The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-05-28 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ALLEGED MURDER BY A FATHER.—At Ottery, Devonshire, William Palfrey, agricultural labourer, has been committed for trial for the wilful murder of his son, Edward Palfrey. Last week, the deceased, six years of age, was found by a farmer asleep in a bullock crib in his courtyard. His mother presently came and led him away. The same evening the prisoner took the lad home on bis shoulder, and threw hint along, the floor, "not very hard, but he did not stoop to do it." The little fellow began to groan, and lay groaning about a quarter of an hour. When the father threw him down he kicked him, saying, "The child is drank, get pp." Re again said, on being remonstrated with, that he had dipped the child in the brook. During the night the lad died.  THE BANKRUPTCY BlLL.—This bill has been reprinted, to show the amendments made in it. As it stood originally it omitted from its list of a'.;ta of bankruptcy those Which are popularly designated by the phrase "keeping out of the way." It is now proposed to declare it an act of bankruptcy if a debtor absconds, or with intent to defeat or delay his creditors goes abroad. The bill makes a distinction between traders and other persons, certain things being acts of bankruptcy only in the case of a trader; and the definition of a trader is now altered by expressly including certain occupations which might not come within the general words employed, such as the business of apothecaries, auctioneers, bankers, brokers, carriers, innkeepers, market gardeners, printers, scrivenere, victuallers, &a. Si HIKES IN HOLLAND AND Ilgtoluar.—Strikeg are beginning to be prevalent in Holland as well as Belgium. One is reported at Amsterdam. The ship carpenters decline to continue work unless the masters would increase their wages from 1.80 fl. to 211. a day, the working hours to be henceforth from six in the morning till six in the evening. The masters, however, refused these propmals, and the workmen have left the yards. No disorders have taken place. Eight bundr.d men are now out of employment. The turfcutters at Beets (Friesland) have also struck for higher wages. Here serious disorders have taken place, and some lives have been lost. The Dutch workmen want to expel the Belgians, who work for lower wages. The Dutch printers are organising a league to obtain higher pay. A DUST Sronsf.—On the 3rd of March, Melbourne, sod in fact the whole of Victoria, was visited by one of the most severe dust storms which has ever been experienced in the colony. Old colonists of thirty years' standing declare that they never witnessed anything approaching to it. Shortly after seven o'clock the full force of the gale commenced. At that time the city became enveloped in an impenetrable cloud of dust, and the wind swept along with a velocity and force almost inconceivable. The sky was darkenrd by the dense clouds of dust, mixed with gravel, which were hurried rapidly along; in the Inside of dwelling-houses it became impossible to distinguish one article from another, and numbers of persons felt convinced, says the Melbourne Argua, that some alarming convulsion of nature was at hand. For nearly two hours the wind maintained Its violence.  PLAYING wirri