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News Gleanings ILSVII1UBT OF INTERESTING ITESS. *#l«rr»»kic as" Otherwise Obtaim*d ticam a Variety .t S«ure«a. A trial was made on Thursday at the Catrord track, of an electric tandem cycle, to be used for pacing purposes. » • » Praba/te has been granted of the will of Lady Greenall, widow of Sir Gilbert Greerrall. of Warrington, the personal estate being valued £11,567. • t « » 11M, Spilsby and District Liberal Association j has been dissolved "in consequence of the un- satisfactory condition of the Liberal cause in the division." « • • Ether-drinking has been revived in the Cooks- town district, county Tyrone. and a. woman has been fined £ 5 for keeping her shop open for the sale of this drug. » • • The number of lives lost during 1895 from the Grimsby fishing vessels was 42, the lowest tn record. No Grimsby vessel went dowu vith its crew during the year. • • • The judgeship from which Mr. ,JI, Chitly passes to the Lord Justiceship of Apical will rot be actually vacant tntil after his final sitting in chambers on Monday. # At Bolton County Police-court-, Walter Inglis, Darcy Lever, a well-known greyhound trainer for coursing, was fined JElO and costs for aiscaulting Police-constable Browning. The assault was committed without provocation. • The Rev. John Watson, M.A.. D.D. ("Ian ZMaolaren"), of Liverpool, has, .t is stated, been approached with a view to his succeeding the Rev. Dr. Pentecost in the pastorate of iMarylebone Presbyterian Church, London. it Over a hundred convictions for dr-mkenne^s eince 1884 have been proved against a young widow named Sullivan, who came before Sir John Bridge at Bow-street Police-court, on the old charge. The weman consented to enter I home. I Shortly after four o'clock on Friday morn- insr, great- excitement was caused by an out- break of fire at the Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, London. The flames were discovered in good time, and restricted to a vault under the pave- ment. I # • # A whale over 70ft. long lias been washed up on the beach at Bournemouth, and its disposal is at present, engaging the attention of the local coastguard. It had evidently come to a sad end in collision with some ocean liner, for its back is Droken. < < A young woman wail stepping from an omnJbns in Westminster Bridge-road. London,en Thursday, when she slipped and fell. A horse and van passed over her, and when picked up she was found to be dead. The body was taken to the Lambeth Mortuary. < A cashier named Burnett, in the employ of a Westminster firm of solicitors, Messrs. Burchell and Co., was sentenced to eleven months' hard labour at the County of London Sessions, for stealing sums of money from his employers. By a system of falsifying accounts, the accused had In tbepast eight years appropriated over £ 2,000. » "Sudden and unforeseen circumstances" is the Kason given for the sudden and "indefinite postponement" of the new play entitled "The Mummy," which was to have been brought out at the Opera. Ccmique, London, on Thursday afternoon. The authors of the piece, which la of American origin, are Messrs. Maurice E. Bandiuann and Malcolm Wallace. < Mr. R. G. Ta-tton, M.A., formerly Fellow end Tutor of Bailiol College. Oxford, has boon appointed to the wardenship of the "Settle- ment" which Mr. Passmore Edwards is build- ing for Mrs. Humphrey Ward in St. Pancras. It is hoped that the building, which is now rapidly rising in Tavistock-place, will be ready for occupation in October. < t Adolph Scholem was, at Clerkenwell Police- court, charged with forging and uttering a. bill of exchange for B55, with intent to defraud Mr Yi. Hanff. The proeecui>or said ho had be^n defrauded of over £1.300 by the prisoner. h<? latter said to Mr. Hanff at the polioe-stati 3% "1 am very sorry. I will do all I can to re- pay you." The accused was remanded. • • t A sad accident occurred at Kemsing, near Maidstone, on Thursday afternoon. Whilst engaged rabbit-shooting a boy named Percy remark, aged ten years, was shot by his father, it is alleged, and terribly injured. He received the charge in the face. with the result that one eye was completely destroyed, and the other wae severely injured. He was at once removed to Maidstone Hospital. < < <t It is stated that under the will of the late MTO. William Overend1, of West Retford Houne, legacy of J65,000 is left to the Sheffield In- firmary, a legacy of a like amount to the Royal Hospital, a legacy of £2.000 to the Jeseop j Hospital, and one of £ 1,000 to the Children's Hospital. There are also entailer bequests to charities in the Sheffield and Retford districts. • • » • A citizen of Glasgow, who does not wish his namo disclosed, has, through Mr. J. Baird Smith, writer, enven £5.000 for distribution among certain city charities. < The Victoria Jubilee Hospital Fund Belfast now totals £ 47.000. Tho Lad-? 'Mayoress has convened a meeting of women 10 aid in the collection of the necessary £100,000. < < w At the South j. ^lland (Lincolnshire) Quarter Sessions at Spalding, or Thursday, there were no prisoners for trial, and the chairman of the bench was presented with a pair of white kid gloves. Mr. Edward Tinda-l Atkinson, Q.C.. took fiis seat for the first time on Thursday, as Recorder of the city of Leeds, in succession to V J. E. Barker. Q.C., who hae retired on account of ill-health. < < At the County of London Sessione a cashier named Burnett was sentenced to eleven months' hard labour for embezzling the money of his employers, a firm of solicitors in We< mmeter, to the extent of £ 2,000. e w < w A forester named M. Mclntyre. in the employ of Sir James Colquhoun, of Luss, Dumbarton, was kicked to death by a. horse while taking shelter from a storm, at Greenfield Farm, near Garelooh Head. on Thursday. < w e e While several men employed in the Central London Railway, at Wood Lane, Shepherd's Bush, were pulling down some houses, one of the walls collapsed, injuring five men. Tiro were taken to West London Hospital. < e Mr. Andrew Barlow, a gentleman well known in Southampton, has contributed tho sum of J61,000 to the funds of the Hampshire Female Orphan Asylum, having also, on several tnrmar aocaaieas, contributed a Lke amount to VOT1VUO UUOUJiCaUiro Lu.;¡:l.c"U"1VUJ5 VUC UCl^U' bourhood. • • • • A ticket of-leave man. with fourteen months of hi* last sentence still hanging over him, wa-s at the County of London Sessions sent to hard labour for thirteen months more on pleading guilty to the theft of a> diamond pin from the person of a gentleman late at night iii the Gray's Inn-road. • • « Mr. C. S. Willard has just made arrange- inents to stare a. further American tour next autumn, so that there is no probability of his being seen en the London sb.ge again for more than a twelvemonth. Luring h.s absence he will produce new pieces by Mr. Hoary Arthur Jones and Mr. J. M. Bume. • • A meeting of nurses was held at Sc. Martin's Tc-wc-hall, London, on Thursday, to protest against the proposal to admit to the mem- bership of the Royal British Nurses' Associa- tion asylum attendants who had not been trained in general hospitals, and who wore not properly eligible for election.

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