... WORKHOUSE FARE, N- EW ORDER AS TO THE DAILY RATIONS. Though a lady speaker at the Congregational Union the other day. with the charaoteistic moderation of her sea, described the workhouse as a living grave, it would be a little rash to accept the definition ...

... IA,'FELING IN THE I ~WORKHOE. PONTEFRACT POOR HAVE A TEA AND CONCERT. IFROIX OUR. OWN ESIPORTER) If a. workhouse were always so pleasant a place as was yesterday the building in which the destitute and aged of the inhabitants of Pontefract are domiciled ...

... DONCASTERVS NE W OR EIHOUSE. TIHE CZAR INT-ESETsEM IN T'lE BUILDING. The Doncaster new workhouse, which was camm en ced. at the beg nning of 1893, was opened yestardav mornminm by M\1r. Fi'. Bacon Frank, chairmann of the Beard of Guardians. 'The Gurardians ...

... L Morton, of South Shields, who designed the new work-houses at Doncaster, Barton-on-Trent, and Grantham, is the azehi- tect, and the contractor is Messr Marold Arnold and Son. Doncaster. The workhouse at present in use stands in Ifillidge. road, Hunslet ...

... times is afforded by the new wards for icobeciles and epileptics, which where nearned yesterday afternoon at thec Leeds Workhouse by Mr. Alfvred Dobson, chairnoan of the Board of Scar- dimes. Contrasiod withn the old frme-lit-s quarter; whisieb hitherto ...

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... Guazdians M. B. North objected to the payment of the clotlmg contractor'g bill for material ssupplied to the Crosland Moor Workhouse, on the ground that the cloth was aof a common make, largely composed of cotton, and did not conme up to sanple While, he ...

... celebrated the fall of Pretoria' and the rest of the story on Wednesday. The patient dwellers cut in Beckett-street, at the workhouse, to rit, were-content, to wait until yesterday. There rave been several red-lette- days, so it is said, in connection with ...

... in the absence of suitable provision, no other prospect than a workhouse death and a pauper's grave before them. It is a, fact, and a truly dis- ereditable fact, that excepting the workhouses Grcot Britain possesses no national homes for dying soldiers ...

... supporting the conduct of the workhouse master in refusing to obtain an extra skiled nurse for a sick inmate when considered neoes. sary by him, he 'begged to resign his appointment as mredical officer for the workhouse. The Board decided. to ask the ...

... authorities in England anl Wales of the steps they will be warranted in taking ?? fresh legislative authority. The condition of workhouse children is one which must always appeal to those who ?? with mis- fortune. Philanthropists are agreed that the so- - called ...

... last's years revenue for the purpose of creating a surplus. THE FATALITY AT THE HALIFAX WORKHOUSE. Mr. J. F. Hill (Deputy Corner) held en inquest at the Halifax Wo~rkhouse yesterday afternoon respecting the death of WNillinen Luther Spencer (46), consaercim- ...