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News Gleanings ESVKXJLKT OF INTEEESTINFL ITEMS. MHT»9U« MA Okttiu< frm Vmriaty tf Souress. A tender for £ 19,209 has been accepted for Hw re-building of the Royal Cambridge Music- hail. • # A lad named Cooper fell into a vat of hot beer a* the Phcanix Brewery, Heywood, and mm scalded to death. Daring the put week 77 ships have traversed lae Manchester Ship Canal, 42 inward and 35 oat ward. # On Saturday morning the greater portion of the Bishop Auckland Post-office was burned lawn. The damage done is considerable. • • • The Dnke of Westminster is said to have nur- lhiwiil East Dene, Bonchucoh, lately owned tad occupied by the late Mr. J. Snowdon aery, ex-M.P. ■» • • » A brass tablet is to be placed in Bovey Traoey Parish Church, Devonshire, to the tMMory of the late Bishop Knight Bruce, who WM view of the parish. • ♦ • • Jobn Wflliairwon (74), was sentenced to six ymmis* penal servitude at Portsmouth, on Satur- day. for defrauding a. woman of JB61, her life ■swings, under promise to marry. • • • Far travelling in a first-class carriage with a Ibird-class ticket on Christmas Eve, Mr. Itemia Isaacs, a resident of Forest Gate, was jroaecated by the Great Eastern Railway Com- tKtry, end at West Hatm was fined 20s. and costs. • • Bradtield Hall, a. capital estate between Bury St. Edmunds and Lavenham, has been pur- chaeed by the Rev. C. S. Johnston, of Plum- stead Hall, Norfolk. It was an formerly occu- pied' by Arthur Young, and the shooting is ex- cellent. • » • It has been decided that the Church Congress shall meet at Nottingham on the four days, I September 28—October 1, a week earlier tha.n waal. The guarantee fund has readied £ 4,600, md the several tub-committees have been ap- pointed. » » » » Mr. Horace B. Marshall, the publisher of the Methodist Timet* lias again given his pub- lishing profits to the Worn-out Ministers' Fund. rhe amount for ltRJb is £31C, making a. total of 63,170 given since the paper was Mist issued in 4885. ♦ » • At Crewe 00 Saturday Edward Hushes, of Llandudno, was oharged with hav ng been drunk in a railway carriage, ar.d doing damage. Prisoner arrived an Crewe from Liverpool on Friday afternoon, and fellow passengers, who were greatly frightened, complained that be- tween Edge Hill and Crewe he had smashed the windows and :nade three attempts to jump on the line while the train was travelling at » great speed. Prisoner, who was lepentant, ww fined 14s. w w A man named John Hawker, who had been many years employed at the Railway Cleanng- house, and was engaged temporarily at Christ- mas by the London «tnd North W es- ten! Railway Company, appropriated s parcel containing a rug and dther articles. The dead weight so beaviiv upon his mind that he coild neither sleep or eat, so he returned the parcel and confessed wtoat he had done. He was remanded Ai Harylebone. < At a time wh»n the air ;a full of talk about Australasian federation it is instructive to note that Queensland proposes to treat the news- papers of the other Colonies as "foreign journals," and charge «d. for every 2oz. before they are allowed to enter the colony. At pre- sent the large weekly journals can be tent from yay of tbe Australasian colonies to any other for y- By the new arrangement it will cost 5d. I t send a paper like the "Australasian" to Queensland. • • • On Saturday, at Nelson, Charles Connor and Harry Wilson, of Liverpool, were charged with loitering with intent to commit a felony, and having house-breaking implements in their pos- session. At two o'clock on Saturday morning Constable W IMikins saw the prisoners behaving suspiciously in Back Scotland-road, Nelson. He arrested them, and when searched they had in their possession a jemmy, lock-picker, file, razor-blade, and knife. The prisoners were re- manded. A disastrous boiler explosion occurred at Down's Boiler Worka, Dukinfield, on Friday eight, by which seven me i were scalded. They were removed to the infirmary. » ♦ » « For the nrst time in three years soles hare been found on the famous Dogger Bank, the ■oadt Sceptre hawing trawled up a sufficient somber to fill six trunks, which realised J360. • • • • Mr. Augustan Daly has accepted, for prcdutC- Aioo In London, America, and Canada, a. three. ad; comedy of modern life, written by Mr. Arthur Heathcote, author of "The Duchess of Bayswater and Cot" • The Baptist denomination has lost one of its most useful laymen in the death of Mr. J. B. Mead, of Brockley. He was a. member of moat ci its committees, and musical editor of "the Ccxmexiooal hymn-book. Owing to some condition of unsoundness which has become apparent in Vauxha ll bridge at the Publico end, it has been found necessary to dose the bridge to wheeled traffic, and divert the latter across Lambeth-bridge. # » » The Corporation of Sydney has decided to and its sarreyor to England to study the whole question of dealing with the city refuse, espe- cially as to the policy of burning it, and the best mechanical means of doing êO. • • The