The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1890-07-11 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PORTHCAWL SAYINGS AND DOINGS.  [BY RUMINATOR].  As the time goes flying by, the prospect of our having something like summer weather appears to me to grow beautifully lass. Day after day it is the &VD% cold, cheerless, and wet. It is really getting serious, for apart from personal convenience or individual likes or dislikes, there is a harvest to be considered. Hay and other crops are in a most backward state, and their condition along with the state of the weather affords great anxiety not only to the agriculturalist but to the general public as well,  I felt heartily sorry for the large number of pleasuie seekers who came into the place on Monday last ; and especially was I grieved for the women and little children, all of whom, to use an old saying, presented the appearance of " drowned nits."  I am sorry also for the sports committee, who wore most unfortunate, on account of the Weather. I may be told that they wore mostly young men all of whom could afford to lose a few shillings On their shares. Perhaps so; but when a body of men, young or old, unite together, and work bard to bring off an affair that is of benefit to the place, they, in my opinion, deserve to win and not lose.  For, apart from the individual labour expended upon the getting up of sports, the committee have to put their hands into their pockets; and it hits hard when the expenditure is not made up, even as a matter of principle. I, for one, wish the committee better luck next time.  1 liko the idea of the flower service that wa6 held in Newton Church, on Sunday afternoon. No doubt particulars of the same will be furnished by the news correspondent, and therefore I need not refer to it at any length in this column. will only say that the originator of the movement, the Rev. Mr (;wytme, is to be commended for bis efforts on behalf of the inmates of the Swansea Hospital.  l'orthcawl has been turned for the nonce inW a sort; of garrison town. Red co.sta.exe to bc seen everywhere. It is to bi hoped that the Volunteers will be favoured with fine weather, which will go far to make their sojourn on the Locks common an enjoyable one.  At Cloutuel, on attirclay, the grand jury kle iounty Tippersry awarded to Acting. sergeant McCarthy, ot the Royal Irish Constabulary, £lOO for injuries tele ved rum a mob at Cashel; £2OO W couthable for injutiee at Cosben; and ,6150 te another ()mishit:le tot being struck on the head with a stone while on duty at Clotzuwl. At Northamptou Assizes, on Saturday, Henri Morton, elites Sce 9r ipo, was beaten to soot; yours' penal eervitude lot r murderous s taok a hemmer ou a warder at Nortlumpton gaol. ie., Februzuy last, when the priscuer was Atte/al/A to esoape. benteuce mos ow:currently with ons,o five years, which he laud received for fraud anti; forgery. Late the other night a schooner named the Ana Wiguall sank in the Mersey. She was proomalui up the liver towel ds Garatun book with a cargo Ot granite from Anualoug, when the wind antidotal' hall away, mud she war carded by the tide *Wel the lows of a tug lying at anchor. The mobeoltoe sustairied damage which caused her Luz auk in • few tniuutes. lua crew were eared by,the tug. t On bat urday, Mr. Kingell, the postmaster 0, •Devonjent, whilst tiding on the driver • platform 0' a tram, was Swung off, end fell underneath the . the wheel., w bleb passed over the len arm and leg, whing them up so badly that amkutatiou with was here& avy . Mr. h.iu life tsidaapaired lie only recently came from Weymouth, and gr.' tyliipathy is felt for him. I'rinoe Jerome Napoleon, travelling inoognit°,l/1 Comte de Mouuldieri, Las been one of Its eur tiuguisbed foreigners of the Loudon mason for hie last throe weeks. During his stay in the motroli°lll,_ the l'rince, vrfio took up hie reeidenee at the Bear ley !Rasa, is said to fo.ve followed with doss otteeoi tutu recent rolizieel etunts and the derelepasat. oar Detre ricilitare.