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N° 32 671 LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1889 Price: 3d. BIRTHS O n the 9th inst., the wife of EDWARD ARNOTT CLOWES, of twin girls, stillborn. O n the 10th April, at East London, South Africa, the wife of JEREMY OLIVER FLINT, of a son. MARRIAGES O n the 10th inst., at Holy Trinity Church, Kilburn, by the Rev. Reginald Reagan, THOMAS JOYCE of great Yarmouth, to MARY ANN, elder daughter of JOHN FAITH, of Kilburn. A t Park Church, Highbury London, EGLINGTOUN WALLIS, son of J.B. FRANCIS, Hartford, to MARGARET FISHER, daughter of ROBERT WALES, Stoke Newington, London. DEATHS O n the 27th March, at Hongkong, of fever, EDMUND NORTON WIGHT, of Sheffield, aged 29. Australian papers, please copy. O n the 9th inst., after a long illness, at 3, Tyrwhite Road, Brockley, the beloved wife of JOSEPH W HITFIELD, Esq., R.N. O n the 10th April, at Dear, from an accident whilst bathing, REST WILLIAM FLINT, Town Clerk of the City of Canterbury, aged 49 years. CAUTIONS AND NOTICES C AUTION— BRAND and Co.’s ESSENCE of BEEF, Turtle Soup, and other specialities for invalids. Beware of imitations. No connexion with any other establishment. Sole address 11, Little Stan-hope Street, Mayfair, W. Est. 1835. N OTICE.— To American Visitors - IN HENRIETTA CLOTH, extra quality, price 12s. 6d. per yard. Faithfully recommended COBAY’S, Great Portland, London. N OTICE.— MINTON’S CHINA - A visit to Messrs. MARLOWE’S depot in North Audley Street will at once show the immense superiority of their collection, both as regards taste, extent, and lowness of price. PERSONAL, C ONSTABLE (Miss MARIA) died in France in January, 1889, leaving property. Her REPRESENTATIVES are requested to COMMUNICATE with Messrs. Napolean. Argyle, and Co., Solicitors to the French Consulate, Paris. L ady, spending summer in Germany and Italy, wishes to meet another who would JOIN her. Economy considered — Miss Wood, the Grange, Wood-green, N. T HE INDIGENT BLIND VISITING SOCIETY (founded 1834) The Secretary gratefully ACKNOWLEDGES the RECEIPT of £5 from B.S. towards providing more than 900 of the blind poor with coals and other relief. Office, 11, Red Lion Square, WC. M ONEY. LONDON and WEST-MINSTER LOAN and DISCOUNT COMPANY (Limited). ADVANCES made, in sums from £10 to £500 on personal security, deeds, furniture, bills of sale, life policies, reversions. Prospectus sent on application. Offices, 29, Queen Victoria Street, EC. Paul Trafton, Secretary M UTUAL FUND ASSOCIATION, Limited, Incorporated 1880, 16, Surrey Street, Waterloo bridge, Strand, WC, and 33 Ship Street, Brighton, ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security bills of sale, deeds, repayable by instalments. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free. Moderate interest. David Roster, Secretary MISCELLANEOUS S COTLAND. — A gentleman is forming a SHOOTING PARTY, limited to seven or eight members, to shoot one of the finest moors in Scotland. For particulars address Box 4,076, Haley’s Advertising offices. S TAGE as a PROFESSION— Ladies and gentlemen adopting the stage should apply for a prospectus of the DRAMATIC and BURLESQUE TRAINING COLLEGE. Fees low. Staff of professors. Constant practice and appearance. Address 8, Guilford Street, Russell square. N O task too GREAT, for Brody’s task force. Able-bodied men all, for jobs of all sites and all difficulties. Try us and see. Low rates. 337, The Strand, London. SITUATIONS B REWING PUPIL. An exceptional opportunity presents itself in a large brewery in the West of England, where only one PUPIL is taken, to a gentleman wishing to learn thoroughly brewing, theoretically and practically. Brewing is carried on daily, producing vatted bitter, and all classes of beers. There is also a malting attached to the brewery. The plant is worked upon the most advanced system, and with the latent improvements. Address Aeration, Box No. I, Redcliff Post-office, Bristol. L AW A Solicitor desires a CLERKSHIP with a view to a partnership — N504, Address and Inquiry office, The Times Office, EC. S YNDICATE REQUIRED, SIX GENTLEMEN, to form a syndicate, to purchase a very valuable business with a view to the formation of a public company. Present profits £1,400 per year, and yearly increasing. Qualifications £500 each. Address, in first instance, Weir, 18, Leadenhall Street, EC. HOUSES, TO BE LET & SOLD O FFICES and WINE CELLARS WANTED, now or at June quarter, in or near St. James Street. Rent and all particulars to Harold, care of Messrs. Bonds & Honds, Charing Cross Road, NW. R EQUIRED to RENT, a detached HOUSE, with six or seven bedrooms, and a good secluded garden. Not more than 10 or 12 miles out, W. or N.W. Rent £ 80 to £ 100.