Medical Journal says it is reported that Guy's Hospital, which has 180 beds closed to the public, is £lO,OOO deficient financially on the results of the year's operations. It is stated that the Government have expressed their readiness to accept £250,000 troll the G )vernment of Natal, as a settlement in full of all claims against the colony on occount of the Zulu war. In the London Bankruptcy Court, on Friday, application was made for an order adjudicating the Earl of Perth a bankrupt. After a long argement Mr. Registrar Haslett dismissed the appbction without costs. The trial of the persons charged with robbing the Rome National Bank of about £BO,OOO was concluded nu Thursday. Taugherini was sentenced to twelve years' and two others to four years' hard labour. Hanlan, the champion sculler, has offered to row Laycock, the winner in the " Hop Bitters" regatta, for £4OO a-side, the course to be chosen by the former. If the challenge is not accepted, Hauler' will sail for home on Thursday. Nearly one hundred of the Carmelite nuns who were es pelled from France arrived in Hereford on Thursday, and took up their residence at the mansion recently occupied by the late R shop Brown, which they intend to make their headquarters. Mr. Mark Firth, the eminent Sheffield philanthropist, who has been seriously ill for the past fortnight, died on Sunday morning, a relapse having set in some eight hours previously. Mr. Firth's death will he severely felt in his native town, which he has enriched by several princely benefactions. In the course of a sparrow shooting match at Prestwich, on Tuurseley, a number of sportenen called at a beerhouse, where they had some drink. While sitting there the gun of a man named John Leigh accidentally went off, the charge entering the head of and killing a companion named Edwin Grundy. The funeral of the late Lord Chief Justice Cockburn took place on Friday. Nearly all the judges and many leading barristers were present, and the Prince of Wales and Duke of Edinburgh were represented by members of their households. The processien was of immense length, no less than sixty-three carriages following the hearse. An application will be made in the Queen's Bench division today (Monday) by Mr. Charles, Q.O , for a writ of Habeas Corpus addressed to the governor of Holloway Gaol for the release of the Rev. T. Pelham Dale The main ground of the application will be that the significavit is technic ally bad, but other grounds will be taken. An inquest was held on Friday morning in the vestry of Norwich Cathedral on Henry Jonathan Minns, lay clerk, who was dicovered hanging on Monday last in the spiral staircase, leading from the trifnrium to the clerestory adjoining the south transept. It was found that he committed suicide while of unsound mind, as he had been suffering from melancholia for some time. A dreadful crime has been prepetrated in the town of Berne. An aged couple, named Rindlisbacher, living in an isolated house in the suburb of Schaffroth, were aroused by a noise in the stable. The husband went to see what it Was, but he bad no sooner emerged into the garden than he was killed on the spot with a crowbar by a man hiding behind a tree. The wife, hearing his cry for help, rushed out, and was murdered in her turn. An old servent and a neighbour, who came to the rescue, were also killed with the same weapon. The murderer. having dragged the bodies ot his victims on to a dust heap, then entered the house, and having stolen a thousand francs from the drawers, decamped. Several arrests have been made on suspicion.