Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-06-30 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

BRADFORD TRAGIMT.—On T. ursday week, the remains of John Outhwaite, who murdered his sweetheart with a poker at Bradford on Monday week, and then, after brutally assaulting his aged father, committed suicide, were interred in the burying ground of a Wesleyan Chapel on the outskirts of the town. His vi:tim, Ruth Ingham. vu also interred in an adjoining wave. The Bev J. Colston, Vicar of Laisterdyke, read the burial servioe in the chapel over the body of the young wolftan. He said he had been welcomed there, and he should have felt unworthy of the name of a Christian minister if he had not united with them In paying respect to the young woman's memory, and giving expression to the public sympathy which was manifested. ! In face of such a terrible calamity, they must rise ab .ve every consideration, and feel that they were one upon the platform of their common allegiance to Jemus Christ. --The Bev W. Willey, Wesleyan minister, read the burial service over the remains of outhwaite. Thousands of people witnessed the interments.  was told the cost would be about £lOO. He received the following letter from Mr Buckland —" Whitehall, July 4, 1876. Sir, I have the honour to inform you that on Thursday last, in company with the Rev Dixon Brown, Mr Dickinson, and other gentlemen, I carefully examined the mill leat at Warden paper mill on the South Tyne, and that we discussed on the spot, the plans of the alterations which Mr Brown, the present lessee of the property, proposes to make. During the time that the alterations are being carried oat it will be absolutely necessary to alter the hatchway or sluice board, which the oar. servators have fixed to regulate the flow of water down the fish pass. It will also be desirable to make good the undermining of the watef at the top step of the pass. 1 am of opinion that you are perfectly justified in recommending that these works should be carried out at the expense of not exceeding £lOO, the authority to grant such expenditure having been deputed by the Board toi you as their chairman." On receiving that letter he wrote the following letter to the Rev Dixon' Brown :—" Beaufront Castle, Herhatn, July 8, 1876.—Sir,—I have the honour to annex you copy of a letter received from Mr Frank Buckland, Inspector of salmon fisheries, stating his approval of the alterations, &c., at Warden Paper Mill darn; and, in confirmity with the resolution passed at the last meeting of the Board, I beg to state for the information of yourself, and the South Tyne Committee, that I assent to the expenditure of £lOO for carrying out the said alterations." He received the following letter I from the Rev Dixon Brown :—" Unthank Hall,, Haltwhiatle, July 10, 1876.—Sir, 1 have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Bth, enclosing a copy of letter from Mr Frank Buckland, stating his approval of the proposed alteration in Warden Paper Mill dam, and farther, of your assent, as chairman of the Board, in accordance with a resolution passed at the last meeting of the Board of Conservators to the expenditure of £lOO in carrying out such alterations." That was where the matter rested, and he knew nothing more of the subject till this bill for upwards of £3OO came in. When he heard such a claim was being made he investigated the financial condition of the Board. The money in the bank at the present time was £360, and if they paid the £lOO, which they were under an obligation to .pay, the amount would be reduced to £260. The different sums they had to pay between now and the end of the financial year amounted to £335, so that, in point of fact, they were nearly £lOO short.—Mr Forster: Bankrupts.—The Chairman : No; we are not that as long as we have money. They would have to reduce their expenditure. The income last year from licenses of all sorts was £709, and this year the income was £BO3, the increase being £94; and, notwithstanding that they were £lOO short, some one had entered upon this liability as to Warden Pass; but the Board had not. The Board could act as they thought fit, but they were under no obligation to more than £lOO. (Hear, hear.)—Mr Spence said that as there was a small attendance at the meeting it would be better to leave the consideration of the matter over until the next meeting, when the members of the South Tyne Committee could be present; and he proposed a motion to that effect.—Mr D. Brown seconded the motion.—Mr McKelvin moved the following amendment : "That this Board having received a report from the South Tyne Committee of the completion of Warden Pass, resolve that the treasurer do pay to the Rev Dixon Brown, as chairman of the South Tyne Committee, the sum of £lOO, which the chairman of this Board, on the recommendation of Mr F. Buckland, one of the Inspectors of Salmon Fisheries, had assented to for alterations in the fish pass at the South Tyne paper mill."—Mr Thomas seconded the amendment, and said they had every confidence in what the chairman had done.—Mr Bolam supported the amendment, and said the chairman had always been for keeping expenses down, and no blame could be attached to him in this matter. fhe amendment was adopted unanimously.—After transacting other business, the meeting terminated.  On Monday, new public schools which have been erected in East Bedley Hope village by the colliery proprietors, were opened by Mr B. Samuelson, M.P., the senior partner in the arm. Eat Hadley Hope Colliery, which is situated about three miles northeast of Tow Law, is a new winning of the eastern portion of the Medley Hope royalty. _ .