The Pontypridd Chronicle and Workman's News

The Spalding Board of Guardians has decided by the cn^tiujf vote of the chairman, against memorialising the Government against the pauper maintenance clauses of the Local GovernawtrtrBtu. Mr. E. L. Lewes, of the firm of Snowball, Smith, and Lewes, solicitors, Liverpool, has been appointed clerk to the Bootle borough magistrates in succes- sion to the late Mr. C. Cotton. Holders of Mauritius Government debenture. are informed by the Crown agents that theyeaa convert their bonds to bearer into four per cent, inscribed glock. New York papers comment at great length on- the engngement of the Duke of Marlborough to Mra. Hemersley, a wealthy widow, with an income of 200,000 (loin, a year. A colossal marble bust of Prince^ Bismarck, by Pouudorf, the finest ever produced, is now finished, and will remain for a short time on view at the National (iallery. It if announced that the interest on Exchequer bill*, dated June 11. 188(5, for the half-year ending Dec. 11, 1888, will be at the rate of 21 per cent. per ILlillitill. Sir Wilfred Lawson is presently going to America to study the operation of the Maine Liquor Law. Of course, the Compensation Clauses have the first claim on the baronet's attention. Mr. H. Newson Smith, chartered accountant, of Walbrook, E.C., has been appointed voluntary liquidator of the Licensed Victuallers' Mutual Trading Association, Limited. Admiral Henry Bays has been elected a director of tlio Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company, Limited, in the place of the late Admiral Sir Cooper Key. The other day, according to arrangements made by the War Office, 20 regiments of militia were assembled at their respective headquarters to com- mence their regular yearly course of training. The Ben Muir has returned to Hong Kong, hav- ing 33 Chinese on Board who were not permitted toland. The Chang-Sha has arrived off the harbour with 140 Chinamen. General Adjutant Count Loris MelikofF, who is at present residing in Nice, intends visiting Switzerland, and afterwards spending some time in St. Petersburg during the coming summer. The Lord Chamberlain will preside at the anni- versary festival dinner of the Cabdrivers' Benevo- lent Association, to be held in the Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Mitropole, on Thursday, Juno 21. At Brisbane complete returns of the general elections have now been received, and show that the Opposition have secured 45 seats against 27 won by Ministerialists. A Limerick telegram states that three tenants have been evicted on the Erasmus Smith School Estate. The other tenants have adopted the Plan of Catnpagne in consequence. The roof of the Theatre Royal, Berlin, which U undergoing structural alterations, fell in tho other morning burying a large number of workmen, twc of whom were killed on the spot. Many others were severely injured. The Lord Mayor has made a further remittance of X250 to the British Ambassador in Berlin for the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the floods in Germany. This makes a total remittance from London up to the present of £ 5,250. The little steam launch Louise, which recently left the Mersey for Benguela, has put into Kinaalt to await better weather. The little craft draws only 3ft. of water, and baa a freeboard of only 12in. The 3,000 Jewieh tailors who have been on strike in Leeds for some weeks for shorter hours and a recognition of the trade-union system havereturned to work, their efforts to obtain their demands bar- ing proved unsuccessful. The Chief-constable of Carnarvonshire, acting presumably iii- the.biterimto of the Government, has issued a circular to his men requesting them to acquaint htm at once with any finds of gold in their districts. Sir Everett Millais has written an article for a forthcoming number of the Magazine of Art. This will, it is stated, be almost, the first (if not the very first) time that this great master of the pencil has wielded the pett in public; The" Navaja Vremja" slates" Russia will not go to war in order to bring about the normal state of affairs' in Bulgaria; at the same timt9 she will not make the smallest concesaionofthe kind which Austria-Hungary desires." Admiral Carpenter reporta that the Channel squadron will cfuise around, the Irish coast during June, calliag at Belfast, Kingstown, and at Queenstowii, on the 23rd. Bantry Bay will after- wards be visited. At the Wandsworth Police Court, Rebecca Han- pock, an ironer, living jht Pimlico, has been charged with attempting to cortijtiit suicide by swallowing a quantity of laudanum.—Mr. Montagu WiUiams remanded the prisoner to see what best could be done for her. r G. J. Litttpwood, English champion pedestrian, who won the recent six days' go-as-you-please eon- test at Maddison-square, has arrived ab Queens- town from New York oh board the City of Chester. He will probably meet Scott, the Australian chnlD- pion, in England. At Llandudno Petty Sessions, before Dr. Nicol and other magistrates, William Coath, auctioneer, Llandudno, has been fined 10s. and costs for keep ing a dog without a licence.