British and Foreign News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 203, 22 December 1896, Page 4

British and Foreign News.

Yictorian exhibitions ore to bo held next year at the Cry-tal Palace and E;,r!\- Court. The War Office authorities refused to permit the military to take part in the Lord Mayor's Show, bey md a small pcr-onnl escort. Scarborough ratepayers have decided to spend £BO,OOO oil a, new marine drive. In England and Wales there were last year 151,31 (! convictions for drunkenness, as compared with 1.V.).-.Ui> in lsr,i. Lieut.-Colonel Eden, of Oxford, has been sent to trial on the charge of challenging a retired chemical manufacturer to tight a duel. The Liverpool City Council have resolved to promote a Pill in Parliament to buy up the tramways of the ;ity at a cost of not over £1,000,000 sterling. Herr Michael Palling, who in 1893 started a music school in Nelson, was with Mr Carl Weber, to give musical recitals at the small Qui en's Hall on Ith and l ltli November. Mr J. H. Cowoll intends to introduce a Bill into the Manx Legislature to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister. The scheme of currency reform which M. Witte was to have laid before the lius-ian Council of State this autumn, and which would have in volved the introduction of a gold coinage in completion of the restoration of a metallic currency, has been postponed, on the initiative, it is said, of the Emperor himself. The Rev. John Roscoe, a missionary who lias just returned from I'ganda, gives an interesting account of the progress being made there under British rule. Roads have been made, rivers bridged, a postal service established. and a Parliament instituted, and the natives have already become deeply attached to the new order of things. A romantic wedding took place on the 23rd October at Fochabers, Banffshire- that of Mr James Dawson, the Rliodesian pioneer and scout. The bride is Miss May Thompson, and a romantic interest attaches to the wedding from the fact that the lady was engaged to tie-late Major Allan \\ ilson, who e remains Captain l>awson discovered on the Spanganui. Several of Mr Ihtwson's Khodesian comrades attended the wedding. The announcement conies from St. John's that Sir William Whiteway is about to retire from the Premiership of Newfoundland and succeed Chief Justice Carter on the b:nch. As fatback as IMS.", Sir William talked of resignation, and be had even then rendered such service to the colony as Premier and Attorney-General that a minute in Council was pa--ed designating him for the Chief Justiceship so soon as a vacancy arose. Sir Napier Broome, Governor of Trinidad, who arriyed in London at the end of October, was obliged to have a finger amputated a few weeks previously. The effect of this and a chronic trouble had compelled him to go Home and seek medical advice. Sir Napier's death has since been announced by cable. A rather tragic sequel to a breach of promise case has occurred in Liverpool. The victim is Mr Edgar Holland, a prominent merchant and director of gold-mining companies, and the lady who attempted his life is Miss Catherine Kempshall, an actress, with whom for some years he had been on very intimate terms. Miss Keni-hall unsuccessfully sued Mr Holland for i: 10.000 damages for breach of promise, and was subsequently imprisoned for tiring a revolver at defendant's sister. She refused £IO.OOO offered as compensation, .and yesterday afternoon proceeded to her former lover's office, and shot bun in the thigh, breast and wrist with a fourchambered revolver. The wounded man was removed to the hospital in an unconscious condition, and his state is said to be hopeless. The Italian police have summarily closed the criminal career of Tiburzi, the notorious brigand. For 40 years he has ruled the Yiterbo district with hi- bands, several of which have been destroyed by the authorities, the ringleader always effecting his escape. Twice he was captured and twice got free under most dramatic circumstances. A regiment of infantry and 100 C'arabenti waged veritable war against him, culminating in a fixed battle, when the military were defeated, with the loss of an officer and 12 soldiers. Tiburzi then constituted himself the head of a local police, ruled the country side, imposed taxes, and in return kept the public peace. He nominated a candidate for the elections of 1893, and instructed his subjects to vote for him, and the result was a political victory. His death was due to the treachery of his companions. Owing to a defective ventilating place at the Wandsworth Prison, the prisoners were found insensible, and suffering from suffocation, on themqrning of the 18th October. One died next day, and a jury certified that his death was aggravated by the deceased's action in blocking the ventilators, to increase the warmth of his cell. A traveller for Johannesburg spent his last evening in England at a theatre in Southampton. His coat, containing £2896, lay over a balcony, and on returning to his seat after a brief absence, the money had disappeared. The purse, however, had fallen into the pit, and was returned next day by a working man, who was handsomely rewarded to the extent of £5.