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News Gleanings MVXKART OF INTERESTING ITEMS. ••Isfraykle a:8.4. Otkerwisa Obtained irwm a Variety ot Sources. The annual tobacco trade exhibition will be held at the Agricultural-hall from May 8 to 15. The Duchess of Teck has consented to open the enlarged hospital at Walthamstow on Feb- ruary 11. o » i Mr. De Rutzen took his seat for the first time as a permanent magistrate as .\larlborough- street Police-court on Monday. A resolution co'c^-enting to the promotion of the Leed", Corporation Water, Tramways, and Improvement Bill has been adopted by a meet- ing of pjopertv owners and ratepayers. The Queen, has seat ten brace of pheasants for the uee of patients in Guy's Hospital, and ten brace to the Hospkal for Sick Children, Great Ormond-street, Blocmsburv. At the Mansion Houre, London, Percy Allen (33) was committed for trial on the charge of forging and uttering a cheque for £ o upon Meeers. Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers. T The Holland (Lincolnshire) County Council bave decided to put in force powers for the compulsory acquirement of land at Fcsdyke for allotments. The finance committee of the council reported a balance of £ 11,074- 4-s. lid. in hand. it » it Mr. J. Whitehead has returned from the FhiHpipiae Islands, >vhere he has been investi- gating the fauna of the highlands. Among the laoveiLcies hwughi home by the well-known aaturaiist is an enormous fruit-pigeon, obtained at an elevation of 6,000ft. • » it A 9tory of a. bullock of peculiar appetite comee from Biddenden, in Kent. A farmer in that parish had a. beast which lost flesh in unaccountable fashion. It was therefore killed, and among the cuntents of the stomach were found a quantity of ^hot and nails and a skewer. Lord Mostyn has provoked a conflict with a number of sheep owners by disputing their right to sheep-grazing on the Great Orme's Head. The graziers contend that they are simply enjoying what 113 been a. right from iSmfe immemorial. Already several sh^ep have been impounded. • it it The annual children's fancy dress ball. given at the London Mansion House, took place on Monday night. Among the guests invited by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress were Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar. Arthur Bursley, of Creed-lane, and Reginald RIMeeJI, Horshajn-road, Sussex, were, at the Mansion House, London, fined 30s. each and 5" costs for travelling on the South-Eastern line without having taken their tickets. The Queen's Bench Division granted an in- juncticn, with costg, to restrain the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company from taking from the River Thames more than 24.500.000 gallons of water during any day of 24 hours, A middle-aged man, named Charles Preston, Was remanded by the Liverpool stipendiary on Monday on a charge of attempting to steal a sovereign from a publican namad :\Ja.ry Ellen Egerton, by falsely representing himself a. detective. < » An attempt ia being made to induce the Board of Trade to compel Jie railway companies whose hnes pass through the Metropolis to increase the numlber workmen's cheap trains available for the industrial classes in the morn- ing and evening. • » » Convocation of London University discussed at length proposals for the reform of its library, with the result that the facilities for lending its books have been substantially iincreased. • » » Mr. A. E. Newmann intends to present numerous specimens of animals shot by him durin~ —^ recent expedition in East Central Africa to the national collection att South Kensi -on. » » » Mr. Richard James chief superintendent of the Liverpool Post Office, haa been promoted to the chief clerkship. Mr. James has been connected with the department over 30 years. < < George More, a butterman, of 57, Turnpike Lane, Hornsbv, was on Monday fined 20s. and costs for selling butter adulterated with 80 per *ent. of foreign fat. and for exposing margarine for sale unlabelled. • it » I Mr. Thomas Garton, w'ho is stated to have been the first person to britig the news to England of the discovery of gold in Australia, died from heart-failure, at 22;, Ced!ars-coad, Wandsworth, on Monday. • m As she was on her way to the Ambign Theatre, at Paris, on Sunday evening, Madame Felix Faure had a. narrow escape. A cab ran into her carriage, smashing one of the lamps, bat fortunately doing no other damage. it it < At Brough Sowerby, Westmoreland, a retired farmer, named John Binks, 72 years of age, quarrelled with his wife in bed, and on the couple coming downstairs the dispute was re- newed- Binks hurled a. missile at his wife's head, which struck her in the face, injuring her severely. In the heat of his passion Binks was seized with a stroke of paralysis, which rendered him unconscious. and from which he never recovered, but died in two days. it » » At the Mansion House Justice-room, Lon- don, Percy Allen wais charged with forgery. A few weeks since the prisoner lodged with