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DISASTROUS FIRES IN PARIS.
ipTom Our Oivn Correspondents and through Renter*$Agency.] DISASTROUS FIRES IN PARIS. Saturday,—It was not until four o'clock !!i ,s. horning that the firemen succeeded in iKiistery over the fire in the Passage lar but they had to cjntinus to pour a volume of water upon the smouldering ^ore tne flames were finally extinguished, dest- *n ^>assao° Gatbois, were completely estroyed. A wood merchant, Chaussonnerie, 'mates his losses at 600,000 francs. Eight e&naries filled with fodder, belonging to the jV°Us Railway Company, were also consumed. /i° ons has met with any serious accident.— Neuter. fi PARIS, Saturday.—A second most disastrous 1>l'e occurred early this morning off Avenue Wttnesnd, on premises occupied by Cooper and la ^j?eer wood merchant. The flames spread Pialy, and in half an hour the fire was raging er an area of more that 4,000 square metres. In nsequeiice of the fire on Quai Jammopes it was tte time before any engines arrived, and conse- MUently, at three o'clock, the conflagration, which ^oke out at 12.30, was still raging. No reports Personal injuries have been received.—Renter.
A LUMBER DISTRICT IN FLAMES.
A LUMBER DISTRICT IN FLAMES. NEW YORK, Saturday.—The entire lumber tstrlct of Oswego, New York State, is on fire. warehouses and elevators have already en consumed. A gale is blowing, and if the n<J changes the entire business portions of the *■ be destroyed. The loss already amounts t0 S00.030 dols.—Renter.
A FOOTBALL TEAM DROWNED.
A FOOTBALL TEAM DROWNED. MELBOURNE, Sunday.—What is feared to have fin- a sac* boating fatality occurred in Port i P Yesterday evening. Fifteen members of a otball team secured the services of two fisher- to take them across the bay in an open boat. °«y never reached their destination, however, ,/Y this morning the boat was found floating g'ttom upwards, having evidently been capsized. ls supposed, therefore, that all the occupants ere drowned.—Renter.
THE REBELLION AT VENEZUELA.
THE REBELLION AT VENEZUELA. A toEW "orkJ Tuesday. —The Herald publishes inp raru from Valencia, Venezuela, announc- iie r^a<! the rebels have been defeated at kill i ma with a loss of one hundred men that n ai-ic^ wounded. Tho despatch adds o« t l)^'na has captured Coro, and is marching "Q -La Vela. in to advices from Hermossillo, the Mexican St&fcfe of Sonora, a fight VaUr, between the Government troops and Loi?TJ Indians on the 17th instant near ? Palros. A number of Yaquis were killed, the remainder dispersed. The Mexicans lost men killed, and their commanding officer as wounded. There arfe 30,000 Yaquis m Sonora, the majority of them are aggressive.Both 6 government and the Indians are preparing a lengthy conflict.—Renter.
SCENE ON THE SCAFFOLD.
SCENE ON THE SCAFFOLD. A Partial Confession. MELBOURNE, Monday. — There was little or no change observable in Deeming's con- duct yesterday. He allowed a small supply of spirits thrice in the course of the day, and swallowed the drams with great eager- ness. He occupied himself chiefly in writing, and calmly discussed at intervals his approaching doom, declaring that it was not his inten- tion to make any speech upon the scaffold. He retired to rest, and slept fairly well for some hours. He was still asleep when called at seven o'clock. Tho irons, with which he had re- mained bound, were removed, and the convict at once lighted a cigar. He seemed m very good health, and declared himself quite resigned to his fate. He had, he added, no fear in regard to the fuure When Mr Sbegog, the governor of the gaol, spoke to him, Deeming informed him that he had made his peace with God. He con- tinued to persist in his denial of the Rainhill murders, asserting that he had never lost control of himself in England as he had done since his arrival in Australia. He wished, he said. to express his gratitude to Mr Shegog and the other officers of the gaol for the consideration they had shown him during his imprisonment. He was also very grateful to Mr Lyle, his solicitor, and the other gentlemen who had taken part in the conduct of his defence. He did not think it was likely that he would falter or make any scene at the last moment. Deeming was offered and accepted a glass of brandy, swallow- ing it at a gulp. He was told that he might have more if the doctor should order it. There was a large attendance at the execution, a considerable number of official personages, including justices of the peace, senior officers. of the police, ministers of religion, etc., having obtained tickets of admission. On being weighed Deeming turned the scale at lOst. 31b. This was just about a stone leas than his weight when he was first incarcerated in Melbourne Prison. A drop of 7ft. 4in. was allowed. In gloomy weather, at an early hour, large crowds began to assemble outside the gaol, and a strong force of police was put upon dutyto maintain order. When the hangman, accompanied by the deputy-governor, went to the condemned cell to piniort the prisoner, they found him praying, rep&fifng over and over again the words, Lord have mercy upon my soul." This prayer he continued to mutter as he was led out into the yard where the scaffold was erected. He wore a cap, which partially shaded his face, so that his features could hardly be discerned by tho spectators. A later telegram says: — An immense crowd collected before the prison gate long before the hour fixed for the execution, and remained Inntil all was over. There was, however, no public demonstration of any kind. The execu- tion was witnessed by a number of Press representatives and others, chiefly officials, who were all admitted by ticket at 9.57. The hangman, who wore a false white beard, and his assistant, wearing a black beard, crossed the scaffold and entered the condemned cell at ten o'clock precisely. The sheriff, accompanied by the governor of the gaol, ascended the scaffold. The governor then entered the coll, whereupon the sheriff formally demanded that the body of Albert Williams should be delivered up to him. The condemned man was then led out upon the scaffold by the hangman and pinioned. He walked firmly, but appeared to tremble slightly. As he stood on the drop he shook his head slightly twice. The Sheriff then asked him if he had anything to say. Deeming replied faintly, May the Lord receive my spirit." The cap was then drawn over the condemned man's face, and the chaplain read the burial service. Immediately this was concluded the executioner drew the bolt and the body dropped. Not the slightest move- ment was observable after, and it was declared that death had been absolutely instantaneous.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS. MELBOURNE, Monday, 12.50 p.m.—The an- nouncement that Deeming had paid the penalty of his crimes was received by the public with a sense of relief, the more so from the very expeditiousness with which the sentence had been carried out. The scrffold, which, of course, stood within the walls of the gaol, consisted of a platform stretching across a. courtyard and connecting two cells usually set apart to criminals condemned. A beam that served as a gibbet had been fixed to the walls above the cell doors. About 100 spectators gathered at the scene. They in- cluded the representatives of the Press, who stood lining an open passage way on a level with and directly facing the scaffold. Thence they were able to closely watch and to hear everything that occurred. The other onlookers occupied a corridor below, and prominent among them were medical men, justices, members of Parliament, and some few privileged visitors. The Rev Mr Scott, the gaol Chaplain, was too ill to attend, his indisposition being attributed to the anxiety and fatigue caused by his fruit- less attempts of the past few days to minister spiritual consolation to the criminal, and his place was at the last moment taken by the Rev Mr Whitton and the Rev Mr Forbes, but the religious service was short. Before the cap was finally drawn over his features Deeming looked down apparently dazed. His reply to the Sheriff's question as to whether he had anything to say was an ap. parently sullen and almost inaudible mumble, which was understood to be Nothing." After the noose was adjusted the criminal's head moved, and his body swayed slightly, but he gave no other sign of feeling until a momenii before the bolt was drawn he exclaimed, Lord, have mercy upon my soul." These were abso- lutely his last words. Man hath but a short time to live had barely escaped the lips of the clergyman when the bolt was drawn, the body fell, and was all over. From the motionless appear- ance of the remains it was evident that Deeming's death had been instantaneous. The Inquest.' The corpse remained within view of the spectators only for a few seconds, when tho curtain was drawn. An inquest was subsequently held at the gaol. The proceedings opening at twenty minutes to 12. A jury of seven was empanelled and sworn, and Deeming's remains were then carefully ex- amined. It was clear that the mouth had been firmly set before the bolt had been drawn, because there was only a slight pro- trusion of the tongue, and this was regarded as unusual. The face, which was very thin, showed signs of heavy weeping. The rope was found to have cut the neck on one side, but only slightly, and there was very little blood. Formal evidence having been given by the sheriff and tho governor and doctor of the gaol, the jury found that the dead murderer had been hanged in accordance with the law. The inquest was brought to a close at 12.15 p.m.— Renter. Deeming's Alleged Confession. MELBOURNE, Monday, 1.0 p.m.-All the writ- ings of Williams, alias Deeming, which are in the possession of the authorities, and are understood to embody an alleged confession of the Windsor murder, merely convey a repetition of his previous conflicting statements. On the other hand, it is pointed out that when praying in his cell just before the execution he was overheard asking forgiven'ss for the injury he had inflicted on hid family, and this is taken as a tacit admission of his guilt in the case of the Rainhill murders. The authorities have for the present decided to withhold Deeming's written statements, a decision doubtless due to the fact that no attempt has bcni made to thoroughly examine and compare them. The gaol doctors on visiting Deeming yestsrday stayed an hour and a half with him, urfMg'him at intervals to make a clear breast of everything- The criminal, however, replied curUý and resolutely, "I have nothing more to tdl." On the other hand the Herald publishes the report of an interview with the Rev Mr Scott, who was with the condemned man yesterday morning. The chaplain states that be exhorted him to unburden his soul, and not to go to his death with a lie on his lips. It was, however, useless, inasmuch as he adhered to his former story that he had only killed Mather. He added, I would be telling a lie if I admitted the Rain- hill crimes." He showed undoubted signs," Mr Scott continued, of a terrible conflict with. in, which led me to hope that he would confess." His whole biography is full of ribald allusions and fantastic vapouring, and contains no complete confession. Mr Scott added that the murderer handed him a letter of farewell, and also original verses, entitled "To GodlcalL" The letter of thanlcssays—"I dieaf ully penitentsinner andChris- tian;" and proceeds—" I still tell you, as I always have, that I did not intend to kill poor Emily nor did I know myself at the time that I did it, and I can only look upon my execution as mur- der. Still, death will be a relief. I should have died happy but for—[at this point the wretched man made reference in terms of reproach to Miss Rounsevell, but Mr Scott declines to give publicity to this portion of the letter.] The convict con- cludes as follows Thanking you with all my heart, I remain, yours very sincerely, F. B. DEEM- The verses above referred to, which were dated yesterday, evinced a strong religious tone. Mr Scott concluded as follows: Williams was themost extraordinary man I have ever met in the course of my long experience of prisoners and criminals. I am doubtful whether he should be classified as a splendid actor or as the subject of a diseased brain. I incline towards the latter view. He was a pleasant man to speak to until crossed. Then his eyes became tigerish and you could see the devil in him. 1 he last words he said to me were, If I saId I committed the Rainhill murders it would be a lie." The gaol officials declare that the execution was carried out with greater promptitude than any preceding one in victoria.—Reuter. A Telegraphic Feat. Deeming was executed on Monday morning at Melbourne at the hour of ten a.m., which by English mean time was 20 minutes after midnight —the difference of 145 deg. east. which is the meridian of Melbourne, being equal to nine hours, 40 minutes. Although the distance between the capital of victoria and London is as the bird flies, about 10,000 miles, and the circuit of the submarine cable by which the telegram was transmitted fully 14,000 miles, it was received in London at 1.45 a.m.—within an hour and 24 minutes from the time of execution. It usually takes four hours for a telegram to come from Australia to England, but special arrangements had been made for the despatch of this message, which came from Melbourne to Adelaide, thence to India, through Persia, and thus to England.
