The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-07-31 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

XIV. no way, signified their intention of any such in a clever little pamphlet written by Dr. Robert There were at this time three-and-twenty mines hostile motives, and the murderous attack upon Gaffes, (In titute of Bankers) and publiahed at work, in the kingdom of Goloonds, employ- their father was committed without the slightest by the Cobden Club. ing 60,00 f, miners of both% sexes and all ages, warning of any kind. The mother and the reed and producing such stones as that one of 900 of the family, seeing what had taken 'oleos, carats, presented in 1665 by Mirimgala to immediately ran to theassistance of their father, Aurengzeb. The second district is that ooze- who, by this time, lay upon the ground bleedprised between the sacred river Godavari mad the ing, and in an unconscious state, Restoratives Mahanadi, which &Ile into the Gulf of Bengal were at once applied, and the wounded man close to Puri, where is the meet holy temple of taken to Dr. Bevan's surgery, at the Mumbles. Djagannath. Here, too, came Tavernier in On arrival there, it was found that the unfor-1665, and here he describes how, in January and tunate man had received several injuries to the February, when the water is low, the whole Ault, which were of • serious nature, so severe population takes to the river and works upwards were some of them that it was found necessary towards the mountains of its rise. They masee to sew them up, an operation which was skillthe sand at the bottom and the pebbles, and fully performed by Dr. Boren. Meanwhile, there only they stay to search more closely where information had been given at the Mumbles lie the qiuundentonos' that tell them not far off Police Station, wheremcn Sergeant Howells is the flesh of the diamond. Audio other river and P.C. Phillips (111) immediate' mines, in March, when the fields call for no tillers proceeded to the scene of the fracas. of the soil, the people take to rafts, and ecraping However, upon arriving there, it was the sand out from net ween the rocks, wash it found that the two would-be murderers had carefully in the pools. They say that this taken safety in flight, leaving no trace as to their Mahanadi is the Amas river of the ancients, whereabouts. The deposition of the father was where, it is written, 'they find diamonds in taken, as was also that of the other members of quantities.' The third district is Btmdelcund, the family who witnessed the affray. No trace of the richest and sweet of all, where is situate the the culprits has yet been dimovered. The two renowned Pannah, the Panama of Ptolemy. Let oftioers have been most assiduous in their efforts us look in on them at work here, one shadeless to tram them, but, unfortunately without morning, twenty minutes' walk across the fields success. No definite object has been assigned to a email fiat surface covered with heaps of for the murderous attack made upon pebbles, between which cluster huge clumps of the father, but it is generally supposed that he jasmine, whose thousand blossom. heavily scent refused to give up to them some drink, which he the air. At the foot of a knoll, gently sloping, is said to have had in his possention. We have lie basking a few tattered soldiers; on the other been unable, up to the present, to asicertain the side is a large well, on the lip of whioh creak' a namee of the parties, alt enquiries on that point wheel turned by four bollocks. This was once the proving futile. The injured man, who has no most important diamond-field in the world, and desire to prosecute his sons, is, we are glad to be nowtheonlysuggestionof animation andenterprise able to report, [ regressing as favourably as can lies in the creaking of the wheel and the half-a- be expected under the