Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1896-11-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CANDIDATES FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. 1, Mr Philip Calderon, R.A. ; 2, Mr Briton Riviere, BA.; 3, Mr ,ILI Prinsep, R.A. 4, Mr U. F. Watts, U.A.; 5, Mr W. B. Richmond, BA.; 6. Mr W. Q. Orchardson, BA.; 7, Mr Alma Ilideina, R.A. The portraits of those whose candidature waa advocated from time to time are given above, but their supporters have been disappointed, the selection aiming in the nature of a surprise. Mr E. J. Poynter, the pre,sident-elect, was born in Paris, He was educated at the Westminster \ School, Ipswich Grammar School, and the Royal Academy. He exhibited at the Academy when only 26 years of age. "With Israel in Egypt" and the "Catapult" he made his mark. Ho was Slade profeesor for rive yeo.rs at London Univer• Lily,  Major-General Sir Francis Scott, in command of the forces at the Gold Coast, left Liverpool on Saturday in the Loanda for the Gold Coast, his leave of absence having expired. Telegrams from several departments in Franc( report further floods, and an alarming rise of thP rivers. The loss of property is enormous, On no accident to life or limb is stated.  Mr H. M. Bompas, Q.C., has been appointed County Court judge of the Bradford and associated districts, in succession to his Honour Judge Gates, who recently resigned.  To celebrate his Mayoralty the Right Hon. W. L. Jackson, M.P., and the Mayoress entertained the employees at Buslingthorpe Works in the Albert Hall, Leeds, on Saturday evening.  Professor Somerville on Tuesday read an important paper at the Durham College of Science. Newcastle, on the result: of experiments he has heen making in agricultural matters during the past few years.  The Retrietrar-lienerars return for the week ending Saturday last shows the average rate of mortality to have been 19.7 per thousand. The rate in Newcastle was 20.4, Gateshead 18, Hull 19.4, Leeds 19.7, and Sunderland 17.1.  John Cooper. 75 years of -age, formerly a carter, and an inmate of the Almshouses at Wakefield, has committed suicide. He was found lying in a pool of blood on the floor of his house with his throat cut, a razor being close at hand.  Colonel Rhodes, brother of the ex-Premier of Cape Colony, sailed for South Africa, somewhat unexpectedly, by the Norham Castle, on Saturday. He was one of the Johannesburg "Reform" leaders sentenced to death by Judge Gregorowski. In punishment of Li Hung Chang, for having ventured into the Summer Palace on a visit to the Empress Dowager, the Emperor of China has ordered him to lose a year's salary. enemies advised that he should be deprived of all his offices.  --A meeting of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England was held on Wednesday in London, the Duke of York (president) being in the chair. It was announced that the profit on the Society's meeting at Leicester in June last was about £3,500.  Tlyt Primitive Methodist Chapel in which the late Rev. C. H. Spurguon'q conversion i 4 reputed to have taken place is wited by such large numbers of people from various parts that it ta proposed to place a tablet on the wall above the seat which Mr Spurgeon is said to have occupied. --  Sir T/ichard Temple, who supervised the relief measures adopted during the last great Indian fatuine. in an interview, stated that at least onethird of India seems now threatened with scarcity of wheat, but this, he comn“ers, may not develop into famine should rain fall during November. ados  --A hint as to the means which might be to put down the lowest forms of sweating"- is to be found in an amendment to the New York Factory 111:43esecion Law. This Act provides that ity artieleys made under unclean or unhealthy oonditions must be branded as such by the in.4pectors. Labour in China is in a primitive state. The salt wells which are being worked afford an instance of this as well as of the enormous wealth of the oountry 'Vet only partially explored. Under ---esetat conditions a well sometimes takes twenty years to sink, and the brine is laboriously hauled up by buffalces. An inquest was held at Hull on Monday on the body of Henry linluny. Deceased was a lighterman, and on .unday was assiesttug to remove his vesel in the Alexandra Dock. A thunderstorm compelled hint to seek shelter, and afterwards he was found dead on the floor of the forecastle, he having been struck by lightning. --Last Monday Mr Sidney Webb, whoxa knowledge of the conditi9n of labour has been gained by years of painstaking and original research,commenoed a Fence of Qat*, courses of six lect urea each on "Some Problems of Trade; Unioeieen " at the London School of Economics, which is the only institution of its kind in the country. In the Chancery Division on Saturday Lord Yarborough obtained an interim injunction to r:sstrain Lord Lonsdale front selling foxhounds forming part of the Quern Pack. Counsel said Lord Lonsdale was selling the whole pack, although according to agreement with Lord Yarborough he was bound to return two dogs to the latter. An inquest was held on Tureday on Alice Barugh (17), domestic sermant, employed at Hub dockstones Grange, .Markington, near Ripon, who committed suicide on Sunday by drinking carbolic acid. It Wail stated that the deceased had been strange in manner since an attack of influenza, and a verdict of "Suicide during tern- insanity" was returned.  \ • •;. • : t'• • : • , / 7 / 4 •S; ec, ,  "..' t I.*7#l\ A 46c ///1 ( 1 .\\ 1 t 1 \\ .41°Pe‘le.'' ))  .. . . •., • ' ..da ' ' . , 1.. i •a • I 1 \:. eggift . , , ~.07 • s unia ,1-0 ,-. -- - __--~  THE ACTUAL DARK lANTERN  . \ ,j); f. • 4 , i/.1 1 , 6' • < I -/ t „IV •Ce \bk \ .11 AO 7. • 6