Attempted Murder in the Rhondda.…
Attempted Murder in the Rhondda. A YNYSHIR DOCTOR SHOT. Escape of the Assailant. What appears to have been a deliberate attempt at murder took place at Ynyshir, in the Rhondaa Fach Valley, at a. late hour on Monday night. The victim of the outrage was Dr John Lloyd Edwards, who is an assistant with Dr Ivor Lewis, of Cymmer, and has charge ot the Wattstown Colliery Surgery at Ynyshir. This gentleman, it appears, had spent the evening at Tylorstown, a colliery village four miles higher up the valley and returned home with the train arriving at Ynyshir shortly before 11 o'clock. Accom- panied by Mr Edwards, the Ynyshir stationma-sfcer, the doctor turned for a few moments into the Ynyshir Hotel, close by, and there met Mr Moore, the mechanical engineer of the Standard Colliery. At 11 o'clock these gentlemen left the hotel together, but before they had proceeded more than 30 yards up the road the report of a pistol was heard from behind, and Dr Edwards cried out, I am shot." A crowd of persons soon gathered around, and with the as- sitance of the gentlemen named, Mr John, of the Ynyshir Hotel, and others, Dr Edwards was escorted to the surgery of Dr H. Naun- ton Davies close by. Here he was examined, and it was found that a small bullet had struck the doctor beneath the left shoulder, and had penetrated deeply into his body. The injured man was at once removed to his lodgings, at 11, Incline-terrace, where he was visited during the night by Dr Poole, Dr Jones, Dr Ivor Lewis, and Mr Lewis, assistant to Dr Davies, of Porth, and all assistance that was possible, under the circumstances, was rendered. Up to a late hour on Tuesday night, however, the bullet had not been extracted, and the injured gentleman now lies in a very precarious condition. The sad affair has created the greatest excite- ment throughout the district, and deep indigna- tion is being expressed on all sides that so fonl and cowardly an outrage should have been com- mitted. The keenest disappointment is felt at the eseape of the would-be assassin, and the action of the Ystrad Local Board in allowing so populous a district to be entirely unprovided with gaslight on so dark a night, and so made an escape possible, meets with severe censure. Dr Lloyd Edwards is about M years of age, un- married, and a native of Dolgelly, North Wales. He came to Ynyshir about two years ago, and is exceedingly popular with the miners among whom be practices. Who was the Miscreant? The police have a strong clue as to the identity of the would-be assassin, and although the man suspected has for the present disappeared, they are confident.of being able to place their hands upon him in the course of a day or two. P;C. Llewellyn was on the spot when the outrage was committed, but while no was attending to Dr Edwards and ascertaining what had oc" curred, the miscreant fled. Mr Davies, butcher, was standing at the time at the corner of the street, a few yards below the spot where the in- cident occurred, and he declares that he saw it tall man rushfpast him,and run down South-street. Two" or three other persons now testify to having seen a man running in that direction a& the time, but, being ignorant of the outrage, they naturally attached no importance at the time to the fact. Several rumours are in circulation, and if these are to be credited, there should be no difficulty in tracing the crime to its author and in assigning a reason for the outrage. The police are, natur- ally, very reticent at present on the point, not desiring to afford any information that may lead to defeat the ends of justice and increase the difficulties of discovering their man. Mean- while, however, the name of a young fellow residing in Ynyshir is being pretty generally mentioned, and ample evidence is forthcoming that he had threatened to put a bullet into the doctor." It is surmised that he saw Dr Edwards enter the hotel, and then hid himself in a doorway until the doctor had passed back again, and that he then quietly crept up behind bim and fired the shot. Had Dr Edwards not turned round just at the moment to see who was behind, and so received the bullet under the shoulder. there seems every probability that he would have been shot dead on the spot. Interview with the Injured Gentleman. Our Pontypridd representative called upon Dr. Edwards on Tuesday afternoon, and found him lying in bed at his lodgings, 11, Incline-terrace, Ynyshir. The injured gentleman appeared very weak, but readily volunteered to give every in- formation with reference to the unfortunate event. "I had come down from Tylorstown with the 11 o'clock train= „ said the doctor^ in reply to questions put to him, and before going home turned for a few moments into the Ynyshir Hotel. I left there in company with Mr Moore, the mechanical engineer of the Standard Colliery,, and Mr Edwards, the stationmaster. They left a little before me, while I stayed behind for a few seconds to speak with Mr John, the landlord, who had called me back. When I joined my friends Mr Moore asked me for some weed). and I immediately handed him my tobacco. We were then about 30 yards from the hotel,—it' could not have been more. I thought I heard: someone running quietly up behind us, and I turned round to see who it was. The ftrsbthin I saw was a man standing about six yards behind with his right arm up-lifted. I beard a report,, saw a flash, and then cried out, I am shot.' "Did you recognise, the man?'—"No, it was much too dark for that." Was he short or tall?"—"I sboold-saythat he was tall." When you were shot did you fall down !"— "No. I felt a burning sensation underneath my left shoulder, and I knew I had been shot. My friends, however, would not believe it for a few minutes, and we stood together on the road. Subsequently I was taken to Dr. Davies's surgery close by." "Was it very dark?"—"Yes, it was exceed- ingly dark, and there were no lamps lit. There were several people about the road at the time." After the shot did you see anybody run away?"—No, no one." Have you any suspicion as to who wag your assailant"?—"None whatever. I do not know that anyone has a grudge against me. "It could not have been an accident?"—"No,it was not, for I could see the arm of the man point- ing to me." "Do you think your assailant could have recog- nised you ?"—" Well, I stayed behind for a few moments with Mr John, the landlord, at the door of the hotel, so that I walked behind my two friends until I overtook them." Additional Details. It is gratifying to learn that no fatal results are now anticipated to the murderous attempt made on Monday night upon the life of Dr. John Lloyd Edwards, of Ynyshir. The injured gentle- man is being assiduously attended to by Dr. Ivor Lewis, of Cymmer, and although he is in a very weak condition, and suffering intense pain, his ultimate recovery, provided no unforeseen symptoms develop, is practically assured. The bullet has not yet been extracted, and, it is said, cannot be traced, bat the medical gentlemen who have examined the wound agree that the missile did not pass through the thorax, and that in all probability it is embedded in the muscles of the armpit. The keenest sympathy is felt through- out the district with Dr. Edwards in the dastardly attack made upon him, and scores of persons called on Wednesday at his lodgings at Ynyshir to inquire as to his condition. The inhabitants of Ynyshir are loud in their denun- ciations of the crime, and are sorely pained that the fair fame of the village should thus be blotted.
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Au inquest was held on Wednesday evening as to the death of Police Constable Joseph Daniels, who died on Sunday morning while taking a prisoner to Bow-street police station. The medical evidence showed that the deceased, aged 27, had swallowed a set of false teeth which he wore, thus producing suffocation. A verdict of Accidental death was returned.
THE POLICE COURTS. ...
