Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1896-10-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

WEEK BY WEEK.  Heavy snowfalls have occurred in Durham and at Plymouth.  Severe weather is reported at sea, and several vesssels have been wrecked.  Five ricks and three cottages were destroyed by an incendiary fire at Farthinghoe, near Banbury.  The interment of the remains of the late Mr Byron Reed. M.P ,took place at Bradford on Saturday.  "Separator of two fighting bulls," is the name which is now given to Mr Rhodes by the Mate.bele.  It is said that the Emperor of Russia received over 500 threatening letters prior to liis journey to France.  American newspapers are making an indignant protest against the sending of Armenian refugees to the United States.  The late Lord Congleton VMS chief of the Par nells, and was a cousin of the late Irish leader, Mr Charles Stewart Parnell.  Saxton Church, near Tadcaster, waa struck by lightning during a brief but sharp storm which passed over the village on Saturday evening.  During the past fortnight the Clyde shipbuilddera have booked oontraota for 55,000 tons of new vessels, including 20,000 tons of Government work  President Kruger and his executive do not consider Dr. Jamezon's sentence severe enough to warrant interference with a view to ita 'eduction.  The death is announced at Edinburgh of General William Cavage, at the age of 94. lie is understood to have been the oldest filoer in the army.  The Preddent of the Board of Trade (Mr Chaplin) has arrived in London from Scotland. and will this week visit Lord and Lady Londonderry at Wynyard Park.  Letters from Maclaga.scar state that a condition nf things nearly approaching anarchy has asserted it,self in that island It is stated that the French will practically have to reconquer the  A widow, named Mary Oddy, aged 61, of Bridge-street, Bury, comuaitted suicide by cutting her throat with a razor in the presence of her bedridden daughter. The latter was so over come with the shock that she died an hour lattr.  An infcrmal meeting of the members of the Tynemouth Town Council to arrangs the matter f,f the Mayoralty W 8.3 held this week. when it was resolved that a deputation should wait upon Earl Percy to invite him to accept the poeition for the ensuing twelve months.  The report of thy Committee of the New Zealand House of Representatives on the affairs of the Bank of New Zealend states that the cr'sis which arose in IPBB was dtrtctly traceable to trrors of judgment and to gross mismanagement on the part of directors and cfficers of the bank amounting to criminality.  On Tuesday %new wing of the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary wa.; opened for the reetption of patients. Tho whole cot of its erection. which ha 4 bepn bcrne by Mr Walter Evans, amounted to £12,000. The wing is inttnded as a memorial of Mr Evans' late wife, and is to be cAlk,d the Susan Evans wing. It will contain 42 beds.  An oxtraordinary robbery was reported to the Liverpool police on Saturday. One cd the patscengers by the African steamer llonny was taking out £5OO in gold, whioh waer in a leathe:. bag. This he placed in his berth and left for a few minutea. On returning he found that the beg had been cut open with a knife and the coin extracted.  The Rev. Dr. Marshall Randles, Fresid.yit the Wesleyan Conference, addressed a missionary meeting in Leeds on Monday. Ile combatted the argument that it was uncle:is to continue the efforts to spread Christianity throughout the woild, pointing out that the spread of civilisation had been equally as slow as the spread of Christianity.  A shocking accident occurred at Southsea on Tuesday. Thomas Good, a dentist, of Portsmouth, and his wife ‘vero driving in a trap, when the horse belted. colliding with a lamp-pest Both the occupants were thrown out, Mrs Good being killed on the spot. Her Lust-quid sustained a oomFound fracture of the /um and scvero cuts about the head.  In the course of his charge, delivered on Toes day at the triennial visitation of the diocese, th.! .lop of Liverpool touelad upon the wants of the dioce-3e. He said they wanted a cathedral worthy of the greet city of Liverpool. In this respect they were far worse off than the new dioeesee of Wakefield and Newca.stle, each of which bad a tine church to begin with.  An alarming landslip took place on Mot:day in the shipyard at one time occupied by Mews Denny. at Dumbarton. The breast ef the yard collapsed, and took with it several building 4 and a otumney stack about a hundred feet high. Many tons et sand were carried into the channel of the River Leven. which 14 completely blocked. Owing to the disturbance the shipyard presents an extraordinary appearance, and the damage will be