NEWS ITEMS.
ADVICE TO PUBLICANS. – It may perhaps be well for the information
of publicans, in prospect of Brough Hill fair, and other public gatherings, to
call their attention to the change respecting the sale of liquor off the
premises under the new Act of last Session, which requires that publicans shall
now obtain an “occasional” or special licence for these times. Forms of
application may be had from the local Excise Officer, and must be signed by a
magistrate ; the Licenses will be granted by MR. SWINDELLS, Supervisor of Inland
Revenue, Penrith.
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BROUGH SCHOOL BOARD. – The following persons have been nominated
for election as members of the School Board, for the Brough united district:
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MATTHEW ATKINSON, Lowgill, farmer;
GEORGE HENRY BAILEY, Brough, postmaster;
GEORGE BAINBRIDGE, Brough Sowerby, farmer;
JOHN CHARTER, Brough, Baptist Minister;
J. A. DICKINSON, Brough, farmer;
WM. KILVINGTON, Brough, farmer;
THOMAS LAMB, Hillbeck, farmer;
ROBERT LONGSTAFF, Brough, yeoman;
REV. W. LYDE, vicar of Brough;
JOHN MORLAND, Brough Sowerby, gentleman;
and
GEORGE WHITEHEAD, Brough, Primitive Methodist.
- five of the number to be elected. The election takes place
next Thursday. we understand that several of them have
withdrawn.
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THE JUMPING ABOMINATION. – Agricultural public opinion tends at
present towards the abolition of jumping altogether. The agricultural
press is unanimous in condemning it; exhibitors of machinery complain loudly of
the injury which their interests sustain from the practice of jumping at
agricultural shows, and recently these have abstained from exhibiting their
implements in Ireland, though they have been well represented at the English
Society’s show at Bedford. Practical farmers do not care for it, for they
know well that such exhibitions furnish no true test of the jumping powers of a
horse at all, as many an animal will acquit himself creditably in the hunting
field which will positively refuse to jump in a crowded yard surrounded by a
crowd of excited spectators. It is to be hoped that the recent lesson of
the Wexford show will not be lost on Society. – ‘ Irish Correspondent of
Agricultural Gazette ‘
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