—Joseph Bailey, cab- man, has also been fined 10s. and costs for assault- ing Joseph Wright, an .ostler. The colossal bronze statue of Sir Wm. Wallace, "The Guardian of Scatjan^ which is to be un. veiled by the Marquis of Lorne at Aberdeen on June 21, has arrived there safely from London. The statue is seventeen feet high, and weighs four A telegram from Vienna says lb is confirmed hi military circles that the War Department con- templates increasing the strength of the cavalry regiments and artillery brigades, and that preparations are already proceeding with that ob- ject. As the result of the Board of Trade inquiry into the strhnding of the Atlantic liner Egyptian Monarch, the master. Captain Harrison, has been found wholly to blame, but cpnsulering his high character and seamanlikq qualities, the court de- clined to deal with his ccrtihcate.' Mr. Michael Davilb writing in the Frecmav't Journnl, praises the- National party in liadia, and suggests that by electing Jdi", JMdabhoi Kaoroji for the approaching vacancy in one of the Parlia- mentary divisions of Counaugiit Iceland's cause would win mtllions of friends. The Secretanr of State has ordeiqd that tl.t owners of the,Feetiniog Qwa-cry^ in whose subter ranean worl^ng five men lost their lives a few weeks ago by the breaking of a bridge. shall bt prosecuted. It is alleged that tlte bridge was not kept in proper repair. t i A despatch, from Muniohstates that a deshuc i tive fire has jitat occurred in the village of Illingen, near Neustadt. Several public buildings, includ ing the Post Office and the Municipal Hall, and about sixteen private (Vju*esr\y/Bre hl^n<xt to the ground. Several personf \\ere,injure>d in the afr tempt to fight the flajnes. William Chart (21), postman, has been charged with stealing out of post letters, 11 postal orders, 10 money orders, 30 bankers' cheques, 700 poet letters, 133 circulars, 43 post cards, and three savings-banlv books.—Prisoner, who was a first- class posting; in the South-Eastern district wat sentenced to !0 years' penal servitude. Emma Branson, domestic servant, haa been charged with attempting to drown herself in the Rushmere I'ond at Wimbledon Park.—A lady at- tended the court and expressed her readiness to receive the prisoner into her Home.—On the pri. soner promising to enter the Home she was allowed to be discharged. Twenty-one shipwrecks, 12 being British owned vessels, have U;en reported during the week. Six (fivo British 8 'Uers and a Norwegian brigantine) went down o I the British Isles. A New[iort steamer was reported with all hands. Collision cases numbered 24, 12 taking place off the British Isles. One British sailer sank by collision. The London police the other day made a blunder of an extraordinary character in arresting Dr. H. J. O'Brien, a well-known London practitioner, in the belief that be was a member of the Clun-na- Gael Society, named M'Inernay, for whom they are on the outlook. Dr. O'Brien was afterwards offered £ 5 as compensation. A widow with four children, named Elizabetli Sarah Davies, has been charged at the Dalston (London) Police Court, with stealing forty pairs of boot upperg, which ahehed undertaken to sew ab the rate of sevenpence a dozen. Tite megiatratee ordered her Do bf discharged ab the riding of the MMt. .J' The Worshipful Company et Grocers have made* a grant of f.50 to the Mission to Deep Sea Fisher. men. L It ie announced from Wiesbaden that Queen i Nathalie of Servia has taken a villa there for year. A telegram from Rome says The next consis tory will be held on June 5 next, but no nomina tions of Cardinals will then be announced. It is stated that the forgers of the 500-frane- notes have also been successful in circulating: spurious 1,000-franc and 100-franc notes. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Mr.. Joseph Markham, a Neath town councillor, tm ft* charge of embezzlement. x The post-office a>id several houses, tbe property of Lord Chichester, at Bishopstone, near East- bourne have been destroyed by fire. A dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. has been declared by the Australian Wine Im- porters, Limited. The Aboyne estates of the Marquis of Huntlyr which have been in the market so long, have beea purchased by Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, M.P. Six young men have been arrested at Gort,. County Galway, in connection with the alleged Moonlight outrage on a man named Hagarty. A London news agency has been informed OB- reliable authority that the Fisheries Treaty will nbhTf be signed by the United States Government. .J*. An innkeeper nam Daniel Dixon was preparing a blast at a quarry Langdale. near Ambleside. when the cartridge prematurely exploded, inflicting fatal injuries. The Right Hon. Viscount Bury, K.C.M.G., will preside at the next house dinner of the St. George's Club on June 5, when a distinguished gathering is ex pected. The stabbing of Vntnen has again been frequent in Northampton recently, and the police have a mllll in custody believed to be the perpetrator of the outrages. Mr. Rnskin, who has greatly improved in health, is now dtaying again at Sandgate. He is engaged during the greater part of the day upon literary: work. At Killarney, a blacksmith, named Jeremiah- Healy, has been, after two days' investigation, senb f.