Mail News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 30, 4 August 1894, Page 4

Mail News.

O Prom the latest English files to band we take the following interesting *tbms :— The Mayor of Gloucester forwarded to Balmoral a lamprey pie as a birthday gift to Her Majesty. The pie weighed 3 lib, and was accompanied by two silver skewers bearing the city Arms. > The. body of the late Mr Edmund J Yates was cremated, and the same day the ashes of her husband was banded to his widow. Queen Elizabeth's "Pocket Pistol," as the formidable cannon on Dover Cliffs overlooking the Channl is called, has been removed to make %ay for a modern battery. The gun was presented to Queen Bess, and its well-known inscription ran : "Load me well and keep me clean. and I'll carry a ball to Calais Green." A silver cradle has been presented to the Mayor of Berwick. There have been 703 mayors of Berwick, and no previous one had an increase in family while in office. Mrs Huhges, the local carrier, has il|ea in the cottage at Hawarden in j wi^icbehe was born. She was the j same age as Mr Gladstone, by whom , she was much respected. Four times , weekly for hall a century she had ' made the journey by road to Chester, a distance of 14 miles. Mrs Gladstone wrote, regretting the loss of their " dear friend," and just, before the funeral Mr Gladstone telegraphed to the relatives " Our though to are with you." Owing to the difficulty of catching cyclists who indulge in furious riding, the Home Secretary has intimated that it may be necessary to make it compulsory for them to a wear registered number conspicuously displayed. The Albert Palace, in Bftttersea Park, has been sold in lots as it stood, the materials being almost giv. n away. It was originally erected in 1865 in Dublin as an exhibition, and 10 years later was removed to London. The Duke of Cleveland's mansion in St James's square has been sold for £50,000. At a picture sale. " The Market Cart," by Gainsborough, realised 4500 guineas ; and " A Sea Piece," by Tnrner, 1200 guineas. A Greek coin, Pardosea, B.C. 400, fetched £185. A dessert service of Derby china sold for £459. Queen Elizabeth's autograph found a purchaser at £6 10s* At 0 London music haH, a father, while firing at his daughter, who was wearing a bullet-proof tunic of her own invention, accidentally missed the covering, the shot entering the girl's neck, without, however, inflicting sprious injury. A West End dressmaker says that & woman of fashion expends about £1000 a year on her ward-robe, al- j though some spend six times that amount. As a matrimonial brand, it is suggested married men and women should be tattooed round the third finger of the left hand. The two Atlantic liners, Majestic and Paris, arrived from New \ork almost together. For three days the vessels remained near each other, the 2400 passengers being much excited over the progress of each vessel, although it is denied that an ocean race was indulged in. Some of the railways now supply pillows on hire at night to passengers of any class, at a charge of 6d each. While digging foundations in Cornwall two Koman walls were di-covered, it beinsr the boundary of th«J ancient Londinium. To remove portions <>f the walls was like cutting through solid granite While denrolifhing » building in Tbreadneedle on ancient underground brick chamber or vault was discovered filled with humtn bones carefully stacked together.