BOLTON'S Chief Education Officer, Mr W.T. Selley, became a temporary member of a printing union toda

So the best thing to do is to go into the coal shed and scrape around to make sure that you have used all the coal. If by good fortune you haven't, then make a fire and get into bed and stay there for two or three days.

There have been 13 deaths from influenza in Bolton this month, so it pays to be careful.

A TELEGRAM from a Cork correspondent states that the National Company's steamer England, which left Queenstown for New York on the 12th inst., put back into that port yesterday evening, having met with a peculiar accident. From the 12th (the time of her putting out to seas) to the 18th, the England encountered very severe weather and strong head winds, with a heavy sea.

The waves breaking over the ship penetrated between the decks, where large quantities of bleaching powder were stored in casks. A number of the casks were broken, and as the powder became saturated a deadly gas was generated, which spread over the ship, and overpowered several of the crew in the forecastle, caused the greatest alarm amongst the passengers.

Strenuous exertions were made by the crew and the passengers under the direction of the officers, to throw the dangerous chemical overboard, but it was impossible to remain more than a few minutes at one time at the work.

In the course of time the gas reached the coal bunkers and engine room driving out the engineers and stokers, and the machinery was brought to a standstill. In this dangerous state of affairs the captain decided to put the ship before the wind and return to Queenstown, where she arrived yesterday, all well. The passengers speak in the highest terms of the intelligence, courage and energy shown by both the officers and crew.

From the Evening News, January 23, 1971

BOLTON'S Chief Education Officer, Mr W.T. Selley, became a temporary member of a printing union today so that he could launch the Evening News' "Newspaper in the Classroom" project. The service takes the form of a weekly supplement written by teachers, and the first copies are published in today's paper. "It brings a bit of the real world into the school and makes children realise that the classroom is not isolated from the rest of life," said Mr Selley.

From the Evening News, January 23,1946

"HAB you god a coad?" I have. So has everyone else - very nearly, writes an "Evening News" reporter. If you're not careful it will turn into influenza, which is widespread in Bolton just now.

So the best thing to do is to go into the coal shed and scrape around to make sure that you have used all the coal. If by good fortune you haven't, then make a fire and get into bed and stay there for two or three days.

There have been 13 deaths from influenza in Bolton this month, so it pays to be careful.

From the Evening News, January 23, 1871

A TELEGRAM from a Cork correspondent states that the National Company's steamer England, which left Queenstown for New York on the 12th inst., put back into that port yesterday evening, having met with a peculiar accident. From the 12th (the time of her putting out to seas) to the 18th, the England encountered very severe weather and strong head winds, with a heavy sea.

The waves breaking over the ship penetrated between the decks, where large quantities of bleaching powder were stored in casks. A number of the casks were broken, and as the powder became saturated a deadly gas was generated, which spread over the ship, and overpowered several of the crew in the forecastle, caused the greatest alarm amongst the passengers.

Strenuous exertions were made by the crew and the passengers under the direction of the officers, to throw the dangerous chemical overboard, but it was impossible to remain more than a few minutes at one time at the work.

In the course of time the gas reached the coal bunkers and engine room driving out the engineers and stokers, and the machinery was brought to a standstill. In this dangerous state of affairs the captain decided to put the ship before the wind and return to Queenstown, where she arrived yesterday, all well. The passengers speak in the highest terms of the intelligence, courage and energy shown by both the officers and crew.

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