The Cumberland Pacquet January 30th 1902 General news | General news |
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Page 1 of 2 FRIDAY, JANUARY 24.In the House of Commons yesterday, replying to Mr. M'LAREN, Mr. BALFOUR said that no proposal with a view to the settlement of the war on the part on any- one who was entitled to speak for the lea- ders of the Boer forces had reached the Government. Mr. BRODRICK informed Mr. W. REDMOND that Commandant SCHEEPERS was executed on conviction of various gross offences against the us- ages of war, including seven cold-blooded murders of natives and the flogging of a white man. The debate on the Address was resumed. Mr. J. REDMOND, in moving his amend- ment challenging the policy of the Govern- ment in dealing with the Irish land question and in reviving the Crimes Act, said that Mr. WYNDLAM would yet be compelled to adopt the policy of compulsory land purchase which he had repudiated. To introduce a voluntary land purchase bill would be merely to tinker with the question. The discussion was taken part in by a number of Nationalist members, and by Mr. TOMKINSON, Mr. LOUGH, and Mr. HEMPHILL, who supported the amendment, and Colonel SAUNDERSON, who opposed it. Mr. WYNDHAM replied on the discussion. He stated the reasons why the Government were opposed to the compulsory purchase of land, and contended that the agrarian agitation which had arisen was due not to remissness on the part of the Government, but to delib- erate, notorious, prolonged, and on the whole unsuccessful efforts of a very few persons. The debate was adjourned. The Liberal and Conservative organizations in the Ecclesall Division of Sheffield met last night and chose their candidates for the seat in Parliament vacated by the death of Sir ASHMEAD- BARTLETT. The Liberals adopted Mr. BAILE, who contested the division unsuccessfully at the general election. The choice of the Conservatives fell upon Alderman Samuel ROBERTS, who was defeated at the general election by Captain PARTINGTON in the High Peak division of Derbyshire. ~~~~~~~~~~ SATURDAY, JANUARY 25. The debate on Mr. REDMOND'S amendment to the Address dealing with the Irish question was continued by Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR, Mr. DILLON, Mr. HEALY, Mr. MACARTNEY, and others. Mr. ATKINSON (Attorney General for Ireland) contended that to keep the national movement on its legs it was necessary to join an agrarian question to it. Although violent crimes were never at a lower ebb in Ireland there were still intimidation and conspiracy, and it was necessary to put the Crimes Act in force in regard to those crimes. Mr. MORLEY said, with regard to the land question, while he could not support universal compulsion, he intended to vote for the amendment. He intended further, to vote for any motion that carried with it a proposal to confer upon the people of Ireland what the Government pro- posed to give to the colonies. On a division the amendment was rejected by 237 votes to 134. A dozen men of the Imperial Yeomanry were attacked in the Western Transvaal on the 2nd inst. by 150 Boers. After six of the Yeomen had been wounded and four Boers killed the patrol surrendered. Field-Cornet SNYMAN has been captured in the Western Transvaal. The Lord Chief Justice yesterday granted a rule nisi calling upon the Archbishop of Cant- erbury and the Vicar-General to hear the objec- tions to the confirmation of Canon GORE as Bishop of Worcester. ~~~~~~~~~~ MONDAY JANUARY 27. Lord KITCHENER reports that General Ben VILJEON has been captured near Lydenburg, and that Commandant Hans BOTHA, with then other armed Boers, was taken near Welverdien on Friday night. Commandant STRYDON and a number of his men were also captured the same night near Frankfort, in Orange River Co- lony, but a large force of Boers fell upon the British, and in the severe fighting which followed, all the prisoners but three escaped or were shot. The concentration camp at Pietersburg has been penetrated by BEYERS, who took away a large number of surrendered burghers. He afterwards made an attack on the town, but was repulsed. The consecration as Bishop of Worcester of Canon GORE, which had been arranged to take place at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, has been postponed until the decision has been given in the litigation which has been commenced. The postponement, it is understood, was made at the wish of Canon GORE himself. Two gamekeepers were on Saturday committed for trial at the assizes at Northampton charged with setting a spring gun in a part of Salcey Forest. It was stated that the gun was loaded with shot, and when it was touched by a boy who was engaged with a shooting party it went off. The charge struck the lad, who in consequence has lost the sight of one eye. ~~~~~~~~~~ MONDAY JANUARY 27. The Chief Constable of Birmingham has caused a communication to be made to the press to the effect that last night he arrested Police Constable Charles Horace TURLAND on a charge of causing the death of Harold Ernest CURTIN, the victim of the riot which took place on the occasion of Mr. LLOYD-GEORGE'S visit on December 18. The arrest was made in consequence of information obtained by the Coroner's officer, Chief Inspector GOSLING. At the Coroner's inquiry the jury re- turned a verdict of manslaughter against a con- stable unknown. A number of witnesses swore that CURTIN was felled by a blow from a staff wielded by an officer whose appearance they described, but there was not sufficient evidence of identification. The verdict given by the coroner's jury which inquired into the deaths caused by the recent accident in the New York Central Railroad tunnel finds that the engine driver was unable to locate the danger signal owing to the heavy atmosphere of steam and smoke in the tunnel. It further finds that the management of the officials of the New York Central Railroad was faulty, and hold them responsible because for ten years they had been repeatedly warned by the engineers and other em- ployees of the dangerous condition which existed in the tunnel, imperiling the lives of thousands, a condition which they failed to remedy. At Lancaster Assizes on Saturday the jury re- turned a verdict of guilty against Charles COUL- BECK, Jesse CALVERT, and William BROPHY, who were charged with conspiring at Blackpool on December 3 to make an allegation of criminal con- duct against William Henry BEET, a retired Sheffield Schoolmaster, and extorting from him valuables worth £120. The Judge said that the prosecutor's character was absolutely untarnished. CALVERT and BROPHY were each sentenced to twelve years' and COULBECK to ten years' penal servitude. ~~~~~~~~~~ Transcribed by Diane Moore, 02/11/2006 |
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