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EPITOME OF NEWS. William Marrow, aged three, the son of a collier, of Standish, near Wiean. fell into a bath of boiling water and died later. Large crowds of people witnessed the funeral of Admiral Sir William Luard at William. The funeral cortege was nearly a mile iu lepgtli. Over 400 justices of the County of London at- tended a specially-convened county day meet- ing. heid at the Sessions House, Newington. to pass resolutions of sympathy with the Queen Mother and King George V. The Board of Trade inquiry was opened at Liverpool into the loss of the sailing ship Kate Thomas on April 4, whereby 17 of the crew and two passengers were drowned, an apprentice being the sole survivor. A Stoke-on-Trent lady who witnes.sed the royal funeral procession in London tells a story of"a dastardly act which was perpetrated while the cortege was passing, a girl about 16 years of age having her hair cut off. The hair, which had been done in a plait, was cut just below a ribbon that held it near the nape of the neck. A verdict of "Wilful murder" was returned i at an inquest at Hanley on Mary Arimtt, aged 51, and the woman's husband, William Armitt, an ex-soldier, was committed for trial. It was stat.ed that Armitt cut his wife's throat with a bread-knife after they had been sitting with their arms round each ot.her. At Coalpit Heath, near Bristol, three de- serted chickens arc being well cared for by a cat, which is also rearing two kittens. A baker in the Army Service Corps named Joseph Andrews was overcome by the heat at South sea. and died within a few minutes. The Rev. John Corcoran, parish priest, of Knock, was fined 2s. 6d. at Bally ha unis, Co. Mayo. Petty Sessions for assaulting Tobias I Kilkenny, of BallyhowJcy, Knock, or March 20. Ten thousand women suffragists will march I from the Embankment on the evening of Satur- day, June 18. to the Albert Hall, where a meet- ing will be held to demand votes for womc". The boys* school at Sholing, Hr.nts. ss :0 be converted into a girl's school at a c("t 0, L23.J, and the girls' and infants' school, ililC a boys' school at a cost of £Ö50. A new infant school is to be erected at a cost of £ ;>,3<80. While cycling against a head wind at Abber- ton, near Colchester, Mr. Benjamin Heard, a fish merchant, of Tollesbury. was seen to dis- mount and immediately afterwards fall to the ground. He died before being picked up. The Registrar-General's annual summary shows that the birth-rate for last year, 25.6 per 1,000 of the population, was the lowest on record. In all there were 914,621 births. Had the rate been equal to the average for the pre- vious ten years the total number of births would have been 993.284. or 78,663 more. The University of Edinburgh has conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Com- mander Peary. Judge Will. of the Birkenhead County-court, has died at his residence in Liverpool at the age of sixty-eight. Stories by Eden Phillpotts, Arnold Bcrrett, and Max Pemberton are at present running as serials in Paris daily papers. Mr. W. H. Lever, of Lever Brothgrs, the great soap manufacturers, has given £[)_OOO to the central fund of the Congregational Union. At Messrs, Puttick and Simpson's rooms ;L-ill was realised for an 1854-5 [our annas blue and reel postage sta.mp of India with head inverted. The King has conferred the Royal Victorian Order on the officers belonging to the foreign regiments of which King Edward was colonel who came to England for his Majesty's funeral. A skating rink and electric theatre has been opened at Colchester. It is the first place of amusement, the city has had since the abolition of the old theatre more than half a century ago. West Hartlepool Unionists, at a largely- attended meeting, decided to invite Mr. Howard Gritten. who opposed Sir Christopher Fumes* at tlye General Election, to contest the seat again at the forthcoming by-election. The funeral has taken at Charlecote, Warwick, of the fifteen-year-old son and heir of Sir Henry Fairfax Lucy. Bart.. of Charle- eote Park. the boy was taken ill at Eton, and died after an operation for ap}KMidicitis. The King. on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, has approved of the re-con- stitution of the Royal Commission on Y ines for the purpose of an inquiry in to the health and safety of persons employed in metalliferous mines aud quarries. Mrs. Eliza Blackburn, the oldest woman in Don- caster, has attained her 100th birthday. Mr. Lloyd-George has promised to speak at a valedictory service at the Old Hanover Chapel, Peckham, which is to be turned into a cinemato- graph theatre. Special tramcars with half-fares are to be pro- vided by the L.C C. for members of the South- wark Institute going to and from their cricket ground at Dulwich. Hundreds of gas-jets, said a police-inspector at a London fire inquiry, are left alight all night in City warehouses owing to negligence by em- ployees. As a result of a dispute between the local life- boat men, who claim pay for a launch in February, and the National Lifeboat Institution, the Broadstairs lifeboat was removed from its station and taken in tow by a tug, which left for Lon- j don. | Forty-eight pounds was paid at Sotheby's for a first edition of Bronte's 11 W uthering Heights." The London County Council's proposal to take I over Finsbury-square garden in trust for the en- joyment of the public v was rejected at a meeting of leasehpldera and occupiers of houses in the square at the City of London College. An anonymous gift of E2,000 for the extension of the premises of the Union Jack Club was re- ported at the annual meeting in London. The annual report of the Intelligence Division of the Board of Agriculture, dealing with proceed- ings under the Food ana Drugs and other Acts in 1901V mentions that the principal chemist of the Government laboratories reported the presence of 3 per cent. of paraffin or petroleum oil in two samples of margarine taken at a factory by the Board's inspector. M. Muuratieff, Chief of the Moscow Secret Police, has been murdered with a revolver by an Anarchist named Cfiouravieff. It is stated that Chouravieff was wanted in connection with the murder of a St. Petersburg police official, and that M. Mouratieff had directed the pursuit. On the Enchantress arriving at Greenock from Pembroke, the First Lord. Reir-Admiral Sir John Jellieoe, and Captain E. C. Troubri.ige landed in order to visit Messrs. Scott's shipbuilding yard. They afterwards motored to Goran and visited the Fairfield yard and works. Next they proceeded to the yard of the London and Glasgow Company and inspected the cruiser Yarmouth.

OUR LONDON LETTER.

WOMAN'S STRANGE DELUSION.…

INJURED BY BOILING TAR.I -!

CAPTAIN'S HEROIC DEATH.

FIVE YEARS FOR TWOPENCE.

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