THE POLICE COURTS. Inhuman Parents. At Pontypool police-court on Saturday, James and Mary Ann Corbett were charged with cruelty to two children, aged respectively 10 and nine, by beating them and not prcvidmg them with proper clothing.—Mr A. H. Watkins prose- cuted on behalf the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and Mr L. E. Webb de- fended.—According to the evidence, the children had been treated with great inhumanity, being scantily clad and brutally beaten. On one occa- sion the father forced tha elder girl to drop from an upstairs window to a path below, a depth of nearly 10 feet, when she sustained shocking injuries.—For the defence it was stated that the child was given to staying out at nights and petty thefts.—Colonel Byrde comments in strong terms upon the cruelty displayed, and sentenced the male prison-rr to a month's hard labour.—The charges against the mother were withdrawn, Sunday Drinking at Merthyr. At the Mertbyr Police-court on Saturday, Thomas Jones, Parrot Inn, Quarry-row, was summoned for keeping his house open for the sale of beer on Sunday.—Mr J. W. Lewis de- fended.—Acting-Sergeant Davies, in company with P.C. Edwards and P.C. Williims, attired in plain clothes, watched the house for an hour or two, and carefully noted a number of visits which were made thereto by persons, some of whom carried" jocks," gave them to the land- lord, who presently returned them. Altogether fifteen men and three women entered the house. —Evidence vras called for the defence, but the magistrates came to the conclusion that a breach of the Act had been committed, and fined de- fendant £6 and endorsed the licence.—Several persons, summoned for being present on licensed premises on Sunday were each fined 10s and costs. A Child Burglar at Haverfordwest. At the Roose Petty Sessions, held at the Shire- hail on Saturday, Tommy Jones, a little boy aged nine, was charged with feloniously stealing 14s OVjjd from the house of a schoolmaster at Walton West, Little Haven. From the evidence «f P.C. Webb, it appeared that the house of the prose- cutor had been entered one evening while he was absent at cboir practice, and the money taken from a purae in the parlour. A small footprint bemg noticeable on a couch, suspicion fell upon the lad Jones, who resides only a short distance away, and on being taxed by the [constable he at first denied all knowledge of the affair, but subse- quently ^admitted that he had stolen the money, which was afterwards found hidden in different parts of the house. The lad's father was bound over in the sum of £20 to bring the child up for judgment when called upon. A Daring Thief at Pontypool. James Fisher, a Lancashire man, was charged at the Pontypool Petty Sessions on Saturday—before Colonel, Byrde and Mr W. L. Pratt—with stealing articles of wearing apparel, value £2 5s, the property of Wm. Harris, from his dwelling-house at Garndiffaith.—Accord- ing to the evidence, Mrs Harris left the house for a few minutes, and in returning heard a noise upstairs. She went up in time to see a man disappearing through the window. Boxes had been opened and clothes taken. Prisoner was found soon afterwards in possession of the stolen goods. He had been convicted of a similar offcnce, and was committed for trial. A Free Fight Defined. Joseph Botheridge and John White, two young men, appeared before the magistrates at Newport police-court to account for a pugilistic en- counter, in which they participated on Saturday last. The scene lay at the West- gate Hotel; both men had alighted from a tramcar. White went round to Botheridge and knocked him down, and what Officer Thomas described as a free fight took place. The Magi- strates' Clerk asked the officer's definition of a free fight. Coats off and hitting one another down," answered the officer. At the police- station both men said that it was a bit of jealousy concerning a .young woman, who was present when the incident took place.—White was now lined 10s and Botheridge 5s. Vaccination Impugned at Newport. At Newport borough police-court on Monday Lewis Edwin Summerfield, of 26, Caerleon-road, appeared and questioned the efficacy of vac- cination as a preventative for small pox. Mr Summerfield appeared to explain why the certificate of vaccination had not been returned to the registrar. The child in question was born in July last.—Defendant now reiterated his conscientious objections to vaccination.—De- fendant, in answer to the Court, said that he would not have the operation performed if the Court adjourned the case for that purpose. He quoted the report of the Royal Commission which is sitting on the question, and also brought to the notice of the Court a decision of the Cardiff Stfpendiary, who had dismissed a case similar to the one before the Court — The Bench pointed out that there was an out- break of small-pox at Swansea and Pembroke.— Defendant: Yes, in spite of vaccination.—The Bench said that it was their duty to administer the law, and fined defendant 10s.—Mrs Alfred Burge also appeared to answer for a similar neglect, and pleaded that several of her children had been ill in the interval sinoe the advent of the last baby. She was perfectly willing to have the operation performed.-The Bench thereupon adjourned the case to allow the vaccination to be carried out. Boarding Ships Without Permission. At the Cardiff police-court, on Monday— before the Stipendiary (Mr T. W. Lewis)—a man named Henry O'Brieu, of 43, George-street, described as a boarding-house runner, was sum- moned at the instance of the Board of Trade for being on board the s.s. Masonic, on the 15th inst., before the crew had been discharged, and without having the permission of the captain.— Mr Vanderpump, who appeared to prosecute, proved the case, and stated that it was a common practice for these boarding-house runners to go on board vessels before their crews were discharged, and in many instances they persuaded seamen on board foreign vessels, who had signed for the outward voyage, to desert their ships, and thus afford them (the boarding-house people) an opportunity of shipping a fresh crew. The penalty for such an offeace was £20, or six months' imprisonment.—The Stipendiary inflicted a fine of £4- and costs, or a month's imprisonment in default of distress. Overloading at Penarth. At Penarth police-court on Monday—before Mr J. S. Corbett and Councillor T. Morel—W. Mah- wood, master of the s.s. Ashley. of Belfast was summoned at the instance of the Board of Trade for overloading his vessel at Barry Dock, on the 10th of February last to the extent of 85 tons odd, sufficient to submerge the regulation disc by three inches, contrary to the Merchant Shipping Act. Mr Ivor VaehelJ prosecuted, the defendant being represented fey Mr Morgan Rees. A fine of £25 and costs or a month's imprisonment was imposed. Defend- ant was not able to appear, and Mr Rees, on his behalf, stated that he pleaded guilty, but desired to say that there was no intention on his part to break the law. The vessel was a new one, and this being her first cargo the builders advised as to the amount of coal cargo she would probably carry, so 3,300 tons were put aboard her. He urged in mitigation, too, that at the time of the offence no displacement scale bad been furnished by the Board of Trade to either defend- ant or the owners. A summons against Mr J. Thompson, captain of the ss. Floss, for overloading on the 5th of November last was adjourned until the next court. Extensive Shop Robberies at Newport. At Newport police-court on Monday, John Cooper and John Burnett were charged on remand with a series of shop robberies from the premises of Commercial-street and Commercial- road tradesmen. The thefts took place on the afternoon of Saturday week. The initial theft was from the shop doorway of Messrs Griffiths, a suit of clothes being taken. Prisoners were caught in the act, and the clothes taken from Burnett, who was drunk at the time. There were also thefts from th? pre- mises of Mr W. H. Gosling, Messrs Williams and Smith, and Mr W. Evans, from whom boots and clothes were taken. Prisoners were arrested by Officers Dukelow and Nurs"sy, in the Rifleman's Arms, in the act of putting on some of the stolen articles. A portion of the stolen property had also been sold. The modus operandi was for one to lift the articles from the shop doorways whilst the other kept watch. Cooper, it now transpired, had undergone two previous terms of imprisonment under the name of Dennis Callaghan, and the men were sentenced to three months' imprison- ment on each charge, 12 months in aIL Dog Keepers Beware. On Monday, at Penarth police-court—the magistrates present being Mr J. S. Corbett and Councillor T. Morel—William aad Evan Rad. cliffe, farmers, Peterston; Charles Iscar, 1, Ferry-Ian-, Fenarth Mary Deere, 7, Maughan- terrace, Penarth and Elizabeth Matthews, 24, Ivy-lane, Penarth, were summoned by the Inland Revenue authorities for keeping dogs without licences. The prosecutions were conducted by Mr John Beer, supervisor of the Cardiff district, and a plea cf guilty was practicallv en- tered in each case, though Mr Ingram (Messrs Downing and Handcock) represented the Rad- cliffe's. The usual excuses were advanced, but fines were inflicted, varying from 5s to 7s 6d with costs, amounting in the first case to 12. 3d. In the Cardiff district there have been 5,000 prosecu- tions during the past 51/2 years, and Mr Beer has at present in hand 50 summonses, which will be heard within the next month. Adulterated Milk at Cardiff. Mary Ann Baker, milk seller, of 130, Clive- street, was summoned at the Cardiff police-court on Monday—before the Mr T. W. Lewis—for selling adulterated milk. The defendant ad- mitted the offence. The stipendiary stated that according to the borough analyst the milk in question contained as high a percentage as 15 per cent. of water added. It was a very serious matter, and she would be fined JB5 and costs or one month's imprisonment. He warned her if she was brought there again for such an offence she I would probably be fined £20 and costs. Prosecution of Butchers. police-court, on Monday—before Mr T. P. Jenkins (in the chair). Mr D. W. D vies, Mr T. Jones, and Mr W. Jenkins—the Ystrad Local Board summoned John Partitt, butcher. Hafod, for not providing proper receptacles for blood at his slaughter-house. The date of the alleged offence was 11th of May, and the case was proved by Dr James and the inspector of nuisances. Mr W. C. Matthews represented the defendant. who did not appear. A fine of £2 and costs was inflicted. Subsequently the defendant appeared in court and said he had lost the train. Heap plied for a new trial, and pointed out that the receptacle in question had been allowed by the Board for 16 years, a.nd as be was only served with the summons on Saturday night he had had no time to instruct his solicitor. The request was refused,—For a similar offence, Wm. Coles, butcher, Porth (for whom Mr Matthews appeared), was fined £ L An Hotel Thief at Newport. At Newport Town-hall on W ednesday, W. Brown, ship's steward, of no fixed abode, was charged oa remand with stealing a Gladstone bag and aa overcoat from the Queen's Hotel, the property of Ernest James Collins, a commercial traveller staying at the hotel also a suit of clotbes, 7s 6d, and other property from the Westgate Hotel, the property of Charles Hobbs and Thomas Bradbury and an overcoat from the shop of Abrahamson, pawnbroker, Tredegar- place. On Monday afternoon week prisoner appeared to have arrived at Newport, and immediately began operations. The Magis- trates' Clerk was curious to elicit from Webb, the" boots" at the Queen's, when and how the prisoner arrived, but the boots could not say: he walked in at the front door and up- stairs with the assurance of a visitor who had already secured a bed, and took the bug and over- coat from a bedroom. On his way along Trede- gar-place he went into the shop of Mr Abraham- son to pledge the overcoat, but did i do so. He, however, took Mr Abrahamson's overcoat away with him, and, thus equipped, went to the Westgate Hotel, where he engaged a bed, and gave his bona ■tides as a traveller with Singer's Sewing Machine Company. He cleared out the available portable property from two bedrooms occupied by barmen, and then went out to pledge one of the overcoats. When arrestifd priso- ner said to Inspector WinmiU, Don't be hard make it as light as you can drink is the cause of it." Prisoner now assumed a most accommodating attitude towards the Court. When challenged whether he had any question to ask the first witness called, he said, No I am guilty of every- thIng; I will thank you to sentence me; I am guilty of it all."—Head-Constable Sinclair said that during the week enquiries had been made as to prisoner's antecedents, but he had not been convicted before. The Court went laboriously through the evidence in the three cases, humour rippling around on the naive explanations given by the "boots" atthe Westgate. when desrib- ing how prisoner fee'd him with a shillingand two of Mr Collins's handkerchiefs, and how later he at; once guessed that it was No. 18 (the number of prisoners bedroom) who had the stableman's suit of clothes.—The Bench said that although there was no conviction against the prisoner, he had been at Barry, on board the Allegiance, and at the Barry Sailors' Home, and other places, and from all of these things had been missed. He would be sentenced to two months' imprisonment on each case—six months' imprisonment in all.
