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News Gleanings A COLUMN OF INTEBESTING ITEMS. V«l«ffraphic and Otherwise Obtained from a Variety of Sources. The London rehearsals for the the Norwich Triennial Festival will commence on Thu;<.tl<ty week. e 1t 1t < The Rev. W. M. Oliver, rector of Bovin^er, Essex, has given £500 towards tiie restoration oi the parish church at Chart Sutton, Kent. • ♦ » » The Queen ha« sent a cheque for £1(1 to the Rev. R. Hughes in aid cf the fund for providing increased accaauuodation at East Cowts Wtb- .eyaa Church. 1t it • it Some stabling took tire yesterday ac Cojiriti, ADd among tint debris were foiud tll81:- «la?it-d remains of a man called Browiv. I rotifer cf the owner of the premises. • # # Lord Charles Berts-ford has eoinen.ed to de- liver an address on the Navy to the memlxrs of the Newbury Guildhall Club in il e c<* u'. se of their present lecturing session. < < < < The Rev. H. Saviil Young, who for the | ast ten years has been rector of Sloutfh, climati- cally knowil as U.pton-cum-Cha\ey, iins a* en appointed Rector of Englefield, neat* I< c-wiing. The excavations at Fumess Abbey, under the erpcrutteudenoe of Chancellor l1 r: i > i i, of Carlisle, and Mr. John Hope, haw bumi com- pleted for thi- year, but they will be resumed tariy next sunaiitr. The Bishop of Exeter on Thursday COQSV- eiatecl a new Evangelical Church at Torquay. 1: has been erected at a cost of £ 12,000, and will have a parish aligned to Lt. It was opeued practically frte or debt. ♦ • The funeral of Mr. William Makepeace, ^Kiir-mastev of Rochester Cathedral, took place on Thursday afternoon. The first part of the service, which was choral, was held in the cathedral, Dean Hole officiating, ♦ » Mr. J. C. Buakiuaster, member of the Ted- dington Urban District Council, has resigned his seat, owing to what he describes uh the "waiting i>olicy" of the council iu reference to several important matters. Mr, Benjamin Edward Depledg who had for a great number of years been the superin- tendent of the Wakefield Cattle Market, and .1:;0 property agent tr. the governors of the V\ akefield charities, died on Thursday. » » The execution, of the waterside labourer, James J ores, who was sentenced to death on lu rday for the wiifullllurder of Edward White at Wapping, on August 9, has been fixed to take place at Newgate, on October 5. • W • The India, the latest and finest addition to the Peninsular and Oriental fleet, arrived in the Thames on Thur.-«lu.y afternoon, after a triad trip, in which ths highest expectations of the builders and owners were fully realised. The India,, the latest and finest addition to the Ptsniinsutar and Oriental fleet, arrived in the Thaxi-es on Thursday afttrnoon, after a trial trip, in which the highest expectations of the budders and owners wt-rs fully realised. » The Dowager Lady Ani.ptiiili's residence, Arupthill Park, Beds., has been entered by burglars. Y aluai>Ies have been stolen smuuut- ilng to several hundred pounds, including a number of gold watcher, jt-wellery, and other articles belonging to a lady guest. At EarnViuy, a penalty of £10 and costs, or two months' imprisonment, was imposed upon John HinCholiffe, butcher, of iSi11 ver-stree t, Barn;ley, who was charged with being the owner of a diseased carcase of beef which was prepared for human food. » < Damage to the extent of about £1.000 was caused by fire at the establishment of Messrs. Knox, engineers and steam-trawl owners, Lake- road, Douglas. Several other workshops, sepa- rated from Messrs. Knox's by a stone wall, also sustained extensive damage. » it At London Guildhall, Alfred Wheeler, 22, el~rk, was sentenced to four months' hard labour fee embezzling between JB60 and £70 from his employer, Mr. Johann Faber, pencil manufacturer, Loveil's Court, Paternoster Row. Ladies Isabel and Flora Douglas-Hamilton sisters of the Duke of Hamilton, have become members of the Good Templar Order, having beau publicly initiated into the local lodge a* Hamilton, Scotland, the other evening. < it < The death is announced at a ripe old age of Mr. Oliver Jones, a Liverpool solicitor of high standing, and a member of the firm of Oliver Jones, Biileon, and Co. The deceased was a proponent member of the Congregational body. • » » A man of respectable appearance, who had engaged a bed at a Leeds temperance hotel, was on Thursday discovered in his room poi- soned. On the table was found a note asking forgiveness for what he was about to do. A bottle containing laudanum was also found. • • to it 'Mr. Justice Ohitty has concluded his duties as Long Vacation Judge. He will be succeeded in that oapacsty by Mr. Justice Cave, who will attend at Queen's Bench Judges' Chambers on Tuesday next, and will hold his first sitting in Court on Wednesday, a • • Lincolnshire farmers are alarmed at the re- appearance of a dwastrous epidemic which killed many thousands of lambs in the district last yoar. The disease is of the type of influenza in human beings, and is so acute that death ensues in twelve hours. Forty- seven lambs have died in one flock of 300. e At the instance cf the Commissioner of Pojjct), Alfred Hayes, a leather seller in Malden- T-od, Kentish Town, was summoned to the Marylebone Police ooutt, London, for keeping and using his premises for the purpose of bet- ting. The defendant- pleaded gu:lty, and was ordered to pay fines of five Bummonses, amount- ing io upwards of £4'l • • • » The Cu«Ue Green Estate, Kendal, which was bequeathed to the town of Keodal by the late Mr. Alderman William Bindloss, who vas six tiMKVI mayor of that town, has t— scld for £ 6,462, exclusive of timber and fixtures. The town of Kendirf has thus received in all, ftB be- quests and gifts, from the late liayor over £ 50,000. <*<*<* Her Majesty'^ «hip Galatea, the Humber Sruardship, is to visit Scarborough next week, arriving on the 29th inst,, and stopping pro- bably for the remiinder of the week. She will proceed a little distance to sea erch morn- ing for gun and torpedo practice, returning each afternoon, and turning her three search- light/j on tiie town in the eveaings. » • • • Gounod's "Requiem," dedicated to his sou Maurice, -tricl the chief novelty at the Bristol Festival on October 15, Jws been published by iMestsrs. Metzler and Co. 'l*sero is a melan- 3Iwrr interest attaching to rhw composition, for ¡ Gounod died at St. Cloud on October 15, 1893, at the precise moment that he waa*iryai^ the JJenedwstos over on tho Diamofcrte.

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