SHORT LOCAL AND GENERAL
NEWS ITEMS.
 
 
******
 
Sir James BAIN is at present at Aix-les-Bains.
 
******
 
Mrs. W. J. ARMSTRONG and family are at present at Seascale.
 
******
 
Mr. PEILE, mining engineer, has arrived in London from the Cape.
 
******
 
Irishmen drink more in proportion to their incomes than Englishmen.
 
******
 
Mr. John VIVIAN, St. Bees, is off for  afew weeks sojourn in the  Channel 
Islands.
 
******
 
Mr. T. McKAY, Carlisle, has taken the Sanwith Quarries, near  Whitehaven.
 
******
 
The flowers at Corkickle Station are beginning to repay the attention and  
care bestowed upon them.
 
******
 
An interesting letter from Mrs. MITCHELL, lately of Clydesdale Bank, will  be 
seen in another column.
 
******
 
Two boys were cautioned at Keswick Police Court, on Saturday, for throwing  
stones at each other on the street.
 
******
 
At Cockermouth Police Court, on Monday, J. RITSON was fined 35s, including  
costs, for robbing a pheasants nest, and was allowed a fortnight to pay.
 
******
 
The new ship the "Carmanian" left Workington yesterday (Wednesday) in tow  
for Liverpool, where, she will load a general cargo for Australia.
 
******
 
The Prince of Wales opened the new civic buildings in Aldate's Oxford, on  
Thursday. His Royal Highness was an Oxford undergraduate thirty years ago.
 
******
 
A man named PARKER, who was to have appeared before the Richmond (Surrey)  
magistrates, on Monday, on a charge of drunkenness, hanged himself.
 
******
 
Mr. A. THOM, secretary of the Moresby Parks Reading Room, is about to be  
presented with a gold watch by the members, having been secretary for over eight  
years.
 
******
 
Jonathan WRIGHT captured four Parton Herring on Saturday. Ten caught in the  
stake nets at Barrowmouth on Monday, and were sold by Mrs. COWMAN at 7d  each.
 
******