Mr. Jackson, a commercial traveller, and owed him nearly £2 for board and lodging. In payment the prisoner tendered a cheque for £5, receiving the difference. The cheque was dishonoured M a forgery. The prisoner, who said he wrote part of the cheque and knew who wrote the other part, was committed for trial • • it The President of the Board of Agriculture will receive a joint deputation of the Churoh Society for the Promotion of Kindness to Ani- mals and the Church Sanitary Association, asking for further legislation respecting slaughter-houses, on February 25, the Duke of Westminster heading the deputation- The Duke of Sutherland has granted the use of Staf- ford House for the amvual meeting of the Church Society for the Promotion of Kindness to Animals', to be held on Thursday, April 29. The will of the late Mr. Frederick Hill, for- merly inspector of prisons and assistant secre- tary in t he Poet Office, last surviving brother of Sir Rowland Hill, the postal reformer, has been proved by his nephew, Mr. E. B. Levin Hill, and his great-nephew, Mr. E. Maurice Hill. To each of these gentlemen the testator bequeaths £30, the residue going to hi* three daughters. There is personalty to the amount of £11,330. • • • » The Treasury authorities have just received from the Chief-constable of Buckingham a. collection of 28 coins which were recently dis- covered a<t the village of Whitchurch, through the falling in of the ceiling of an old house. They are all silver coins, belonging entirely to the period covered by the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I. The bulk of them are in a good state of preservation. The oldest daite decipherable is 1565. it < At the instance of the T/ondon County Council, Messrs. Bone and Oak, horse-elaugh- fcerers, of Plaistow. were charged at bcuthwark Police-court under the Public Health Act in respect of their occupation of premises in OH Kent-road and Tabard-street. The ix.agwtra.te, observing that the defendants thought they I could do things at whais they called a depot which they cculd not do at a. licensed yard, ordered another adjournment. • • • Some scaffolding in SauchiehalT-Taine, Glasgow, fell on Monday, and four labourers— John Mac: uulty, John L*:cherty, Alexander Macdonald, and Thomas Fitts—were seriously hurt. The injuries consisted of broken limbs and fractured skulls, and all four men had to be removed to the infirmary. » < Lieutenant Ash, of the Middlesex Regiment, was fined Be and costs at Brentford on Monday for not having his fox-terrier properly muzzled, It was stated that one day the dog hung on fur half an hour to the throat of a cat belonging to Mr. Alexander Ireland, while in another ca-e it grabbed the cat at the bar of a hotel, the cat being so badly hurt that it had to be destroyed. » The body of a coal merchant named Roberts, living in Bedford, has been found in the River Ouse. Roberts had been missing since ednesday laist. How he got int.) the water is al present not known. It is rumoured that on the previous day he made a. bet that he could swallow a box of pills, and that he won ihei bet. 7 here seems to be some ground for this story, a" on Wednesday he appeared to be verv unwell. Babouin and Balloue, the two chimpanzees given 1.10 the Jardin dM Plantes, at Paris, six months ago, by Dr. Maclaud, are in danger of death. The door of their house was carelessly* left open a few days ago. and the female caught a cold, which has developed into pneu- monia. The male, who tried to make her eat and petted, her affectionately, contracted the disease himself two days later. The savans of the museum, who have just cured a casso- wary of the croup and a hippopotamus of chilblains, licupe to save the chimpanzees. » < A handsome bra. eagle lec-terr has just teen presented to Whippingham Church by Colonel Lord Edward Pelham-Clinton, in memory of his Royal Highness Prince Henry of Battenherg. The inscription on the base is as follows, in red and blaok letters: —"To the Glory of God, and in memory of his Royal Highness Prince Henry of Battenberg. this lectern is offered as a gift to the Church of St. Mildred, Whipptcg-ham, by Colonel Lord Edward Pelmm-ClinJcon. Januarv 20, 1897." The lecterc was made by Messrs. Jones and V. iihs. of 43, Great Russell-street, Lc'ndon, and Birmingham. » » » All manner of small things go to make up the sum of human convenience in London, amongst them the practice of publicans "obliging with a stamp," on Sundays usually, but ofter- on week-days also. This illicit busi- ness has obtained such extensive dimensions that the .sub-postmasters have found their com- mission to be a steadily-dwindling quantity; consequently, some of them have made a pro- test, which has been upheld at St. Martin's-le- Grand, and publicans whose houses are in the neighbourhood of post-offices have received an intimation rhat during the hours the ofncey are open for the sale of stamps they are not to oLu.ge their customers in this way.

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