LATE ENGLISH ITEMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2209, 4 September 1886, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH ITEMS.

Thk Duke and Ducheas of Edinburgh have placed a cross in white marble over the rrave, .at KinfaUris, Perthshire, of thoir head qufte, who died recently, after 10 years' service, in their family* - Two ion* ot the Khedive of Egypt visited the Queen at Windsor Cantle recently. A boy of eight named Rollason was bathing recently in a pond near Appleton, Lancashire, when .he fell into the mud, from which he was unable to extricate himself, and was drowned. Mr Walter Dakin, fiveryman of the Turners' company, and newspaper proprietor, was recently elected to the Common Oouncil of the City df London, in the room (if : the. lute Mr David S pence. One of the workmen, named William Hawkes, aged 21, was accidentally crushed to death during the laying of the water main in connection with the new Putney bridge. The Salvation Army having at last succeeded in obtaining the lease of premises in Dover, the Town Council have paaaed a bye-law controlling street processions. The first parcel mails to the Australian colonies were despatched on Tuesday, July 26, from the post office, after a little ceremonial incident to the occasion had taken place in the presence of the chief officials. Mr Boehm has just executed a medallion portrait, of the Queen for the new gold, silver, and bronze coinage to be issued during the Jubilee year (1887). Two diminutive boys, William Hanson, aged 12, *nd William Jackson, 11, were remanded at Birmingham iecently, on a charge pf having, out of sheer wantonness, stoned a pony to death. In the fourth week of June, there were 8fr,17l- paupers in the metropolis, against 84,570 last year. Frederick George Nott, 16, and Henry Gates, 16, eneine cleaners, of Plaistow, were fined 20s and costs at Ham police-court, recently, for throwing stones at a passing train on the Great Eastern railway to the common danger of passengers. Earl Amhurst presided on July 6th at the Provincial Grand Lodge of Freemasons, held at Folkestone, and subsequently laid the foundation-stone of the Masonic tnujple, which is to be erected at a cost of £5,000. In the City of London court. Mr John M. O'Fallon, journalist, residing at 48, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, recovered £3656 d for journalistic work from the firm of Messrs Casseil, Fetter, Galpin, and Co. The defendants dhputed that the plaintiff was entitled to 20s a column fur his writing. The Vicar of Saddington, Leicestershire, the Rev. George Cowling Bode, fell dead ou Wednesday evening, July 7th, after hurrying home to escape a thunderstorm. The body of a respectably dressed woman (unknown) has been found in the tunnel between Deal and Dover in a terribly mutilated condition. The interest in the Great Eastern steamship remains unabated on the Mersey, upwards of 25,000 persons having visited her during the past week. No doubt the entertainments provided, heightened by the extensive use of the electric light at nightfall, contribute in making the ship a place of popular resort.