— R., 8, Cleveland Street, NW. E ASTBOURNE— Detached FURNISHED RESIDENCE, facing the sea, in best part of the town, to be LET, for two or three months. Stabling, and every comfort and convenience for a gentleman’s family.— Crispins, Land Agents, Eastbourne. N 0. 5, FITZROY-SQUARE, NW. — ONE of the LARGEST and best HOUSES in the square, in thorough repair, bath room, to be LET. Apply on the premises. F LATS for all people, some furniture provided. Open to view this week-end. 37 Union Road, London, SE. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (From our Correspondents) THE PLOTS TO KILL THE CZAR Vienna, April 11 A telegram from Odessa says that 482 officers of the army arrived there yesterday under a strong military escort. They are accused of participation in the last attempt on the Czar’s life, and will be transported to Eastern Asia. FRANCE AND MOROCCO Tangier, April 11 M. la Martiniere, who is engaged in archaeological researches in Morocco on behalf of the French and English Archaeological Societies, has been seriously assaulted by the Sheikh of Algarbeah after an altercation with the latter concerning the supply of provisions to M. de la Martiniere’s camp followers. DISCOVERY OF THE SARCOPHAGUS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT Constantinople, April 11 Further examination of the sarcophagi recently discovered at Saida, in Syria, shows that among them is the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great containing the body of the monarch. CHINA AND THE VATICAN Rome, April 11 The convention under negotiation for some time past between the Chinese Government and the Vatican for the direct representation of the Holy See at Peking has been concluded, and the Monsignor Agliardi has been appointed to the post of Internuncio thus rendered necessary in the Chinese capital. Monsignor Agliardi will leave for Pekin in the course of next month, representations having been made by the Chinese Government that the departure of the Internuncio should be expedited as much as possible. It is known at the Vatican that the French assumption of a protectorate over the Catholic missions in China and the native Christians depending on them has produced a feeling of strong dissatisfaction among the Chinese official class, and that apprehension is felt at Pekin that unless the Internuncio arrives shortly in order to terminate the present unsatisfactory state of things serious disorders may result. GERMANY AND ZANZIBAR Berlin, April 11 It is announced that the German squadron will be leaving Zanzibar, where they have been maintaining arrangements of the East African Delimitation Conference. MUMMY STRIKES AGAIN The body of James Windibank was discovered late yesterday in the room he was preparing for the British Museum’s exhibit of newly discovered artefacts from the tomb of Katebet’s Mummy. The archaeologist was found strangled. Around his neck were linen bandages of the type used by the ancient Egyptians in wrapping mummies. Windibank’s is the third murder to be associated with the Mummy Katebet in the past six weeks. The archaeologist had accompanied the London University-sponsored expedition to Egypt. The project has been cursed with ill luck since the first discovery of the tomb several months ago. Its organizer, Dr. Ebenizer Turnbull, was murdered in the actual tomb itself. Another archaeologist, Andrew Weatherby, met a similar fate on board the ship returning to England. The Jardine ship Eastern Empress was the scene of that mysterious death. The shipboard investigation was handled by Captain Herman Ramsey and his first officer, Luther Tenney. Scotland Yard has declined to name any suspects at this time. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES Sir,- With regard to the recent Mummy Murders, I would like to suggest that we abandon our attempts to disturb the ancients, in their graves or otherwise. This applies not only to such excavations as have become so common in Egypt, Morocco and other foreign lands, but also to such projects in our own British Isles. If the hypotheses of such men as James Fergusson, who believes that Stonehenge is an ancient sepulchral monument of the Saxon Druids, are true, we should leave these burial grounds undisturbed. Surely if these murders are the work of some present- day mortal human, the police will discover his identity and bring him to justice. I do sincerely believe, however, we should not meddle in the magic and sorcery of which we know naught, for we have not the means to control the forces thus unleashed. Respectfully yours, J.A. Smutts TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES Sir, — The recent Mummy affair points