The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-11-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. TO THE EDITOR.  Sir,—! was much amused at the report which the Cambrian Daily TelegrapA gave yesterday of the municipal elections. Your contemporary stated that the contest did not evoke nearly as much interest as in years past. The new paper Is evidently sore at the results. The fact is the number of voters who polled in each ward was much greater than in former years. Mr. T. P. Martin, in his address to the electors, who did not elect him, says he had the largest vote ever recorded, for an unelected candidate, in Swansea. Allow me to point cut that on the same day, sir. nether, the cheap Jack, polled nearly 200 votes more than Mr. T. P. Martin, and was not elected. What a little consoles some people f' Yes, indeed. Yours truly, AN Macros. Swansea, 4th November, 1885.  The German barque Atlantic, from Swansea for Copenhagen, is ashore at Scam. A servant named Dist James, died at Cardiff, on Tuesday, from the affects of poison self administered.  Cardiff complains that the Liberal leaden neglect her, hence the Contervative municipal gain. The Whitland Radicals have been going a trifle ten far. A person may show hie adherence to Liberal eause without inglazing windows.  Francis Adamson, 28, • -sailor,- has been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for criminally assaulting a young woman at Newport in August last.  A woman named Caroline Targett, living at Merthyr, whilst returning home by train from Swansea, on Tuesday, gave birth to a female I child just as the train was approaching turwain. At Monmouth Assizes, on Tuesday, John Church, 23, a labourer, and David Jones, 19, • puddler, were sentenced to penal servitude for ten years each for ravishing a woman at Cwmbran. - -  --By degrees every member of the Merthyr Local Board is warming to the subject of remedying sanitary defects in the houses cd the poor of Merthyr, Penydarren, Dowlais, fto. The Rev. Francis Aumistine Morgan, MA., was on Wednesday instituted to the vicarage of Chepstow by the Lord Bishop of Llandaff on the presentation of the Simeon Trustees. A collision between a London and NorthWestern Railway and a Taff Vale Railway train occurred at Caerj bi'lT on Wednesday evening. The result was 111.4 oa,l  On Wednesday Daniel Minshan, labourer; was committed for trial at the Thames Police Court charged with the wilful murder of his wife at Bow. The womanhad fourteen wounds on the head inflicted by a hammer.  In the Supreme Court of Judicature (Court of Appeal), on Wednesday—before Lords Justices Biggshay, Bowen, and Fry—in re the Neath Harbour Smelting and Rolling Works, Limited, which was a motion on behalf of Mr. W. Stevens, the petitioner, on a winling-up petition. The application had a three-fold object; First, that the petitioner might be at liberty, under the Bankers' Book Act, 1879, to inspect and take copies of entries in the books of the company, and to produce the extracts as evidence on the appeal from Mr. Justice Matl3ews's decision, dismissing the petition; se,ondly, that the appellant might be at liberty to adduce further evidence upon the appeal; and thirdly, that the appeal might be put into the interlocutory list, or otherwise advanced.—Their lordships ordered the motien to stand over for a week.