The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-06-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

EARLY CLOSING IN SWANSEA. TO THE EDITOR.  Si,—Kindly allow me a short space it your valuable paper for a word or two on the above much ventilated question. I should like to know if the officers of the Ansociatiou who were elected last February are still exerting themselves in the matter. lam informed they are not, and I cannot but believe it, seeing that early and punctual closing is no longer the rule, but the exception; and I am also given to understand that their inaction is due to the want:ef funds, one house only basing responded to their appeal for contributions. Now, sir, the assistant' must be wonderfully shortsighted if they expect earlier closing :without devoting a small portion of their time and money to th's mush needed reform, for it is a well known fact that the majority of them take not tie Cightest interest in a movement that so vitally affects them. I would urge upon them the necerity of immediate and united action, seeing that the pleasant summer days are rapidly pealing away; and instead of enjoying the cool evenings out of doors, we are condemned to be almost broiled iu the close and gas-heated atmosphere of the shops for an unreasonable number of hours. Frr the late hours which we have to bear, we have mainly to thank those ladies who make it a habit of leaving their shopping till the last possible moment. Does one of those ladies know the hara she causes to the weary assistants ljoe, he know that the young lady 'wlio may happen to serve her has alma; Leen' nearly twelve hours on ber feet? Oh, no She does not know it She 114-Ver gave the subject a thought. If philanthropy and practical Christia,ity iN to be a power for good in our town, let the late shopping ladies cultivate a little more of those virtues, and apply them. Let them ho a pait of their creel, not on Sundays alone, but also on other days. I would, respectfully ask those ladies to think a little of the shop assistants, to display • little humanity and consideration towards them by making their put. chases at as early an hour as possible —I mu, etc., AN ASSIBTADir.  A telegram from Bahia. states that the TINT:PI 4:sripe have burned many houees in the ten Rory of the Car•trati tribe. Fighting ontinuee.  -A sister to the Mrs. Meakin, who, together with her two children were murdered by the husband in last October, drowned herself in the river at Newbury. General Todleben, tho hero of Sebastopol and Plecns, is suffering from glaucoma in both eyes. He left Kisaingen for Wurzburg on Tuesday, where Professor Michael will perform an operation.  - At Birmingham, on Monday, two men, a mason and a labourer were killed by a fall of itones which had been piled up in the yfird of the new Art Gallery in course of erection in New Edmund Street. - -  At Dudley on Monday, a boy named John Kilston, but known to his companions by the sobriquet of "Dick Turpin," was convicted of stealing a horse and sent to a reformatory for five years. Monday was the 68th anniversary of the battle of W iterloo. At the inspection of the Corps of Commissioners, an old pensioner of 98 years, who hurl been in the Peninsula, Quartire Bras and 'Waterloo, was presentsd to 11.R.H. the Duke of C .mbridge. Mr. Justice Chitty, on Monday, decided that the father of the Jewish girt named Rosa Rosenberg had forfeited the custody of his child through his own neglect. The girl therefore remains in the Roman Catholic Londe at Middlesbrough. A shocking accident has just occurred on the Midland Rehear at G.eat Bowden. A number OS children were at a level crolidng, s he.' they witched a train pam, and ran on to the line. An exrresa, is the opposite direction, dashed into th 3 group, killing one named Strong ta the spot, while five others almost mlrardulously escaped.