ATTEMPTED TRIPLE MURDER AT…
ATTEMPTED TRIPLE MURDER AT HUDDERSFIELD. On Saturday afternoon a triple attempt at murder took place at Huddersfield. A man named George Graves, aged 23 years, formerly a coachman, but lately a smith's striker, and more recently out of work, who has been living apart from his wife, went in the afternoon to her fathers house, where she had taken refuge, and had an interview with her which resulted in high words. During the altercation, it is alleged that he drew a six-chambered revolver and shot his wife in the right temple. Her father, named Luke Berry, immediately rushed to her assistance, as did also the woman's brother, Albert. A desperate struggle ensued, during which Albert Berry was shot twice, oue bullet shattering the bridge of bis nose, and th secoud striking him in the chest. He fell to the ground, and Graves is then stated to have fired at and wounded his father-in-law, at the same time drawing from his pocket a butcher's knife and then stabbing the unfortunate man under the left shoulder-blade, the knife penetrating to the lungs. The neighbours now appeared on the scene, and Graves was secured and taken from Lockwood, a suburb where the event occurred, to the borough police-station. In the meantime several medical men were summoned and attended to the three victims, who were subse- qcently removed to the Infirmary, where the doctors have the gravest doubts with regard to their injuries. At Huddersfield, on Monday, G. Graves, aged 23 years, a striker, of Rastrick, was brought before the borough magistrates charged with attempting to murder his wife and her father and brother. On the application of the Chief Constable, the accused was remanded for a week. On inquiry at the Infirmary on Monday it was stated that Luke Berry, the father-in-law, whose lungs are effected, was slightly better, and that the other two patients were making satif factory progress.
SMfctL-POX AT BLANA.
SMfctL-POX AT BLANA. A Case Fmported from Pembroke Dock. On Friday Dr G. H. Browne, of Brynmawr, reported to the Surveyor of the Nantyglo and Blaina Local Board that a woman in River row, Blaina, the wjfo of Thomas Cokum was affected with small-pox. The sur- veyor at ICkIoe called a meeting of his Board, when the chairman, together with four other,jjnembers of the Board and Dr H. C. /iBwran, medical officer of health, attended to consider what steps were best to be taken, there heing no provision "Whatever in the distritiffor the isolation of infectious diseases. It was decided to isolate the case of small-pox by converting the Blaina Lawn Tennis Club pavilion into a temporary infectious diseases hospital, the officers being empowered to engage the necessary nurses, and fit up the pavilion for the reception of the patient. It appears that the disease has been imported by a lodger staying at the house affected, and who only came here from Pembroke Dock some three weeks ago, and had since been taken very ill with inflammation, from which he died about half-past eight on Friday evening. The medical opinion is that the lodger's clothes were infected, and that it was in this way the case arose. Upon the husband of the woman affected being informed of the advisability of removing his wife, he at once made strong objections, and would not consent to her removal. Our Blaina reporter, writing on Saturda7 evening, states that the surveyor of the Local Board received a certificate from Dr. Browne, who attended the woman, authorising her removal to the pavilion. A certificate was also obtained from the Rev Howell Howell, fustico of the peace, in accordance with the "Public Heaith Act," with respect to the removal of small-pox patients.—The officers of the Board having completed all arrangements for her removal, proceeded on Saturday evening, with an ambu. lance carriage, to the house of the patient, but was there obstructed by the husband of the woman in carrying out the order of removal. The case in question is not of a malignant form, but is none the less infectious. The lodger who died in the house from inflam- mation was buried at Blaina Cemetery on Saturday. All his clothing has been destroyed by the officials of the Board. Another Case Reported. Our Blaina reporter, telegraphing on Monday, states that another case of small-pox is reiwrted. It appears that the person suffering was up to last Wednesday acting in the capacity of a servant girl to Mrs Cokum (the woman affected with small-pox). On Saturday evening last the girl. who is about 15 years of age, shewed signs of illness, and Dr H. C. Bevan, the Medioai Officer of Health, was called in. He then enter- tained a strong suspicion that the girl was affected with small-pox, and acquainted the Sur- veyor (Mr Stevens) of it. On Sunday Dr Bevan, DrJ. H. Soper, and the Surveyor visited the patient, and then Dr Bevan declared it to be a case of small-pox. The father of the child, however, refused to allow his daughter to be removed to the pavilion. Dr Bevan then thought of the houses being built by the Blaina Cottage Building Company at Biaina, and it was found that one of thehonses was fit for habitation, and upon Dr Bevan going at once to some of the members of the Building Company, he had their consent to convert the house into a temporary infectious diseases hos- pital, and thought it wise to hire six of the houses. The father of the child consented to her removal to the house, and all preparations were at once made for the reception of the patients. A great deal of difficulty was ex- perienced in obtaining a nurse, but eventually the services of a man and his wife were secured. The patient was removed at ten o'clock on SUD- day night with every care and precaution. The medical officer of health and the surveyor waited upon Mr Cokum on Sunday evening with a view to gaining his consent to remove his wife to the house, but utterly failed in the endeavour. The Outbreak at Pembroke Dock. At the Pembroke police-court, on Monday, Dr Morison (Deputy Mayor), before commencing the business, said his attention had been drawn to the Western Mail of that day, from which it appeared that that paper continued its charges against the authorities of the borough, and insinuated that smallpox bad been introduced to Blaina from Pembroke Dock. It was a well- known fact that they had a well-fitted hospital, and that the medical officer, sanitary inspector, and the naval and military surgeons had done all they could to stop the spread of the: disease, and they had succeeded; but he could not see that they could sit down at the railway station and say this man or that man shall not go by train. With regard to the maa at Blaina who was said to have died of smail-po*, there was a policeman in the court at that moment who had a letter in his pocket stating that the man (who was a distant relative of the constable)'had died of pleurisy. Dr REYNOLDS (the medical officer of the borough) I should like to say that the inspector wired to Blaina this morning and obtained the name ot the young man. It is White." Dr MORISON Just so that is the man I refer to. Mr GILBERTSON, solicitor, observed that be had noticed the malignity of these articles in the Western Mail. What the reason for these malig- nant attacks on the borough was he was at a loss to understand, unless it was done merely to sell the paper. (Hear. hear.) Dr REYNOLDS: There was not even a case in the street in which this young man lived.
ANOTHER OCEAN RECORD.
ANOTHER OCEAN RECORD. The Inman steamer City oi New York arriwd in the Mersey on Wednesday from N "w York. Her voyage, which occupied 6 daye 20 mianta* was the fastest Eastern journey on reoord.
TERRIBLE BOATING FATALITY.
TERRIBLE BOATING FATALITY. (ZURXCHi Mon(jay.—A very sad beating fatality •furred this morning on Lake Zurich. A number 1 young" ladies, pupils at a school attached to the at Wurmspach wcro out for a sail the lake, when the boat capsized, and in a R °niont 15 persons were struggling in the water. were able to seiz* the ropes, and some °»tmg wood, and supported themseles till res- by boats, but seven young ladies sank before "•-sistance could reach them.—Renter.
A SILLY QUARREL AND ITS RESULTS.
A SILLY QUARREL AND ITS RESULTS. b BUDAPEST, Tuesday.—A duel with pistols, which "ad a tragic ending, was fought here this °rnin? between two notable members of Hun- folfn society. The quarrel arose under the j^'iowiiig circumstances. On the 6th of June the is to visit Budapest for the purpose of of Vi the iubilee of his coronation as King ]yj unRary. In his State entry into the city his i aJesty is to be accompanied by a so-called anderium, abrilliantescortof Hungarian nobles on of°^back in all the magnificent native costumes ^yar magnates. There has been great rivalry *j?°Qgst the young nobles to take part in this j \aca,de, and among others Karsaf, a great th^ i-Wner' Put ^orwar<^ a claim to be included in e list. M. Karsaf, who is a Jew, was, how- excluded. Taking great umbrage at this, which he held Baron Aczel, a pro- tnnent member of the Lower House of let, primarily responsible, be sent his conds to this gentleman and a meeting took P ^Ce this morning. M. Karsaf was seriously tt^ di his adversary's bulJet striking him in d e breast. He was at once attended to by the ctors present on the ground, and as soon as possible removed to a neighbouring house, but no OPe is entertained of bis recovery.—Renter.
