The Poole Telegram. — 1881-03-04 (Poole, Dorset, England)

FATAL ACCIDENT. -On Saturday night a married woman named Millett WWI killed at New,dreet station, Birmingham. Just as tly, train was starting she jumped out of the carriage to find her husband, whom she thougl t had been left behind, and, stumbling, fell Leta een the platform and the train, her body being cut through and fearfully wangled. The report of the Great Western Railway Company was issw dOD Friday. It states that the revenue of the past halt-year amounted to £3.589338. being £56,000 more than in the corresponding period of 1880. The expenditure was £1,814,383, or £39,247 won.. The balance, after paying preferential ibarges, is £428,732, and after providing a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent., a balance of £25,729 will be carried forwaid The diminution of rec.ipts owing to the great enowstorm is ei timated at £50.000.  A powerfully argomentAtive "memorandum by Sir Glai net Weiseley, detrecating the retention of Candahar. erpears in the Blue Book on Afghan ttffairs. issued on Friday. Sir Garnet terms Ginelabia "a sshte elephant capable of ruining our Indian Empire by the cost which the necessity if supporting it would entail upon us." No military advantage. he adds, would be secured by retaining it; on the contrary, we should incur considerable military risks. The Duke of Cambridge has also forwarded a paper, which supports the views el the "forward" party. A deputation of Scotchnien, headed be the Duke of .Sutherland, waited on the Secretary for War on Wednesday, and present-A a petition for the retention of the tartan dress hitherto worn by the Highland regiments. Mr. Childers, in reply, raid it had never been his intention to abolish distibetive tartans, hut when it became necessary to consider whether larger regiments should not he substituted for the linked battalion system, they had to consider how, without making unnecessary changes, they could form legiments with the same uniforms out of the existing battalions A case of cruelty to a horse came before the county magistratis at Bradford on Thursday. A farmer and an innkeeper, eccumeis of adjoining field-, had a dispute about a horse, which one had contracted to buy and the other to sell, and an appeal we made to the County Couit Judge to decide in whom the ownership of the animal was vested. The farmer was declared to be the owner, bet he turneu the horse out of hi.; fl:bi into that of the innkeeper, the result being that it was kept without food for fifteen days. The dismitants were both now charged with cruelty, but only the fai mar was held to be guilty. He was comitted to whiri, for two months.  - The Rev. Benjamin Speke, Vicar a Dowlish Wake, Somerset, committed suicide in Wednesday morning by drowning. His wife died on the previous day. Mr. Speke was the clergyman whose mysterious disappearance innue years ago caused so much anxiety. Som., weeks after his disappearance he wets discovered in Cornwall, employed as a c We drover. Mr. Speke was the brother of the late Captain Speke. the African explorer. The inquest on the body was held at Wakehill-house on Thursday. The medical attendant expressed his belief that distress and unr•st, occasioned by the death of his late wife. t whom he was fondly attactied, so affected the mind of Mr. Speke that he became insane, end while in in that state ‘o mind he committed suicide. The jury retu.ned a verdict to that effect.