up a fact I have been trying to convince my fellow Britishers of for quite some time; that is the phenomenal number of crimes, particularly those of a serious nature committed by foreigners. Shouldn’t we act now to restrict access to our beloved isle before this tragedy becomes yet worse? Johnny Bulldog - Trent FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS Through the Reuters’ Agency: — FRANCE Paris, April 11 In the Senate M. Leroyer was again re-elected President. Much snow has fallen in Catalonia, and wolves have descended from the Pyrenees into the villages. Snow fell here this afternoon, but thawed as it fell. BALLOONING IN FRANCE Cherbourg, April 11 M. L’Hoste, the aeronaut, accompanied by M. Maugot, the astronomer, will tonight make an accent, proceeding to sea, in his new balloon, Torpilleur, which is fitted with sails and propellers and carries a new kind of gear enabling the aeronauts to remain two days at sea. DUTCH INDIA Brussels, April 11 The “Berriberri” disease is increasing in Dutch India. The monopoly of steam navigation on the Indian Archipelago, which has been conferred on a Dutch company, is stated to be injurious to the interests of Indian trade. THE IRON STRIKE IN AMERICA New York, April 11 Thirteen employers have now signed the wage scale demanded by the iron workers on strike. FATAL ACCIDENTS A sad accident, which terminated fatally, occurred on Monday last to Mr. Francis Scott, of Farleigh Castle, Somerset, who while riding in his grounds was thrown from his horse, received a concussion of the brain, and died in a few hours. The Farleigh estates, which include the highly interesting ruins on the old castle, formerly the property of the Hungerford family, revert to his uncle, Sir Giles Scott, G.C. M.G., who was Chief Secretary to the Government of Malta from 1855 to 1883. A Mr. James Johnston and his son, of the same name were on Wednesday afternoon engaged in laying the foundation of a headstone in a cemetery at Tollcross, near Glasgow, when the excavation, 14 ft. deep, fell in. The father was carried down with the falling soil and stone and completely buried. The son had a very narrow escape. Many villagers volunteered and attempted to recover the dead body, but it was so jammed that their efforts to extricate it were in vain. LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE (From Lloyd’s) WRECKS AND CASUALTIES Lloyd’s agent at Malta telegraphs that the British steamer Mary Thomas, from Sebastopol for Rotterdam, is reported aground on Monsciar Reef. The steamer Lady Armstrong is reported by telegraph from Havre to have been in collision with the French steamer Ville de Honfleur, lying alongside the quay. The latter sank a few minutes after the collision. A telegram from Greenore yesterday stated that the schooner George Dundas of Carnarvon, from Runcorn for Warren-point had foundered 30 miles off Carlinford Bar. Crew saved. FOREIGN ARRIVALS BOMBAY, April 9 - Clio, st., Middlesborough. MADEIRA, April 10 - Foscolia, st., Cardiff PHILADELPHIA, April 10 Elhruz, st., Shields - - Missouri, QUEBEC, by cable - Gerona, st., SHIELDS. SYDNEY - Cabul, London. HOME ARRIVALS Liverpool, April Thule, st., Drau Ibis, st., Rotterdam Brittania, st., Odessa. April 11 - Rivera, st., Barcelona Iowa, st., Boston. High Water at London Bridge Today Morning 39 min. after 2 Afternoon 59 min. after 2. ACCIDENT TO A MAIL STEAMER The Allan Line steamer Prussian, which grounded at Port Glasgow after collision with the steamer Memling on Thursday last, was successfully floated yesterday afternoon with the assistance of two powerful tugs and proceeded to Glasgow. LONDON DIOCESAN CONFERENCE The clergy of the deanery of St. George’s, Hanover Square, which includes most of the West-end parishes, have elected the following as their representatives at the approaching Diocesan Conference: —Rev. T. Teignmouth Shore, Rev. Loren Ackerman, and Rev. H. Montague Villiers TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES Sir, — As a man of science and medicine, I must protest these innuendos of murderous mummies. The ancient Egyptians had progressed far in their own investigations of life and science, but they had certainly not found the secret of everlasting life in the material world. Even had they, we cannot bring home the murder of two men to a 4000-year-old mummy. I can only repeat that this is utter nonsense and balderdash, without the slightest scientific basic, and a disgrace to the pages of your venerable newspaper. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, John H. Watson, M.D. HOUSES, TO BE LET AND SOLD E ATON-SQUARE (close to) LEASE of a BIJOU RESIDENCE. 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