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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4373, 9 January 1883, Page 2

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Dvbun, Dec. 17.

Concerning the Pbcenis Park investiga tion, the latest received is to the effect that the Ijord Lieutenant has issued three new proclamations offering rewards for information, vjz, ; £5,000 for information leading to the conviction of the assassins, and the authorities promise to insure that the names of the informants will not be divulged; £1,000 to any accomplice in crime, not an actual murderer, who will

give information leading to the conviction ' of any of the actual murderers or accomplices ; and £500 for information leading to the identification of any accomplice or of the horse or car on which the as sassins rode, or of the assassins' clothes or weapons. These proclamations, although only issued on the evening of the 16th, are dated November 11th. The police believe they have sufficient evidence to sustain a charge of conspiracy against persons now in custody on charges of suspicion.

Five skaters were drowned in the Thames on December 12th by the ice breaking. The thermometer registered seventy below Zero. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Whalley, M;P., charged with obtaining £65 by means of false pretences from Peterborough, a publican.

A seVere snowstorm occurred in England oa the 7th of December. A train was snowed up all night in Cheshire, and the passengers suffered acutely. There have been heavy storms, and many wrecks have taken place. The railways and telegraphs are interrupted in-Scotland in every direction. *

The Duke of Edinburgh has been ap pointed Colonel-in Chief of. this Koyal Marines. ■

Chadwick and Sons, woollen factors Leeds, have failed for £70,000.

A train in North Scotland, from Macduff, fell through the bridge at Fyvie, Aberdeenshire. Fourteen persons were killed and a number injured.

ClevedenHall, near Bristol, was burned. The library, one of the most valuable in England, was partially destroyed. ' The Albert Mills, Densbury, London, and the North Western Factory, Wolverton, are burned. The loss sustained was £100,000.

> The remaining four prisoners, in the,, Joyce murder case threw themselyesi on" the clemency of the Crown and asked for their lives. They were sentenced to death, but five have had their sentencescommuted to penal servitude.