On Wednesday afternoon the members of Melbecks and Grinton Conservative Club formally opened their new club at Low Row,which they have built at a cost of about £250 consisting of a reading room, billiard room and a large room for meetings, also a cottage for a caretaker. ... The Rev C Whaley then spoke ... and warned them 'not to allow the club to sink into a mere social institution but to remember that its first object was to disseminate the political principles in which they believed'.

Early on Tuesday morning the Wesleyan Chapel at Reeth Swaledale was discovered on fire. The people in the neighbourhood extinguished the flames. The pulpit and choir seats were destroyed and many panes of glass were broken. The damage was estimated at £200.

Funeral of a Swaledale Tradesman. A few years ago Mr James Croft of Reeth in Swaledale had been working at Cogden Hall. On his return home he stayed at a spring, as he had done many a time, to quench his thirst. He drank from a pint pot which was standing by, and it was afterwards discovered that the pot had been used by the gardener in mixing a poisonous matter with which to destroy the weeds. On returning home Mr Croft became seriously ill; his constitution ever afterwards began to fail, and he died the other day.