report that the Kedmsoofct Press will CMMu to fcsoe the works associated with the name of the late Mr. Williamc Morris is ait least premature. Northing whatever has been done in connection with the matter, and it;" believed that Mr. Morris made arrangements for the continuadtton erf tfie press. Its dig- penal wowld be an irreparable loss to the art ci printing. < < e Jane Mailing, a married woman, residing in Dale-street, Aoorington. was on Saturday sent to gaol for fourteen days for stealing £ 7 10s. from thebedroObl of John Forster, a neighbour. Prosecutor found the woman with some of the money in hser mouth. Three daughters of the accused were in court, and as she left 3he dock they wapt hytttencaUy, and oried out, "Mother, another, come back!" # A widow named Martha Tar lor, of South Hornsey, was summoned ait the North London Poiice-oourt for a contravention of the Infant Life Protection Act. It was explained that the babes were sent Lo her by the Salvation Army and that she was ignorant of the re- quirements of the law. Under tOO caroum- •Uujtces Mr. Pawl Taylor simply boumd hex- over to oome up for judgment if called upon. • » » • Paris is afflicted with *4 plague of rata, wiich have been driven from the river-side mad the sewers by the recent freshets. They iiave settled in the Halle* Centrales and the Palais Roy ale. but m some outlying district* they scour the streets in bodies. C • • • Ek-PodKes-constaWe Murray, of the S Division I •* aV- Pol/ who was convicted on November 24 of wilful and corrupt perjury, and sentenced to nine months' hard labour, has been released from Wormwood Serubbs Prison by order of the Home Secretary. # # An interesting relio has just found its way into the Auckland Museum. This is tha old Tower musket which was presented by George IV. to Hongi Hika, the Maori chief, who afterwards became k_.own as the "man- eater." on the occasion of his visit to England more tha.n 70 years ago. » The injection of morphine is a habit that is unfortunately on the increase anions,' the middle classes in this country. On statistics f'urnishfd by the pharmacists it is estimated that there are in Pans alone at least 50,000 victims of the marphine habit, among them 30,000 women.—"L'Eclalr." » » » # Two great favourites of London music-hall patrons, Messrs. R. G. Knowle9 and Chirgwin ("the White-eved Kaffir,") are now appearing with great success in Melbourne. The quaint mannerisms of both these artistiJhave greatiy pleased the Australians, and both hav\^ rapidly attained popularity. On Saturday at Manchester Police-court, Messrs. Sift and Stanley sant Thomas O'Neill, a porter, lodging in Angel Meadow, to prison for four months for assaulting Police-constablfe Mason and Mullen. On Friday the prisoner \v.\i ejected from a beer-house in Shudehill, and was subsequently taken into custody, He struck and kicked the officers, and owing to his violent conduct, no less than seven constables were engaged in conveying- him to the station. It was his thirty-ninth appearance, and he had been previously dealt with for assaults upon the police. ♦ » • The advocates of the legislation of merriape with a. deceased wief's sister have the London correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" understands, sufficient confidence in the favou- rable disposition towards their measure of the present Howe of Commons to contemplate introducing in that House the Bill. as amended by the House of Lords in July last if they should obtain a satisfactory poeitic-n in the ballot. It will be remembered that the Bill, I for the first time in its rather lengthened history, passed through the House of Lords last session, majorities of between 30 and 40 being obtained in its favour upon the second and third reading; • Up to 1893 grapee were raised in China for the table only. Since then experiments have been I113.de in makinf wine. whicb, so far, have resulted very successfully and as Japan now supplies the Celestials wit.h beer. we may now expect the latter to reciprocate with claret. • • • • In order 'hat the famous codices and pr-limo- sets of the Vat tear. Library may not be \voru away by use. the Library Commissioners have decided to have them phototyped. The fac- similes of the Petrarch manuscripts have already been made; later t1 be executed Terence, and aftrwards the celebrated Codex Maximus. George rfiaugnessy, a young man, was charged a.t Bristol on Saturday with burglary at tSe house of Frederick Da vies, Kingsdowa-parade. Entrance was effected through a skylight on the attic roof, the chiei or thieves having appa- rently first gained a-.cess to an empty '.iou;:e in the row, and then walked along tha leads on the roof. fehaugnetssy was remanded. Divers were engaged on Saturday in the River Avon examining the Waterford steamer Dun- brody. Mr. Armitt. who was connected with raising the Ocotava in the Thames, has the work in hand. At low tide only the apars and rig- ging of the steamer are visible.

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