Widnes Examiner. — 1884-12-13 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ROAD.—In the Court of Appeal, on Friday, before the I attempting to commit suicide. /some time ago, whilst ' Matter of the Rolls and Lords Justices Cotton and Lindley, working at the Widnes Foundry, the prisoner bad a fall .judgement was given in the case of the Improvement Comwhich injure] his head. On the night of the 2ad inst. he rnissioners for NewtonemMakerfield ar. the Justices of the went to his lodeings in Charlotte-street under the influence •Palatine of Lance:ter, referr d Me ineanath r 0! liquor. and at about midnight he was found by the land.; column. County lord. John Coaghan, hanging by a crap from i hook in the roadeeanhoe easamidaitnhartotande in airsri7n7g,taonndanrdnalriegbeainngturanop;heset. ceiling of his own-room. He was at once cut down and tie:i cowsroth.i•Makertielan cewas reparable by the coent and t portion of the main road within the &grid O / restored to conecionsness.—Superintendent Barker said from of Neon inquiries he had maee he was id le clined to think the prisoner ' hod no ides of killing himself, and if he would promise not Tnererorme' mtaliea jneta' each to pay half the expense of the cost. judgment of the Divisional Court was right to make any similar al tempt in future he would ask the ' ancr omelet to ba affirmed, and the appeal would be dismissed migistrates to discharge him.—The prisoner gave the pro; with c;sts. Lord Justice Cotton &wife sled that the law was ,' not very clear, but on the decision in the House of birds on mice, FARMERS'he wßansyreet AatGlrribaerrryoN. IsN EAST Calestrean.—ln , the Rochdale and Sheffield cases, lie came to the conclusion om keeping e the c ''u the nty road was a s e n E rat Cheshire meetings of farmers Move been held on soma teat in the questionliable tocionn repair.tribnte of the large estates with a view to adoptieg concerted ; the half of the cost f csoat action to obtain large rsdrictions of rent. On the Woodford L • erd Justice Lindley concurred. estate the farmers demand a reduction of 25 per cent. Mr. I SHOOTING MAC Priestnell, who is the largest tenant on Mr. Lege's estate, Grounds. TH FOR £4o.—At the Milltield Recreation / presided over anoMer mass meeting of tenant farmers at But- I , Widn es, on Saturday, a sparrow shooting match ' , ley Ash, at which it was resolved to m morialise Mr. Legh ; took place between Mr. Henry Bent, of Earlestown, and Mr. I to make such a reductioe as will enable the tenants to I James Massey, of Buttonwood, which caused a great deal of ' continue on their holdings in the pa rriehe3 of Newton, Prest- interest, both havingsa strong following of friends and I bury, Batlen, and Adlingion. One gentleman his published plenty of money behind them. The conditions were-21 I a list of rents paid on the estates of five great landlords in sparrows each. 21 yards rise and 40 fall, lez. shot, to field / that division of Cheshire, namely, Lord Vernon's, Mr. and trap against each other, for a stake of £2O aside. "Old J Legh's, the executors of the late Mr. Bromley Davenport, Sloper " found birds for Bent, and Messoy found his own. It M P., the Earl of Harrington's, and Lord Stanley of sgoes without saying that those found by "Beeper" for Man. Alderley. These gentlemen are said to possess 30,708 acres, ey to sheet at were perfect demons, but those found by with a rent roll of £62 380, or over £2 per acre. The farmers ' Massey were not half so good, which will account for the bad score ma state that the reduction of rentals in o'her counties has de by thie promising young marksman, who ceased many milk-selling and cheese-making farmers to ,aer,as made favourite at 25 to 20, which, from previous form,. emigrate, and they having introduced into their new dis- was fully justified, but so good were " Bloperes" birds that / tricts the principles of farming operations flio wed in he was thoroughly demoralised after shooting at two, bath ' Cheshire, have commenced sending intik to Manchester and of which he missed, but the next one favouring him he the other towns, of which the local dealer enjaved a killed, then mime] five, killed two, miss d five more, and , monopoly, at the low rate of le 61 per doz rn qua: te. With the match was over, as Bent never threw a chance away. I their low rents and other advantages they can better afford Shooting in good form, be killei 10 out 01 .15, to Messey's ' to consign milk at that law rate than Chesil re farmers 3, and was declared the winner. The winner shot with a new living within 70 miles of Manchester can 'at 21 61 per d zen Hammerslen's gun, by Dainteth, of Warrineton. .quarts. The agitation is at present cenfined to Mr. Legh's