MISS Roubley, of Egremont, was placed in the dock under the following painful circumstances.

Miss Roubley is a person who has cottage property in Egremont, the rents of which annually bring her in something like £30 or £40. Lately the ‘old lady’ – for she is a ‘Miss’ of ‘a certain age’ – contrived to live up to her income. Formerly she was parsimonious and banked almost as much each year as she spent.

Latterly, however, having taken to excessive drinking, her account with the bank has remained on a level. When she was not intoxicated, the inhabitants of Egremont noticed her demeanour to be other than that of a woman of sound mind; when she was in liquor, of course, it appeared much worse. So annoying, indeed, had she become to Egremont folk, disturbing them into night as well as in the day, that Mr Roberts – regardful of the position of the unfortunate woman, and the public peace – determined on Monday to have Miss Roubley taken into custody by police and brought before magistrates.

THE RECENT DROWNING CASE AT CLEATOR. On Saturday afternoon a meeting of the members of the Crosfield Mining Company’s Friendly Society took place at the works, to consider whether or not a sum of money should be given to the widow of McGuinness, the man who so unfortunately lost his life at Cleator in gallantly endeavouring to rescue a drowning child.

McGuinness had up to a fortnight before his melancholy end been a member of the society, though not at the time of his death a member entitled to benefits owing to have left the employer. The members decided a sum of £20 be handed over to Mrs McGuinness.

OPENING OF THE BEACON MILLS, WHITEHAVEN. At the invitation of Messrs John Pattinson & Son Ltd, a very large company assembled at the opening Sunday afternoon of the new mill.

There were 300 to 400 present at the inaugural speech-making and many more in and about other parts of the premises.

SOME 1,300 people took advantage of the opportunity of visiting Blackpool on Saturday with the Whitehaven Labour Party’s annual excursion.

Three special trains were run, and with the exception of a shower, the weather was fine and the visitors saw the illuminations at their best.

TODAY in Whitehaven Harbour lies a hulk, all that is left of the small fishing boat Henrietta. She was found drifting five miles west of Whitehaven Harbour, deserted and full of water.

A TWO-DAY bazaar, to raise funds towards the restoration of St Begh’s Roman Catholic Church, Whitehaven, was opened on Friday. The Rev L S Cave returned to his old parish to declare the event open.

WEST Cumberland is slowly recovering from the shock it received last Friday when it learned that the over heating of uranium cartridges in the centre of No 1 Pile at Windscale Works Atomic Energy Factory had resulted in a fall out of radioactive vapour.

Amoung the effects of the fall out which are still in evidence is the ban on the distribution of milk from an area covering some 200 square miles.

WORRIED Hensingham mothers staged a protest on the Whitehaven-Egremont trunk road to highlight dangers at a spot where three children have been killed in accidents.

THOUSANDS of homes in West Cumbria will miss the big switch-on when Channel 4 goes on the air on November 2. More than 20,000 viewers in North Lakeland and West Coast towns will not have a Channel 4 for several years. Only viewers served by the Caldbeck transmitter in Whitehaven will be able to receive the new service on their screens.

WHITEHAVEN teenage prospect Vince Gribbin burst onto the first team scene at Hunslet to record 16 points on his debut. The former Hensingham player scored two tries and five goals in his side’s dramatic 25-16 win at Elland Road.