A GOVERNMENT STEAMER LOST.
A GOVERNMENT STEAMER LOST. Th IRIR°RRA' BRITISH COLUMBIA, Wednesday.— }J/5 ywernment steamer Quadra has been totally Barclay Sound, while on the way to the fes« ^9a" Among those on board was Pro- thn^ri ^accoun, who had been commissioned by Government to obtain details of seal life.
DESTITUION IN AUSTRALIA.
DESTITUION IN AUSTRALIA. Wednesday.-The situation of the un- yed: malQy of whom arepfinniless, is causing ttie anxiety. The New South Wales Govern- ent has made arrangements to prevent destitute rsons from starving. Although 6,000 men are registered on the books of the Labour Bureau, estimated that only 3,000 are seeking work.— ter.
DISASTROUS FLOODS IN AMERICA,
DISASTROUS FLOODS IN AMERICA, ^URIANNA (Arkansas), Wednesday.—It is esti- 10,000 persons inhabiting the low- fiv uU banks of St. Frances and White ,Vers have been rendered homeless by the floods. J lrty-two persons are reported to hare been 'Owned in that region.—Renter.
SUICIDE AT SEA.
SUICIDE AT SEA. RW YORK, Wednesday.—Mr John Henry, a lon passenger of the Inman steamer City of j&tis, jumped overboard on the voyage from agland, and was drowned.—Renter.
THE VIENNA MURDERS.
THE VIENNA MURDERS. viBKNA, Wednesday.—Some children were Paying to-day in the Haspel Wald, near Neu r^gbach, the scene of the murders committed y Schneider and his wife last summer, when hey came upon the naked body of a woman in n advanced stage of decomposition. Little °Ubt is entertained that the body of Schneider's OUrth victim, which has been missing since the rrpetration of the murder, has thus at length een discovered. The police authorities are in- stigating the affair thoroughly.—Renter.
THE GERMAN EMPEROR.
THE GERMAN EMPEROR. Extraordinary Allegations. PiccadiUy revives the rumour concerning the mental condition of the German Emperor, and pis time in more serious fashion. "With con- sIderable regret, but compelled by a sense of duty," our contemporary states that, besides a ereditary predisposition to a very distressing; olD. of mental malady, the Kaiser suffers from a; alnfulJy diseased condition of one side of the ead, which from time to time leads to an acute ervous crisis. This, Piccadilly adds—again, we' SUPPOse, compelled by "by a sense of duty"— nfcf exP^a'n many of his Majesty's acts and which, if taken seriously, would lead th most disastrous consequences."
THE ROBBERY FROM CAPTAIN VERNEY.
THE ROBBERY FROM CAPTAIN VERNEY. At Crewe on Tuesday, Wm. Wrightman, of ■^arlstown, was charged with the theft of a bag p1" £ 20 cash belonging to Captain Verney. ~&ptain and Mrs Verney were passengers from ^ondon to Bangor on the 12th instant, and Crewe Station lost a bag containing P^h an,d other articles. The prisoner a<3 been seen at Crewe Station just Previously and disappeared. He was afterwards jound spending money freely. Nearly £ 10 were *ound in his possession, which he said he had tound in the highway between Warrington and yhester. It had since transpired that the money In Captain Verney's bag was only £10. The company now did not offer any evidence against the accused, and the magistrates thereupon dis- charged him. The prisoner was immediately re- vested by the Chester police on a charge of ltealhlg a purse and £10 from a farmer at Chester.
A DUKEDOM FOR PRINCE GEORGE.
A DUKEDOM FOR PRINCE GEORGE. The Central News is officially informed that he 5P»een has been graciously pleased to confer the "ignity of a peerage of the United Kingdom SPon his Royal Highness Prince George of J^ales, K.G., by the name, style, and title of ij^ke of York, Earl of Inverness, and Baron of *-ularney, There is once more a Duke of York. The title, as announced above, is conferred BPon Prince George of Wales, together with that Earl of Inverness and Baron of Killarney. b e new Duke will thus bear the titles of two of Queen's uncles. The last Duke of York was f'fince Frederick, the second son of George III., who was so long Commander-in-Chief, and who dIed in 1827. The title of Earl of Inverness was borne by the Duke of Sussex, the brother of the jasfc Duke of York. There is something peculiarly JO teres ting in the revival of a title which belongs 10 the history of the British Monarchy. If the ^ociatmns which srather around the Dukedom or York are not all of them such as the world p8res to cherish, the name is at least a link be- JWeen the present and the past, and the new York will no doubt give it all the lustre
TYPHOID FEVER AT CAERPHILLY
TYPHOID FEVER AT CAERPHILLY Groat anxiety is being felt amongst the in- habitants of this township owing to the existence of typhoid fever in their midst. Three fresh cases were reported on Monday, which brings the total number to fourteen. Most of these are children under two years of age, though jthere are four patients about seven- teen years of age, and two adults, a man and a woman. Dr. Thomas who has had a large experience in combatting, this particular malady, informed one of our representatives on Monday that of the whole number of patients now under his charge only one or two could be regarded as seriously affected. All the patients attacked reside in one portion of the town—in Cardiff-road, within a few yards from the station. Investigations which have been made as to the cause of the outbreak lead to the conclusion that it is the result of the poisonous vases rising from certain cf the drains. There is uo reason to believe that the malady is due to the milk supply. Samples of the water and milk supplies are to be submitted for analy- isation. In view of the fresh cases reported on Monday, the medical men redoubled their efforts to check any further spread, and it is hoped that with care and vigilance the disease will soon be stamped out.
SUICIDE AT CARDIFF.
SUICIDE AT CARDIFF. On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held at the Town-hall, Cardiff—before Mr E. B. Reece, coroner—respecting the death of James Sparks, aged 21, who lived in South William-street, Docks, and died from the effects of a bullet wound in the head, believed to have been self. in6icted.-Evidence was given by Dr Cook, of James-street, Docks, as to the nature of the injuries, and the father and brother of the de- ceased deposed to his having been very strange in his manner of late, consequent, as it appeared, upon his having studied very hard in order to pass the examination for becoming a naval engineer.-— The jury returned a verdict of suicide while in a state of temporary insanity.
THE PROPOSED CARDIFF NEW STOCK.
THE PROPOSED CARDIFF NEW STOCK. 3 Per Cent. and 1°.7 Minimum. At a meeting of the Cardiff Finance Com- mittee on Wednesday, Aid. Sanders presiding, it was resolved, on the motion ot Councillor T. Morel, seconded by Councillor Trounce, the Town Clerk was instructed to prepare a pro- spectus of the issue of the whole amount which the Corporation have powers to borrow, that the minimum at which the stock should be issued be £107, and that the rate of interest be 3 per cent. and that a meeting of the Counci- be called, as early as possible, to pass the statu. tory resolution authorising the London and West- minster Bank to raise the stock.
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"TOBACCONISTS COMMENCING. "—Illd. Guide, 3d. a-Tobacconiste' OutflWm* Co.. 186, Euston-r^L. l>ondo«
REMINISCENCES OF CARDIFF.…
REMINISCENCES OF CARDIFF. TALES OF THE TOWNSFOLK. (By Caerdyddian.) VIEW OF CARDIFF FROM THE CASTLE, 1838. t The above view of Cardiff shows the old Town Hall (in the middle of High-street) and the Glass Works in the distance. These latter stood where Mount-stuart-square has since been built; and long after the manufacture of bottles had been discontinued the buildings were utilized (till about 1860) as stables for the canal horses. It is difficult to recall the Cardiff of 50 or 60 years ago, for the incidents and events which would be the most interesting were allowed to pass without record. The town has changed even more than is generally recognised, in social organisation no less than in physical features. When the workhouse stood in St Mary-street where the post-office now is, the clerk could and did step across to the old market and buy the supplies of food for the inmates. That market was entered from Duke-street, and High-street; the entry that now leads to Messrs Taylor's photographic studio was the way .from Duke-street. Among the records still kept by the Board of Guardians is (or, rather, was until recently) a book containing entries of these daily purchases and "one pound of batter" figures as an item there. What would the: present workhouse master say totransaotions! :on such a scale ? Talking of records, iwe may note the old rate books so .religiously preserved by Mr Ho wells, vestry clerk of St. Mary's, among them one for 1816, giving the names of all the persons rated in thatryear and the amount of assessment upon each. The whole amount received on account of a rate of four shillings in the pound was only 2904. 'and this from both St John's and St Mary's, showing a rateable value of £ 4-,520. In December last (1891) the rateable value of the two parishes was £ 527,721 and a 4s rate would therefore produce over ;CIODOOO. WEST TOLL-GATE AND BRIDGE OVER WHITE HOUSE BROOK. I The above represents the West Toll Gate, which stood about the spot now occupied by Dr Pearse's house on the corner of Cathedral- road. It is copied by permission from the I original picture in possession of Mr W. Lester Jones. The bridge in the fore- ground passes over the White House Brook, the last remains of which are now being filled in on a portion of Mr Treseder's nursery ground off Cathedral-road which has-been taken for building sites. lhave seen the member, Mr Nicholl, chaired, the chair was all covered w'th flowers, and men .carried it on their shoulders," stated one old townsman in answer to inquiries, "and I have seen a-man in the stocks by Cardiff pump. That was the pump that used to be at the end of Running Camp, looking towards Crockherbtown. My grandmother heard John Wesley preach in Cardiff." Mr Nicholl was M.P. for Cardiff from 1832 till 1852, when he was beaten by Mr Walter Coffin. Running Camp was the narrow thoroughfare which ran from the end of St John's-square towards Crockberbtown, there being a block of houses in the middle of the road- way now called Queen street. John Wesley's visit we referred to last week, noting that his evangelistic labours were unacceptable to the rabble, who got a dead fox and made up a mock hunt to disturb the preacher. "The tide used to come up from the sea, and you wouldn't