The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1881-06-17 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO. It is stated that the reserved price was not more than £9,000. About four o'clock on Saturday morning, a fishing boat returning to Whitehills harbour, near Bann, suddenly upset, and the crew of four men were drowned. Two were named Lovie, and the others James Adamson and James Wilson. All leave widows, and two of them large families. At Mold, a public funeral has been accorded the remains of the Rev. Thomas Williams, M.A., vicar of Warthop, Mold, and one of the oldest clergymen in the diocese of St. Asaph. A few years ago the deceased restored the parish church solely at his own expense, costing upwards of £2,000.  At a meeting of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, held last week, Professor John Marshall, F.R.S., was elected the representative of that college in the tdeneral Council oi Medical Education and Registration' in the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Sir James Parra. The Army and Nary italic hears that "considerable difficulty is likely to be experienced in filling up the post of Inspector-Oeneral of Attillery on July 1, owing to the reduced number of Artillery Major-Generals that wilt be on the list, and the paucity of officer,' that are fitted for the peculiar and important duties of that post." An account is published at New York of an interview with Mr. O'Donovan Rossa, who denied all knowledge of M•Kevitt and Barton Roberts, the two men arrested in connection with the attempt, to blow up the Liverpool Town Dail, lie also denied that the act was instigated by the Fenian Brotherhood, although admitting that it grew out of the spirit animating the Fenian organisation.  A few cveningt ago, about 130 women, young and i old, employed in variou3 London theatres n chorus singing; belle. dancing, and as dressers, assembled at a tea meeting in Lower Exeter Ilan, at the invi• tat ion of several Chriiitian ladies and gentlemen. These meetings are held periodically, being usually followed by a religious service. Many of the girls came from Drury Lane and the Alhambra.  At the Durham Police Court, on Saturday, John Daley, an Irish labourer, was charged with the murder of his wife, oil the 4th. Jane Gainford, living next door to privoner, said that on Saturday evening Mrs. Daley rushed into her house, followed by prisoner striking her. She way bleeding rely math, and prisoner said he would finish her. Mrs. Daley died on Friday night. The prisoner was remanded.  The fishing during last week in the Shetland islands was unprecedented. Herrings for bait were 'very plentiful, Out of fifty-five boata the avenage has been fire tons per boat, or an aggregate; of '275 toes for the week. The boat Sceptre, of Peterhead, which two weeks ago had the snot., mous catch of ten tons, has this week again lauded upwards of nine tons, excluding a large quantity of skate, &c.  The two men, Smith and Fitzgerald, charged with stealing a large amount of jewellery at Cambridge, during May last, have been committed for trial at the Cambridge Borough Quarter Sessions. The whole of the stolen property was found in a mall black bag at the cloak room of the Great Northern Railway at Cambridge, wrapped in a skirt, which had on it names corresponding with some on the prisoners' hum.