... guxlt 6L051tD. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet S To run amuck and tilt at all I meet. Six hundred and forty-two fatal cases of scarlet fever in Hull alone since the beginning of July ! t The'se figures are taken from the return of the 1 Registrar-General. Over one hundred deaths in each month from this dread' disease ! The fact is appalling enough, but it is merely a culmination 1 ...

... The meanest practical joker lives in Philadelphia. Being on a visit to a neighbouring city, he spotted his face all over with red paint, and suddenly made his appearance at anannual meeting of the Anti-Vacoination Society. The members nearly broke their necks getting out of the windows. Hundreds of thousands of men die annually from strong drink. We never undertake to criticise, but we do not ...

... LATEST NEWS, Zt ULL PAOKET OFFICP E PriJ, y .5 a THE HEALTH OF DR PUSEly d Our Oxford correspondent telegraphed last rthat Dr Pasey was much worse, and that th ?? i5 hope of his recovery. therew O la LORD DERBY AT PRESTON ,e Yeterday morning Lord Derby Opened new offices for the countv of Lancaster at P pre u blic I. cost £58,000 Culouel Stanley, M.P*, and Mr Rib r M.P., were also present. ...

... I HIULL WATCH COMMITTEE. THE CHIEF CONSTABLE ANaD MR LARARD. A NECESSARY INQUIRY. A meeting of the Watch Committee was held on, Wednesday at the Town Hall, Ur Stuart presiding.- The police pay estimate for the ensuing week amounted to ;£304 Is Od.-The Chief Constable, referring to the case of the late P.O. Salvage, who was drowned in the Humber D)ock recently, said that at the last meeting Mr ...

... I - -- - : I At Croydon a boy named Skeat has been sent to a reformatory for five years for stabbing another lad in two places. SUSPENSION OF A MASTER AND MATE'S fu CERTIFICATE. S The Board of Trade Inquiry at Leith into the lose of the Adriatic, barque, in the Straits of Belleisle, has re. 38 suited in the suspension of the master's certificate for ne six months, and the mate's for three ...

... ! u | r 31_ E At 12.30 a public meeting was held in the Sessions T Court at the Town Hall, the attendance being notllarge. . The chair was occupied by the Mayor (Alderman Leak), E and amongst those present were His Grace the Arch. bishop of York, Lord Herries, Lord Wenlock, Lord Fitzwillhiam, Mr C. H. Wilson, M.P., Mr C. a. Norwood, M.P., Alderman King, Alderman Fountain, Alderman Waller, ...

... T|E PUBLIC LIBRARY MOVEMEsT IN HULL. I ., .. .. Ie I Another meeting in support of the ?? movemsent was held in the Protestant Hall, Kingstvn-square, and was well attended. Mr Councillor Woodhouse presided, 1 and amongst those present were Dr Rolllt, Mr 3. Wade, I T.P., Alderman Woodhouse, Dr Nicholson, Mr J. Bond Principal of the HeUll and East Riding College; Mr .i Birks, Mr T. J. Smith J.P. ...

... I ROMANTIC SUICIDES IN LOND)ON. I -I- 2 -- - . . From inquiries made in conuection with the recent suicide of a man and a woman who were found tied together in the Serpentine, it would seem that the de. cesaed persons destroyed themselves undercircumstances of premeditation almosi unequalled in the annuals: of suicides. Matilda May and Albert Dickenson, the two deceased, had known each other ...

... MNEWINGTON CONSER'VATIVE I - ASSOCIATION. ADDRESSES BY LIEUT.-COL. SANER, MR. CAMPBELL: THOMPSON, AND I, , MR. A. K. DIBB. A meeting of the above association was held on Tues- day evening at the St. George's Hotel, Newington, for the purpose of bearing addresses from Lieut..Col. Saner, J.P., Mr A. K.. Dibb (non, secretary of the Hull Constitutional Club), and Mr Campbell Th~mpson. The ...

... I , amidial varliamat. , If Ter HOUSE OF.LORDS.-FRIDAT. ThiLordships met at four o'olock, when the Royal assent was given by Commission to the Consolidated Fund (No. 3) Act and a number of other Acts. THE KILRAINHAM PR[SoNERs.-In answer to Lord Orarnmore aud Browns, Lord Carlin? ford said there wae no foundation for a statement published in the Da;.IV Telegra~pk, that he had visited the ...

... HULL AND BARNSLEY RAILWAY i EXTENSION. YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Yesterday Sir John Hawkshaw, O.E., was examined for the opponents of the bill. He estimated the cost of the line to Huddersfield at £58,000 per mile, and the cost of the Halifax and Huddersfield line at £100,000 per mile. The amount taken for stations, £94,000, was in- sufficient. The Lrtnoashire and Yorkshire and London and North ...

... HULL AND BAR1NSLEY RAILWAY _ _- EXTENSION BILL. The House of Commons' Committee having charge of this bill resumed on Tuesday, when the evidence against the promoters was concluded by Mr Findlay, general manager of the London and North.Western.-Mr Pope, Q.C., addressed the Committee on behalf of the oppo. sition. He admitted that Huddersfield had suffered a good deal from not having been on a ...