Beverley and East Riding Telegraph. — 1896-02-22 (Beverley, Humberside, England)

THE ASHANTI EXPEDITION.  All the sick on the hospital ship Coromandel, which arrived at Las Palmas Cape Coast Cdstle, are reported to be doing well. The troops on the Manila, which is also homeward bound from Ashanti, are in good health.  The following information, dated Feb. 17, has been received at the War Office from Colonel Scott, Grand Canaries :—" Manila arrived here 14th, one officer and 26 men sick, no serious case. Coromandel arrived Feb. 16, 11 officers and 56 men sick. Following deaths: Sergeant Richards, Ordnance Store Corps, Feb. 13; 2,041 Private Smith, Feb. 8, and 2,736 Private Whittaker Feb. 16, both 2nd West Yorkshise. Manila sails today."  The proposed cruise of the Channel Spuadron to the Canary Islands and Madeira has been abandoned, as a result of the decision of the Admiralty to commission the torpedo flotilla attached to the Fleet. . .  .„.. The Board of Trade report has been issed concerning the collision on January the 3rd, at Eglington.street Junction, on the Caledonian Railway. A train from Glasgow ran into a light engine, which owing to a mistake of the driver, had been allowed to ruu forward foul of the junction. Both engines were damaged, but there 14 as no injury to passengers. The report finds that the driver of the light engine mistook the signals, and he alone was to blame for the occurrence. A case of suicide froni excess of chess•playing occurred at Kieff the other day. An accountant conceived such a passion for chess that his business capacity fled him ; he threw up his occupation, and from that time he could take no interest in anything but chess•playing. He played the whole day long. A melancholy disposition settled upon bin], and at last traces of a disordered mina set it. He bought a cord a month ago, and carried it about with him till an opportunity arrived, and he then hung himself. George Skelly, a Berwick butcher, consumed, it is stated, the contents of a bottle of whisky against time to decide a wager, and died shortly afterwards. As, however, he showed symptoms of poisoning, the contents of the stomach were analysed by Dr. John Hunter, the public analyst of Edinburgh, who reported that the stomach and intestines showed no trace of poison from acids or alkaloids, and he attributed death to alcoholic poisoning. A verdict to this effect was returned, and the men Oliver and Herbert, who accepted the deceased's wager, were severely censured by the  jury. On the invitation of the Motor Car Club, a number of members of Parliament and other public men, accompanied in many instances by ladies, attended at the Imperial Institute, London, where a demonstration of the practical utility of auto cars was given on Saturday afternoon. Four types of the new form of vehicle were shown, three of them having petrolctun for motive power, and the fourth being propelled by electricity. The Royal Commission on Vaccination promises to beat the record in the matter of lengthy sittings. Appointed in 1889, ito mission is still incomplete. An interim report was agreed to in 1882, censuring the imposition of repeated penalties in respect of non-vaecinatioti.