The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1887-12-16 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LORD WOLSELEY ON PHYSICAL TRAINING.  General Viscount Weiseley on Monday °tuning opened the new gymnasium halt and social room, I forming parr of the l'iretbitry Poly teohnie, London, of which the Rev. Freemen Walls is the founder. The institution is situated in Appohl Street, and since January, in spite ot the imp 'flitter° arrangements, 4,000 members herr.: been t•nrolled. Its main object is the promoted. of teohnictil education among the suns of anisette, and also to afford a refuge from the streets. The building, upon which already upwards of £B,OOO bae beeu spent, consist of the gymnasium, 86ft. by 4f tr. ; a large 'retie.' r.rom ; a capital swimming bath, i'jtt long by 254 wide; a gatnes' room, a librery, end class roving. The Rev. Freeman Wills, in an address, Flitted that all the expenses of the vett lit, stage had been mat, with the exception of £lOO, and tito council hoped shortly to proceed with the butltlieg of the technioal schools in an upper Corey. Lord Wolseley, having deolared the inatitution open, said it would confer great benefit on the young people of this ()vete owlet part of London. It was 0b,,,1tt Olt rwe •• It' 101 It a welfare of the young it tat 1. to U ii hair minds but to train Owl b li•t. 1 W• 11 81 11 Lho went' much for a 1.,,14, t., be ; to/tined mentally, and for the rt nary I tel fill ii will, art treasures and oh.; vet at ef la, ore, unless the manhood of the I,B'llloly ;all lo• jo,w,, the &demi. nation, 8111,1 t Ile 11111.01.1 111 11,Irellt1 'IIC it, 'ii against all invaders. rti hops ho took t (1(k ill110)1 of a soldier's now of I ha • hut he helievsd that the best way to improvta a me° was not only to educate tht ir mind, hut to look after their physical well-being and health. It atm a great blot in the Education Acts that they did not go a little further and lay down the pr nciple that, attached to every Board School, there should be a recreation ground anti the "mans for the people to practice gymnastics. lit close alliance with institutions of the hied, there was a subjeot to whirl he attached great importance. Believing, as he did, that nitie-tenthe of the crime and misery that existed in the country arose from intoxicating drink and /*nitric-houses, lie could not but feel what an enor 1111 l 1114 benefit would be conferred upon the Comm 'ty by the in. crease of these polytechnics, which would offer counter- attractions to working mon, and keep them away from the public - houses. (Cheers.) The Earl of Meath proptiac I 11, tion commending the undertaking t., i• tab' io support, and Sir J. Bennet arid t• Bev. Prebendary Whittington havieg spelt. ii, it was carried. A vote of thanks to Lord Widse'ey was submitted by the Rev. S. Buss, a emitted by the Rev. J. S. Ganunell, and an itispeution of the building followed. Dm int Ihe evening there WAS an aquatic entertainnit lit in the bathe; and an assault-of-arras in the gymnasium.  Mr. Minter, the Nolkeetone Coroner, held an inquest ou Monday, en the body of a woman named Davies's, a widow, who died after ten days' acute suffering, front bwallowing a whiting bone. The bone stuck in hr Oros t, end eatteod the passage to be stopped. A post-mortont examination showed that an abscess had forniod in the throat. A. verdiot of Accidental death waq returned.  An alarming and exicnsive outbreak of disease among sheep is report, dft om Itve. On two farms where there arc molly hundred sheep, the scab has attacked a large numboe, and it in 'eared that the disease may spread to the oilier flocks in the neighbourhood. lit ono CHAU !hero are 150 sheep affected. 'rho tinuol prec .utimtv have been taken. Dlr. Crompton 11 it•ton judge of the Bolton, Oldham, Bury, Ifeclidal% tint other County Courts, has intimated to a Bol'ou correspondent that he will not nutlce puldio his reply to the Chancellor of tho Duey re ttti 11111sticoessful agitation to SOCIII*O his removal front office.  Further outrsges by 061,ntlers on Pritish fishing boats in the North 6e,t are rep mted. from Lowestoft.  The Premier has appointed Canon Hole to the vacant Deanery of Rochester. Canon Dole is on of the chaplains to the Archbishop of Canterbury and.reetor_of Cauntom Netts_ _  The body of the inan who perpetrated the murder and it iuitl eat Sotitheen, on Saturday last, was on Monday afternoon identified as that of Lanoe-oorporal Saand,rp, of iho Hampshire Regiment, stationed at Winchester.  BonER ExpLosic -- ••• I'