LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
 
 
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Mr. John MUSGRAVE is said to be slowly improving.
 
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Mr. PATTINSON, Mayor, is better, and was in town yesterday.
 
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The W. & C. Yeomanry will assemble at Penrith on Wednesday next.
 
 
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The Manx Wesleyan Synod was held on Monday, Tuesday, and yesterday at  
Douglas.
 
 
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The School Board Election at Distington is at hand, and a contest is  
anticipated.
 
 
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Wild hyme grow in abundance on the main road near Yottenfews.
 
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The violets and primroses on the railway slopes at Nethertown are  
magnificent. 
 
 
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Millom Bible Christians held their Sunday School anniversary services on  
Sunday and Monday.
 
 
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Mr. SCHMID, formerly of St. Bees, is opening a school at Balham,  London.
 
 
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Workington Presbyterian Choir gave a concert at Parton Congregational  Church 
on Thursdeay evening.
 
 
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Two Keswick young ladies were fines 10s and costs, for riding bicycles  
without lights on Saturday.
 
 
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Mr. and Mrs. Jas. FAWCETT, of the Castle Hotel, Millom, entertained the  
Millom Football Club to dinner on Monday evening.
 
 
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At a meeting in the Working Men's Institute on Monday evening, it was  
decided to have a trip to Scale Hill on Whit Monday.
 
 
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