see a vestige of land right up to Cowbridge-road and right away to the Leckwith- hill. Ib was one sheet of water. You can see how it was if ever you go up the hill. The way to Penarth was round by Leckwith. Then they made the embankment and kept the tide out. When I was a boy we used to go nutting in Leckwith Woods; and I've heard the owls boot- j ing on Canton Common as we came home at night. The river used to come in to the quay, near Quay-street; and there wereslaughter-houses where you seethe county offices. All Bute Town was a marsh there were brick-yards, rope-walks, and like that. Later on—oh, till quite lately-it was open space right down to Patrick-street, down to the old Dry Dock, Hodge's place. The canal used to be; full of small craft, full and they shipped iron from the Cyfartha Sheds, and all along there. Ah, it was a busy place was the old canal in those days. Big vessels that couldn't come in were loaded by lighters outside in the river." "What was the size of the town as far back as you can remember, say sixty years ago?" I" From Cardiff Arms to where the Taif Vale Railway Bridge is now that's the Spital. And from Duke-street to the Bute Bridge, the canal bridge." Hayes Bridge?" No, the canal bridge in Bute-street, near Spiller's offices. You went out as far as about the Taft Bridge at the end of Bute- terrace. All beyond that, that way, was fields. The East Moors were pastures, intersected with dykes. The Jail was a very small affair; and it was surrounded by fields. Where the Eagle Hotel is now, there was a horse pond and from where Davie-atreet is now, there was along road called the Long Dyke, leading right down to the sea- shore, and on each side was a ditch. That used to be a favourite walk of mine. It was very pleasant on the Moors. Sometimes the tide used to come up. I've often seen the tide right up to the Old Cemetery. What is now the University College was the Infirmary and'there were two red brick houses. After them there was nothing right away to Roath House and Roath Court; and there were a ifew cottages there and a smithy. I've seen ploughing matches where Brighton-terrace is, in the field between the University ,College and Roath-road Wesleyan ChapeL" c. What,do-you remember of the main street, St. Mary-street, say ?"—" Where Masters' shop is, used to be the house of Alderman Thomas Charles. There was a private house where the Queen's Hotel is, wfth a, garden down to the river; Mr Riphard Williams, solicitor, lived there; and Mr Watkins, father of Mr Watkins and his brother, you know, the registrar. The judges used to stay there; it was the-judges' lodging. There-was Cardiff Mill down about, where the Theatre Royal is the river ran along from the quay behind the Queen's and the Royal, and just by the theatre turned out towards the station, and the mill was about .where the theatre is. Batchelor's timber yard was at the end of St. Mary-street. We went to see a vessel launched, the William Rogg; she was built where the fire-engine station is." The Eisteddfod of 1834 realised a sum of £ 350 for the erection of the Infirmary; but the greatest benefactor Of that li&Hlbtttion was Mr Daniel Jones, of Beaupre, who by donations during his lifetime and by his will gave a total sum of P,11,000 towards its establish- ment. The Infirmary building opened in 1837, is described as having been erected at the sole expense of Daniel Jones, of Beaupre." The old building was enlarged in 1866 and the work transferred to the new buildings, corner of Glossop-road, in 1883-4. "They used to bring produce into Cardiff on sledges, but that was before my time," states another old Cardiffian; the roads were so bad. Coals were brought over the hills in sacks on mules' backs; that's coal for the houses, not to send away. A post- woman brought the mail over Caerphilly Moun- tain I've had many a ride with old Betty. When the London mail came in to the Angel, people used to go there to get the news. The paper was read out in the bar. We used' to get little news then; and every- one wanted to hear what the London papers said. The town was a small place when I was a boy. The end of St Mary-street it was nearly all small houses and there were courts and little gardens. [In the Free Library are photographs of several of the old courts and alleys, removed during later years.] At the bottom, where the Penarth 'bus office is, were five or six thatched cottages; and there was a timber yard, Jenkin Jones's. Then old Pride, the Bristol carrier, had his wharf where the Vestry Clerk's office is. On the opposite side was a lot of little cottages with grass plots in front of the- and they used to bring the cows to milk there. It was fields all round, then; country. The cows fed on the moor and were brought in to be milked. There was no Mayor in those days; it was Port Reeve, and Mr Pritchard was holder of the office. He lived in Church-street; the property belonged to him—Boyle's, near the Church, now. After- wards, be went to live in Bute-street. I remember the arch in Trinity street that you gave a picture of last week. At that time, the corner house of Church-street and St. Mary.street, where Dobbin is now, was the bank—Towgood's. Towgood lived at Gabalva, a fine old mansion, gone now. Dear me, I remem- ber Bute-street when there were only two houses in it."
THE REPRESENTATION OF DEAN…
THE REPRESENTATION OF DEAN FOREST. Although it was announced at the beginning of last week that Mr Maynard Willoughby Col- chester Wemyss was coming forward as a Con- servative, to oppose the return of Sir Charles Dilke for Dean Forest, as the result it was stated of a meeting held in Gloucester the previous Saturday, yet, as a matter of fact, that meeting did not take place till Saturday last. This meet- ing was held in the Raikes' Meinorial-hall, and thj attendance was very large and thoroughly representative.—Mr T. H. Deakins, Parkend, a Liberal Unionist, was voted to the chair, and Mr Wemyss delivered a short address.—Mr B. St. John Ackers, Huntley Manor, Conservative, pro- posed, and Sir Wm. Marling, Liberal Unionist, seconded the resolution approving of the selection of Mr Wemyss to represent the Unionist cause. The motion was carried amid great enthusiasm. -It is a curious coincidence that the proposer and seconder of the motion were the rival candi- dates for the old West Gloucester seat, vacated in 1885 by Col. Kingscote, which, in the result, was won by Mr Ackers, for whom throughout the contest Mr Wemyss acted as agent.
EAST CARMARTHENSHIRE LIBERAL…
EAST CARMARTHENSHIRE LIBERAL ASSOCIATION. Annual Meeting at Llanelly. The annual meeting of the East Carmarthen- shire Liberal Association was held at the Liberal Club, Llanelly, on Monday afternoon, Dr. Howell Rees, J.P. (Garnant) presiding. There was a large number of delegates present from the follow- ing associations: — Amman Valley, Caio and Llancrwys, Llandilo, Llandovery, Lian- gadock, Llangennech, Pembrey, and Llanelly.— On the motion of Mr Tom Hughes, seconded by Mr D. J. Jones, Ammanford, Mr Joseph Joseph, Llangennech, was elected president for the ensuing year.—It was resolved that the chair- men of the branch associations compose the vice-presidents. Mr James Rees, Garnant, was re-elocted treasurer and Messrs D. J. Jones, Ammanford, and W. Howell, Llanelly, were elected secretaries. The executive committee was re-elected, Mr Oswell Jones, Llandilo, being appointed in the place of Mr Griffith Jones (de- ceased).-Votes of thanks to the retiring pre- sident (Mr J. W. Gwynne Hughes) and other officers brought the proceedings to a close.—The meeting was adjourned to re-consider the selec- tion of an executive committee.
- BIRTHDAY HONOURS.
BIRTHDAY HONOURS. The Queen has been pleased to confer the dignity of a peerage of the United Kingdom upon the Right Hon. Sir Henry Selwin Ibbetson, Bart., M.P., and Sir Evelyn Baring, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., her Majesty's Ag^nt and Consul- General at Cairo.
IA FAMILY POISONED.
I A FAMILY POISONED. I Particulars transpired on Monday morning of a strange case of poisoning of a family I named East, who recently took a small shop at Stratford, Essex. On Sunday Mrs East made a plum pudding, and as the dough seemed to be too wet she took a quantity of what appeared to be flour from a jar which stood in the shop and mixed it with the other ingredients. After dinner the family became ill and towards the evening a friend who called sent for a doctor, who at once found that it was a ease of poisoning. The father, Thomas East, aged fifty-six, died at seven o'clock at night, and his wife, Sophia East, aged 54, died in West Ham Hospital on Monday. Edward East, a son, aged 18, is lying in the same hospital in a critical condition, but a grand- son, who also ate some of the pudding, has sufficiently recovered to be sent home. The medical men believe the substance added to the pudding was arsenic, and the jar containing the remainder of the powder is now in the hands of the police.
SUICIDE OF A SCHOOLBOY.
SUICIDE OF A SCHOOLBOY. The dead body of a boy named Black wall, aged 15, a student at Trent College, near Nottingham, was found on Saturday night in a field adjoining the College buildings. A tx>ttle containing a small quantity laudanum was by his side, and medical evidence indicated that he had poisoned himself. Iu deceased's pockets some lines in Latin were discovered in- dicating an intention to destroy himself. The jury on Monday night returned a verdict of suicide. Deceased, who was described as showing great proxuise as ft scholar, was the son of A Nottingham manufacturer.
COLLIERY FATALITY NEAR LLANELLY.
COLLIERY FATALITY NEAR LLANELLY. On Tuesday morning a man named John Hopkins, 60 years of age, was crushed to death at the Tumble Colliery» Llanon. He was en- gaged at work at a screen, which was connected with a "crusher of coal. His clothes are sup- posed to have become entangled with the cogs, and thus his body was brought into contact with the machinery. The deceased was a native of Carmarthen, and leaves a wife to mourn his loss.
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=r =- MR GLADSTONE. Mr Gladstone gave a dinner party on Saturday to a number of his political friends at Carlton House Gardens. The gueata included Lord Aberdeen, Lord Houghton, Sir Lyon Playfair, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Mr Labouchere, Mr Dillon, Professor Stuart, "^ng'ey, Mr Bertham Currie, and the Hon- J!* • f1- James. After the dinner Mr and Mrs Gladstone drove to Dollia Sill. I
SOUTH WALES NEWS.f .
