The Northern Guardian. — 1897-11-17 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

ITEMS OF INTEREST.  On Monday the Transvaal Volksraad was prorogued. H. Lamb, Jeweller, The Illuminated Clock, Lynn Street. Telephone. 4.1.61.—Advt. The Rev. Canon Linton, of Newcastre, died yesterday afternoon. Four more Europeans were attacked by plague at Poonah on Monday. Mr Rider Haggard has purchased (life Grange, rear Lowestoft, as a residence. H. Lamb Jeweller, The Illuminated Clock, Lynn Street. Telephone, 4,l6l.—Advt. A telegram from Dundee states that Sir Win. Ingram is lying seriously at Myth. The Duke and Duchess of Leeds have returned t Hornby Castle, Bedale, for the winter. Lord Armstrong has made a donation of .tl,OOO tl the funds of the Durham College of Science, Newcastle. Every man must tell his mate, that Humphries' Hats are up-to-date. Address well known-92, Lynn Street. —Advt.  The death is announced of Colonel Robson, J P., President of the Sunderland Chamber of Commerce. , A Munich telegram says Professor Wilhelm Ileinrich Von Rich!, the well-known publicist, died yesterday. From recent despatches better relations seem to exist between Spain and the Fnited States on the Cuban question. J. Harrison, watchmaker and jeweller. watches. clocks, jewellery, and electro plate. Repairs in all branches of the trade.—Advt. Colonel Bell, of Messrs Bell Brothers, is at present making a tour of the iron-manufacturing and ore-producing regions of America. In America recently a Miss Olive Green was married to a Mr Ivory White, and by an odd coincidence the ceremony was performed by a Rev. W. Black. The Madda Khel Jirgah went into camp at Ismail Khel on Sunday, and General Bird has accepted the tribe's submission on specified conditions. Half-c Dozen best Nickel Tea Spoons given to the rerchaser of a Wedding Ring at H. Lamb's. The Illuminated Clock, Lynn Street. National Telephone, No. 4,l6l.—Advt. Mr E. IV. Beckett., M.P. for the Whitby Division, has taken up his residence at Woodlee, Virginia Water, and is having extensive alteratiens carried out. Mr R Loughtan, late of Sutton-in-Ashfield, and formerly of Peaces West, has been appointed win) has been appointed manager of the Grange Engineering and Iron Works, near Durham. Mr Passmore Edwards has offered £4,000 to Acton to build a Free Public Library and Reading Room, on condition that a site is provided and the Free Public Libarries Act is adopted. Dr Salt, Dentist, has now made arrangements for daily attendance, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the usual address, 4, Scarborough Street, Vest Hartlepool.—Advt. The General Council of the Bar have elected Mr Joseph Walton, Q.C., Vice-Chairman of the Council, in the place of Mr Justice Channell; and Mr Eldon Baukes was appointed to fill the 3.-acanCy on the Council. It is stated from Greek sources, says the Berlin correspondent of the "London Daily News," that the Czar insists upon Prince Joseph of Bat, tenberg becoming, not Governor, but reigning Prince of Crete. Buy your spectacles at the practical Optician's, from Is per pair, and suited to the sight by the Optometer. Best Brazilian Pebbles at 7s 6d per pair, at H. Tim Illuminated Clock, Lynn Street. West Hartlepool. National Telephone, No. 4,161. Advt. ' Lord Stratheona and Mount Royal, High Coinmissioner for Canada, has received an offer from Sir Squire Bancroft to give seven readings in Canada of the "Christmas Carol" in aid of hospitals in the Dominion next February. The Queen has approved the appointment of Mr , Bernard Mallet to be a Commissioner of Inland Revenue, in the room of the late Mr Thomas Browning. C.B. Mr Mallet has been acting as ene of Mr Balfour's private secretaries. H. Lamb's Aqua-Crystal Spectacles are the beat,. Try them, 3s 6d per pair. The Illuminated Clock. Lynn Street. National Telephone, No. 4,l6l.—Advt. Mr F. W. Very recommends those engaged in observing the migration of birds by ight to look through a telescope at the moon, and they will , see the birds against it, as in a Japanese picture, and learn a good deal about their numbers and flight in answer to an application for an increase ie the current rate of wages paid to colliery meAanics,the Northumberland Goal Owners' Association have offered to advance the wages by one Jenny per day. It is thought likely that the men will accept the offer. J. Hill, Snrgeon Dentist, and Chemist, 2, Burn Road (two minutes' walk from Stranton Church). A rtificial Teeth in Gold, Platinum or Vulcanite at k west charges, consistent with good workmanship.— Advt.  The sum of .C5OO has been paid over to the Treasurer of the Prince of Wales's Hospital Fund as an instalment of the contibutiou to that fund resulting from the visits of the public to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Presents, which are now being exhibited at the Imperial Institute. Lord Dimglass, son of the Earl of Home, 19 b•oked upon as the probable Unionist candidate for Berwickshire, and has been approached in view of an election. His Lordship is twenty-four years of age, and has not yet appeared to any extent on a political plitferm. Apiol and Steel Pills for Females, a French remedy for all irregularities and obstructions, superseding bitter apple, pil cochiac, pennyroyal. etc. Price its 6d, post free. Obtainable only from Martin, Foreign Chemist, Southaumton.—Advt. According to the "Paper Trade Journal" of New York, a Springfield house is making bicycles almost wholly of paper. The frame is built of I r.aper tubek, treated with ammoniacal salts and lished. They are mounted in aluminium. The / paper, in fact, takes the place of bamboo in the bamboo cycles. It is net generally known, says a London contemporary, that Mr A. H. Morton, M.P., was formerly in holy orders. He was ordained by Bishop Wilberforce, deacon in 1861, and priest two years : later. He was at one time curate of All Saints'. 1 Knightsbridge, and was appointed chaplain to the late Earl of Fife as recently as 1881. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of Elizabeth Struthers, the young domestic servant whose decapitated body was found on the railway at Fulwell, near Sunderland. The circumstances verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily deranged." peculiarly sad character, and the jury returned a of the case as disclosed in the evidence were of a A pathetic incident connected with the funeral of Lady Blount, in her 86th year, in the churchyard of the Monastic Church at Crawley, in Sessex, was that six weeks ago, on the laying the ; corner-stone of an addition to the Shrine of St. An-' thony of Padua, she asked to be shown the • cemetery, saying, "Because if I die in England i I want to be buried )ere.