Manchester council held its monthly meeting where it was proposed that men employed by the corporation who had enlisted would be retained on half pay as had been initially announced when war broke out in August.

It was to be made clear that no man or his family would be worse off financially for joining up.

The first of the wounded men to succumb to their injuries at the Manchester Military Hospital was laid to rest

Private Richard Harris attached to the Kings Royal Rifles went through the Boer war without a scratch, but was shot in the lungs at the battle of Aisne on the 9th Sept

His coffin, mounted on an open hearse and draped in a Union Jack, made its way from Chorlton Street to Whitworth Street and into Brook street before being taken to the Southern cemetery.

A Bolton mill secretary was jailed for three years for fraud and falsification of accounts to the tune of £25,000. Joshua Woodhead, aged 42, seemed quite unaffected by his position as he entered the dock and pleaded guilty in a very low voice.

The sixteenth annual show of the Manchester Poultry and Pigeon association opened in Belle Vue, its entries suffering heavily due to the war , although there were still 4,670 entries some 600 below the previous years tally.

Mr H Pike Pease, a well known parliamentary pigeon fancier was among those who had their birds on show

A rogue and vagabond Thomas Hamilton Herbert was sent to prison for 12 months at Salford borough sessions after being found guilty of stealing 10d from a gas meter.

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