SOUTH WALES NEWS. f CARDIFF. SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr E. B. Reece, district coroner, held an inquest at the Town-hall, on Wednesday, touching the death of Ann Corrigan, a widow, aged 53, who expired suddenly at her residence, 12, Little Frederick-street, on the 23rd inst. After hearing the evidence of the deceased's medical attendant, Dr Downing, the jury returned a verdict of "Death from natural causes." RESCUED FROM DROWNIKG.—On Wednesday evening a boy named Daniel O'Connell, aged six years, living in Gough-street, had a narrow escape from drowning. He was playing along the canal near the Custom House Bridge and fell in. Luckily a ship's carpenter named James Jones, of 14, Peel-street, was passing at the time and at once jumped in, rescuing the boy as be was sinking. Drill-Instructor Foster, being on duty near the canal, was soon on the spot and had the boy, who was in an exhausted condition, conveyed to his home. SWANSEA. BREACH OF CONTRACT.—At the Swansea County-conrt, on Wednesday—before Judge Gwilym Williams—Mr W. W. Masters, broker, of Swansea, sued Mr T. H. Williams, a tin- plate box manufacturer, of Trowbridge, for the recovery of £14 His damages for breach of con- tract. Mr Glascodine was for the plaintiff, and Mr Meager for the defendant. For the plaintiff it-was said that in September last correspondence passed between the parties by which defendant was to deliver 3,000 boxes of a certain size, and 2,000 smaller ones at Aberdylais station. These never arrived, though defendant had written to plaintiff saying they were already packed and would be sent on.—After hearing defendant, a verdict was returned for plaintiff for CRUELTY TO A DONKEY.—Atthe Swansea police- court, on Monday, James Wood, a Pedlar-street boy, was brought up on remand charged with cruelty to a donkey on May 12th. P.C. Cuff descnbed again the pitiful state in which he found the donkey, driven by the boy in High- street, on the morning named. The boy admitted having driven the donkey for a month with the bad wounds on his back and side, but said he was ordered to do so by his master, who knew the condition the animal was in. The ownerof the donkey, Richard Harris, of Fern-street, appeared: now in answer to a summons, and denied any knowledge of the donkey's condition. The bojr entered the box and swore to having called his master's attention to the animal on three occa- sions. The master had ordered embrocation, which he had applied.—The Stipendiary, in in- Harris and,5s.on the boy, said he had never seen an animal'inisacb*a-dis- gracefully unfit condition for work. A SWANSEA PASTOR'S FABEWELL.—The Rsv J. W. Nicholson, who is about to-leave the English" ministry to take charge of a Welsh chorea at Port Madoc, bade farewell to the congregation at St. Paul's Church, Swansea, on Sunday. Mr W. Howell, the senior deacon, speaking.frbm the. pulpit rail, expressed on behalf of the congre- gation heartiest wishes for the success of the future work of Mr Nicholson, who, he was glad' to be able.to state, did not leave because of any dispute or disturbance or even difference of opinion. The congregation afterwards,gang with much feeling "God be with you till we meet again. £ E5 INQUEST.—Mr Edward-Strick held an. inquest^ at-the Vale of Neath Inn, Port Termantj-on Mon-? day afternoon, into the circumstances attending-, tha death of Augustinna Sarah Roberts, aged ten. On Saturday afternoon the little girl and her 'sister stood by the crossing to the Crown Spelter Works when a. train of trucks was due. They wsre warned by the signalling lad not to cross, but disregarded the caution, and before the boy could prevent her the little girl attempted to run over the rails. Just then the trams came, .deceased was struck down, and received such fearful injuries that she died within half an hour. A verdict of Accidental death" was returned. NEWPORT. THE DISPUTE.—Mr Haimes, of Abergavenny, and Councillor Richards, of New- port, representing respectively the master tailors and the journeymen, sat at the Westgate Hotel, on Wednesday, as arbitrators in the dispute with regard to the revised log used in the trade, and, having heard witnesses, the arbitrators are understood to have suggested an arrangement satisfactory^ both sides. ANIKBUFTJON OF THIEVES.—Newport County Borough has within the past few days been the arena in which a number of travelling thieves have disported themselves. Fortunately they are not getting off scot free. On Saturday a pick- pocket hooked a lady's purse from her pocket, but the owner, turning quickly around, grasped the hand of the fellow. Then he threw the purse amongst the crowd, and attempted to put on a show of innocence. He is thinking over his failure in the police cell. PONTYPRIDD. WBSLEYAN CONVENTION.—On Monday the Rev Dr. Stephenson, president of the Wesleyan Con- ference, visited Pontypridd, and delivered a stir- ring address on Christian work at a convention held in the afternoon at the English Wesleyan Chapel. Mr W. K. Daviss presided, and the speakers included the SeHSr.Wasley Lawton, — Corin, and Lowrie, of Cardiff.—In the evening the President delivered a powerful sermon before a large congregation at the English Congrega- tional Church. THE ALBION COLLIERS AND THE DUEHAM STRIKE.—The workmen of the Albion Colliery have forwarded through Mr W. Evans, the sub- agent of the Rhondda district, a sum of £30 to the fund for the relief of the miners now on strike in Durham. THE RHONDDA LABOUR AND LIBERAL ASSO- CIATION.—At a meeting of the Executive Com- inittee of the Rhondda Labour and Liberal Asso- ciation held last week it was decided to hold the annual meeting for the election of officers, &c., at Pentre Ystrad on the 20fch of June, and to arrange for the holding of a public demonstration in the evening at Treherbert, when it is expected that Mr Tom Ellis, M.P., Mr Lloyd George, M.P., and Mr W. Abraham, M.P. (Mabon), will attend. A hope was expressed that all districts and donors subscribing to the Parliamentary Fund would send in their subscriptions to the secretary (Mr W. Evans, Treorky) m the course of this month, ADULTERATED WHISKEY.— At the Pontypridd pclice-eourt on Wednesday—before Mr L. Gordon Lenox, Mr W. Thomas. Sir T. P. Jenkins, Dr Jones, and Dr H. N. Davies — Supt. Jonse charged Rice Morgan, of the Windsor Arms, Ynysybwl, with selling whiskey which upon analysis was found to be 27 per cent. under proof. Mr James Phillips defended, and pointed out that the whiskey was only 2 per cent. below standard, and that n; notice was exhibited in the hotel to the effect that the whiskey sold there was diluted.—Supt. Jones, however, said that he bad looked around for such a notice at the time he purchased the sample and failed to find it.—A fine of £1 was inflicted, and defendant was also ordered to pay the costs, which amounted to d31 15s 8d. ABERCARN. DEATH OF MR WILLIAM LEWIS, NAZARETH.— We regret to announce the death of Mr William Lewis, Nazareth, Abercarn, which occurred at his residence, on Monday morning, after a brief illness. Mr Lewis was well known throughout Monmouthshire, and was the oldest deacon of the Calvmistic Methodists in the county, having held that position for over half a century. The deceased was in his 80th year. MONMOUTH. PRESENTATION.—The sergeants of: tho per- manent staff of the R.M.E.M. have presented Quartermaster-Sergeant G. Whalley with a purse or money as a mark of their respect on his dis- charge to pension. Mr Whalley leaves for Manitoba on the 28th inst., where he intends to settle. The presentation was made by Regi- mental Sergeant-Major R. S. Wood. BRYNCETHIN. INQUEST.—On Monday afternoen, Mr E. B. Reece, coroner, held an inquiry at Bryncethin touching the death of David Lewia, 48, mason, Bryncethin. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased was eating his supper on Saturday, when a piece of meat stuck in his throat. Deceased lived for two hours in great pain, but as the nearest doctor resided two miles off Dr Jones arrived too late to be of assistance.—A verdict of Accidental death was returned. MOUNTAIN ASH. BOARD OF HEALTH.—The fortnightly meeting of the Mountain Ash Board of Health was held on Monday, at the Board-room. There were present, Alderman Gwillym Jones (chairman),Mr W. Little, Mr Morgan Morgan, Mr W. Bell, Mr Thomas Jones, Mr James Davies, Mr J. M. Greenbow, Mr S. Evans, Mr J. W. Jones. Mr W. P. Bowden, Mr Isaac George, Mr W. James, Mr Thomas Edmonds, Mr H. Eynon. There 76 applications for theappointmentof collec- tor, in succession to Mr L. M. Edwards, at asalary of £225. The applicants were finally reduced to two—Mr David Edwards (4 votes), and Mr D. T. Evans, Mountain Ash (10 votes). The last- named gentleman was declared appointed.—Mr Morgan Morgan proposed that the Board do not assist the opposition proposed to be given to the Birmingham Water Bill. This was agreed to. —Nine fresh cases of scarlet fever were reported by the medical officer. BURRY PORT. LIBERAL MEETING.—On Monday ev'ening Dr Enoch Davies, Llandyssil, Rev Wm Jones, Trewyddel, and Rev John Evans, Penygroes, Pembrokeshire, addressed a well attended meeting at Tabernacle Baptist Chapel, dwelling principally on the tithe question, emphasising with much fervour the cniel manuer in which the law of distraint was carried out, and the suffering the defaulters were subject to in consequence. A resolution in favour of the Disestablishment and Disendowment of the Church and in support of the Tithe agitation, proposed by Mr Edward Evans, and seconded by Rev James Rees, was enthusiastically carried. The Revs John Rogers. W. E. Watkins, and Dd. Evans also spoke. Mr D. T. Thomas, manager, Copper Works, pre- sided. FERNDALE. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday S. T. Harris, a collier, lodging at 7, Rhondda-street, Ferndale, wat killed by a fall of coal at No. 2 pit, Ferndale. YSTALYFERA. OBITUARY.