¡ trial to the Assizes, for setting fire to the Killar- ney Protestant Church. It is stated that Mr. John Dillon, M.P., has re- oeived a report, on authority, that disciplinary directions are about to be issued tothelriah priests re") rioting their liberty in political matters. A Mitchelstown telegram states that, notwith- standing the advice of the leading Nationalists, the Const-able Leahy compensation tax is being paid- without resistance. ,j At St. Petersburg, an Imperial Order has been .ssiieil reducing the strength of the troops stationed ■ II the Transcaspian provinces by 13 officers and 1,088 men. A telegram from St. Petersburg states that Count Tolstoi, Minister of the Interior, will pas* bha whole summer at his estate in the Government of Rjasan. A Paris correspondent telegraphs that an explo- sion took place at a well.known cartridge factorjr it Pantin, causing the death, so far as is at present, known, of 12 persons, and injuring 30 others. A cablegram baa been received by the Old Lout Mining Company, Limited, from their solicitors ia New York, stating that the transfer of the proporbr to the company has been effected. A coroner's jury has returned a verdict of Sui- cide while temporarily insane," in the case of a,, military prisoner named Ralph Coxon, aged nine- teen, who had hanged himself in Cheater Castle. In the annual report of the Malta and Mediter- ranean Gas Company, Limited, the directors pro- pose a dividend of <> |>er cent., 2 per cent, of which has already been paid on account, leaving a sum of .E4M to be carried forward. A railway porter named Herbert Town has hem, killod at Weaste Station, Manchester, by an excur- tion train. The deceased, who was only 18 ,eara- of age. was knocked down by a buffer whito- crossing the line, and death was instantaneous. Notices, threatening all persons who have deal- l ings with a man named Alender with t hesamedeatb asCnrey tho informer, liavebeenpostetj atKildysart* Similar notices regarding Cronin, an alleged police spy, were also posted. < A telegram from Rome states that Queer*, Margherita has visited the villages of Albano» Genano, and Frascati, and some of the neighbouring chateaux, and was everywhere received with heartjr cheers. '1 Lord Lansdowne has left Ottawa on his return to England. An imposing farewell demons tuition was made on the part of the inhabitants, and a. number of farewell addresses were presented to hie • lordship. The Hants Independent hints that the Attorney*- General, Sir Richard Webster, has been offered a. high position, which, if accepted, will necessitate .p his retirement from the representation of Llio Isle^ ■ > of Wight. A telegram from Athens states that Mr. Hng- gard, British Charg6 d'ASairK, is negotiatinir treaty with the Greek Government respect ing the establishment of a reciprocal status for joint stock companies. The Committee of the Senate on the Panama- Lottery Loan Bill has adopted, without modifica- tion, the measure voted by the Chamber authoris- ing the issue of the loan, and elected M. Boreziittit. r as its reporter. A telegram from Vienna says :— The Lower House of the Reichsrath has concluded the debate* upon the Budget in committee, and subsequently passed the second and third readings of the Budgefc Bill. Colonel Graham, commanding the British forcer in Sikkim, halt been authorised by the Indian Government to pursue the Thibetans, who attacked his position at Guatong across the frontier inU^v; Thibet. Twelve members of the Salvation Army includ- ing one female, have been sent to prison at Seven- oaks for seven days, in default of half-a-crown fine* for obstructing the High-streeb by holding an open- air meeting. Jesse Wright, labourer (28). employed at Calder Vale Boiler Works, has been crushed to deaths under a large boiler, which suddenly rebounded whilst been rollell over on to the stocps. Wrightr leaves a widow and three children. The directors or the Royal'Swedish Railway- Company, in their report for the year 1887, propose a dividend of 4s. 9d. per share. oi? the preference capital, leaving a balance of X524 he,parried for- ward. A soldier who was on his way from Plymoti th- to Liverpool has been found unconscious in an entry in. Birmingham. It appears that he had accora- Sallied two Women to a house, where he bad beetv • rugged and robbed of i.65, and then thrown out. Lord Brassey, in a letter to the Timet, urges the necessity of providing for the protection of com- merce, and dwells upon the disproportion between the strength of the British Navy and the amount of ckurimerco that has to be protected. It is reported tfcat the Occidental and Oriental Company intend to present a claim to the Chinese Government for the loss of the San Pablo, which stranded in the Straits of Formossa on April 24 last, and was attacked and burned by Chinese pirates. Canon Major Lester, speaking at the opening of a bazaar in Major-street Industrial Schools, it) aid of the funds of St. Aidan's, Kirkdale, said it all nnfair thing for rich neighboring jfctHshee -i lauld bazaars, since funds could bef obtained by;11 appeals to tl»e rich residents. V lu the Liverpool Court of Passage^Mrs. Costello, wife of a labourer residing off Great Howard-street,^ has been awarded f80 damages for injuries siis-' I tuined through falling into a ciitthigMeft witht^ut proper protection by the servants oFthe Cdtpcrta- t.ioll.. All the pretty stories about the Queen's fo ridneaS T for jewels are declared to be pure fiction. Majesty has no predilection for pearlis, !K<i never buys any jewellery Whatever, unless ?h« wants some particular article which is to w q birtliday or wedding prefent.< A man named Coward haa attempted to commit suicide at Bristol by cutting his threat in the pre- a scnce of his wife and a friend with wbbm' he AVas 1 carousing. Only two mohfehe ago Mre: C,oWa'm 11' cut her throat in her husband's presence, but haf quite recovered from her self inflicted injurfesi 01 Coward is in a precarious condition. > vj' i A very mysterious occurrenoe has happeneid at-J Charlottenburg, one of the park-keepera' having' been shot. through the arm by some person unknown. It was thought at first that one of the sentinels might have fired on suspicion, but this proves not to oe the case, and tbe incident ia veiled in mys- tery. f