THE HERALD OFFICE. __________________________________________ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1874. __________________________________________ LOCAL & DISTRICT NEWS __________________________________________ CONVALESCENT INSTITUTION, SILLOTH. The Treasurer thankfully acknowledges the receipt of a donation of ten pounds from MISS STOCKDALE, of Croft House, Penrith. RISE IN THE VALUE OF LAND. The Tenter End Estate, in Docker, Westmorland, was sold by auction on Wednesday for £2,270. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT. His Royal Highness, the Duke of Connaught is expected at Muncaster Castle, Cumberland, next week on a visit to Lord Muncaster. Invitations have been issued for a garden party on the 14th inst. SUICIDE OF A DESERTER. A man named PALMER (formerly a draper in Penrith), was handed over to an escort of the 93rd Highlanders by the Penrith police on the 29th ult., on a charge of desertion, and on Wednes- day week the unfortunate young soldier cut his throat in a most shocking manner, at Chatham Garrison. WILFUL MURDER AGAINST SOME PERSON OR PERSONS UNKNOWN. We reported a week or two ago that the body of a male child - newly born- had been found in a hole in a dyke, on the turnpike road between Grasmere and Keswick. An inquest has been held this week; and a verdict of “Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown” been returned. THE LAKES. A correspondent at Bowness says: – Every hotel is packed, and sleeping out has been the experience of very many pleasure-seekers. The hotels on Windermere and Derwentwater are excessively overcrowded. Holiday makers are enjoying a larger continuance of fine, sunny, and rainless weather than has been known at the lakes for a considerable time. The coaches and chars-a-banc are either run in duplicate or supplemented with waggonettes, so great is the demand for places; and the steam yachts are simply thronged wherever you go. The pedestrians were never known to be so numerous. COOL ! On Sunday last, MR. HALL, farmer at Gale House, near Appleby, gave infor- mation to the police that two men named BURROWS had gone into an outhouse of his and were smoking their pipes there. They refused to go away when he requested them; and he was frightened that they would set the building on fire. P.C. RONEY was sent back with MR. HALL to look after the matter. As the two approached the outbuilding, they saw smoke coming out of its windows, and coming still nearer, they found that the hay within it was on fire. The two prisoners were sitting in front of the fire doing nothing to put it out ! They were taken into custody. It was not till damage to the amount of £40 had been done that the fire could be extinguished. The men have been sent to gaol for three months. APPLEBY BREWSTER SESSIONS. The annual licensing meeting for the East Ward Division of the county of Westmorland was held on Thursday, the 3rd inst. at the Shire Hall, before WM. HOPES, Esq., REV. T. BELLAS, ROBERT WILKINSON, Esq., and the REV. CANON SIMPSON. the publicans attended in considerable numbers to have their licenses renewed. There were three applications for certificates to hold Excise licenses, viz: MR. MASON, for a provisional license to an hotel near the Railway Station, Kirkby Stephen, now in course of erection, for whom MR. SHEPHERD appeared; MR. T. BROWN, of Kirkby Stephen, applied for a license to sell by retail, wine, to be consumed off the premises, for whom MR. BROWN, from the office of MR. PRESTON, solicitor, Kirkby Stephen, appeared; MR. JOHN THOMPSON, of Longmarton, applied for an ale and spirit license, for whom MR. CANT, solicitor, Appleby, appeared. The two first applications were granted, and the latter refused. ________________________________________________________________ barb,ontario,canada.