—We have to announce the death of Mr David Davies, Ystalyfera Arms, Ystaly- fera, on Sunday morning, after an illness of several months' duration. The deceased, who was 41 years of age, had always prominently associated himself with the place. He was noted for the ardency of his political views, and at the last election had done much to contribute towards Mr Randell's return. He was also an adept Q'13k6ter and lawn tennis player, and had cao- tained each of the local clubs during several terms. He leaves a widow and two children, for whom much sympathy is expressed in their bereavement. The funeral will take place on Thursday, at 3 o'clock, at Holy Trinity Church, Ystalyfera. YNYSHIR. PRESENTATION.—A insist pleasant and repre- sentative meeting was held on Friday evening at the Independent Chapel, Y nyshir. The occa- sion was a presentation to Mr J. W. John, the Schools, on the occasion of his marriage. Mr John was presented with a gold watch, with gold chain and pendant, while Mrs John was presented with a beautifully designed silver fpersrne. Councillor Idris Williams made the presentation, and speeches wore delivered by Mr John Griffiths, Porth, Alderman H. N. Davies, and the RevD. Thomas, Cymmer. MrJ. J. Thomas, M.E., presided. BLAINA. DEATU OF MR EDWARD WALSH.—We deeply regret to chronicle the death of Mr Edward Walsh, of Gordon-cottagc-, Blaina, secretary to Messrs John Lancaster and Co., colliery pro- prietors, of this pla.c. which occurred at bis resi- dence at 12 o'clock on Saturdaynight, after a brief illness of a week's duration, from inflammation of the lungs. Mr Walsh was highly esteemed in his office connections, and was always foremost in promoting and taking active part in any athletic mevements. He was also secretary to the Blaina Cottage Building Company. Mr Walsh came to Blaina from Swansea. MOUNTAIN ASH. LABOUR PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE. — The annual meeting of the Labour Parliamentary Committee was held on Tuesday evening, at the Navigation Hotel, Mr D. H. W illiams presiding. Mr Isaac George was elected chairman of the committee for the ensuing year, Mr J. W. Jones treasurer, and Mr Evan Jones was re-elected secretary. It was decided to canvass the place for subscriptions towards the fund, and the town was divided into districts, and canvassers ap- pointed for each district. CARDIGAN. BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—The fortnightly meet- ing of this Board was held on Wednesday, at the Workhouse, Mr Benjamin Rees (vice-chair- man) presiding.—Several suggestions were made by way of improving the annual abstract of .accounts.—Mr Thomas Hughes (the Aberporth guardian) said that he had noticed that some of the medical officers were in the habit of ordering much more spirituous liquors for the pauper patients than the others. He could not get any reason for the consumption, and did not think tliere was aay. Consequently he gave notice of motion that he would call attention to the matter, ;and move a resolution to the effect that— •"Whereas the medical officers were to provide medicin-to the paupers, in cases where spirituous liquors were prescribed the medical officers should pay-forit as medicine." EBBW VALE. FATAL ACCIDENT.—At daybreak on Wednesday morning, the body of an elderly man, name un- known, was found in the vicinity of the Ebbw Vale coke ovens. It is conjectured that the old | man was run over by a passing engine or waggons. So far he has not been identified. ABERGAVENNY. A NOVEL CHARGE.—At tha Abergavenny police-court on Wednesday—before Colonel N. Wheeler (in the chair) and Major Carnegy— Thomas Price, aged 19, was charged with unlaw- -fully taking the name of a constable, so as to obtain admission to the Town-hall, Abergavenny, on the 10th of May.—Jas. James, the hall-keeper, said that on the night in question the hall was engaged by a theatrical company; two policemen in.uniform passed the pay table to go into the hall, and defendant followed them closely. The manager called out," Pay here,please." Defendant replied: All right; police." The manager said thatr policemen in plain clothes were not admitted free, and defendant went away.—Two constables corroborated the evidence of the hall-keeper.— Mr Luther Davies, for the defendant, said the charge was a novel one, made under a very old Act of Parliament that neither the Act nor jthe section under which 'the charge was brought could be found in Stone's Justices Manual.—The Bench said it was 2 and 3 Vie., chap. 93, Any person taking the name or character of a constable so as to obtain admission. &c."—Mr Davis asked permission to put bis client in the witness-box.—Supt. Freeman ob- jected, but the objection was over-ruled.—De- fendant then said that he saw the two constables in the street. One of them said, "Are you coming up along with us ? He asked Where ? "To the Town-ball," was the reply; and so he went up with them. When the manager said Pay here, please," he (defendant) replied, All right, I am with the policeman," not" I am a policeman."—Mr Davis called the attention of the bench to the great difference between the words I am a policeman and I am with the policemen," and urged th*t nobody had been defrauded that when the manager told defen- dant he could not be admitted free he went away. —The Bench said there were three witnesses to one as to what words were used, and said it was clear that defendant had tried to gain free admis- sion to the entèrtaiinnntby false pretences, and had rendered himself liable to a penalty of £10, but this being the first offence defendant would be fined 10s and çOSts.
BAZAAR AT CARDIFF.
BAZAAR AT CARDIFF. The Mayor on Betting. A bazaar in aid of the fund for erecting in connection with St. Stephen's Church, Cardiff Docks, a permanent building in place of the existing corrugated iron structure was opened in the Town HaU, Cardiff, on Wednesday afternoon by his Worship the Mayor (Alderman T. Rees). The Assembly-room was very prettily decorated, and the stalls, which were well supplied with goods, looked exceedingly bright and attractive. They were under the general supervision of the following friends Fancy stall—Miss Crowe, Miss Flossie Jenkins, and Miss Cuther; art works stall—Mrs Hughes, Miss Taylor, Miss A. M. Woosey, and Mr W. E. P. Hughes; flower stall —Mrs Shackell, the Misses Shackell, the Misses Milner, and Miss Bielski parish stall— Mrs Bird, Mrs Russell, Mrs Treasure, Miss Pritchard and Miss Wellstead; general needlework stall—Mrs Davies, Mrs Polglaise, and Mrs Watkins; refreshment stall—Mrs Clode and the Misses Clode. Mrs Barry, of the Imperial Hotel, St. Mary-street, kindly gave the refresh- ment stall. At the opening ceremony, there were present, besides the Mayor, Mrs Rees, the Rev A. G. Russell, St. Stephen's Church; the Rev C. J. Thompson and Mrs Thompson, Councillor J. H. Cory, Mr F. C. Lloyd, deputy-town clerk Mr Jonas Watson, Dr. Treasure, and Mr C. C. Perkins.—The Rev A. G. Russell stated that there would be required for the commencement of the work of building £1,200, towards which they had now in hand JB500, of which £300 had been obtained through grants. To complete the whole building, another £2,5(1) would be needed.—In opening the bazaar, the Mayor stated that some eight or 10 years ago he had a great objection to bazaars in connection with the erection of churches and chapels, as he found that games of chance went on at these places. They knew that a spirit of gambling had some- how or other taken possession of the young men, and, he was afraid, of many of the young ladies of the community. To-day, when he went into a newsvendor's shop, there was a constant rush of men and boys asking for the Sporting Times, Sporting Life, and papers of that kind. It seemed as If nothing-else was in demand in the way of papers. Boys (almost children), lads, young men, and older men were all intent on the sporting papers. The clergymen of the country and the ministers of our churches were con- tinually declaiming against this great evil, but they would be inconsistent if they admitted into their bazaars that which was based upon a similar principle. They must not permit the world to say that the Church was doing in a smaller way the very thing the Church was deprecating. He was delighted that a reform had taken place in connection with bazaars for the purpose of supporting religious objects. He was also delighted to see the num- ber of churches and chapels being reared all round, for if each one became a centre for spreading the light of true religion, their influ- ence must be beneficial. His Worship concluded by declaring the bazaar open.—Councillor Cory, in proposing a vote of thanks to the Mayor, promised an immediate donation of £25 to the building fund, and & like amount at a future date. —The Rev C. J. Thompson, in seconding the resolution, said he was quite at one with the Mayor in his Worship's remarks respecting the lotteries and raffling that often took place at bazaars.—The Mayor having briefly responded, business was commenced. In the evening a con- cert was given before a large audience by Mrs Clara Novello Davies, and the Cardiff Histrionic Club gave two performances, one entitled Chiselling, and the other A Cup of Tea.
STREET FATALITY AT NEWPORT
STREET FATALITY AT NEWPORT On Wednesday afternoon, William Brown, market gardener, Caerleon, was returning from Newport with his horse and cart. When near Junction-road, near Caerleon-road, Margaret Haggerty, an elderly woman, who resided in Canal-parade, attempted to cross in front of the vehicle, was knocked down, the wheel of the cart passing over her body. Mrs Haggerty was removed to the Newport Infirmary, where she expired shortly after being admitted..The driver of the cart was arrested, and charged with being drunk in charge of a horse and cart.
STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE FROM…
STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE FROM EBBW VALE. Some anxiety has been caused at Ebbw Vale during the last few weeks by the disappearanceof a boy, aged 13 or 14, named Bertie Morgan, son of Mr Thomas Morgan, mining surveyor, Church House. The boy had been in the habit of going to some of his relations for a few days. Inquiries have been made, but no trace can be found of the lad. He left home on the 27th ultimo, and paid a casual visit to the bouse of his uncle, Tymawr Farm, near Pontypool. Since then he has not ùoon heard of. When he left home he wore brown cord trousers, black jacket and vest, and blue serge cap. The boy is of dark complexion, and bears a scar on bis left cheek.