Is there a pressing need for houses in Manchester? The problem appeared to have shifted from Hulme to the north and north east of the city where the paper reported there were distressing stories of working class families unable to find suitable homes.
” in the dreary and drab areas of miles plating, there are instances of people poor,but decent and respectable for the most part who have been searching for small houses for weeks and have been unable to find them -their incomes are too small to permit the solution of moving to the suburbs to settle in the desirable residencies there and they must live near to their places of employment for obvious reasons
An open air meeting in Cheetham hill decided to spend a deputation to the Tramways committee to ask for Half Penny fares between the Polygon and Queens Road.
A man in west Timperley was charged with having been drunk in charg of a motor vehicle , he had knocked two people off their bikes and was fined £5 and his license suspended for three months
A roof collapsed on one of the ancient buildings in Poets Corner in the centre of Manchester. The building, which dated back to the Middle Ages in Long mill-gate came to grief during a storm in the early hours of the morning which brought down the old gable roof half timbered in solid oak.
The premises were occupied by an antique dealer and it was announced that restoration would begin immediately.
The French President was beginning his visit to Russia.It was, said the London Times, the progress of the Russian army, which most concerns France, as well as talks about the two country’s alliance.
The same paper’s correspondent reported from Vienna that both sides were keen not to let interest in the crisis to flag.
Today, considerable exception by the newspapers of the monarchy to various utterance of Serbian officials.
