The Herald of Wales. — 1889-10-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SATUKDAY.  The State Line 'steamer State of Nebraaka and the Allan Liner, Norwegian collided cm the Clyde on Saturday morning, the former having a large hole in her bow,  The Duke and Duchesa of rife arrived at Banff on Saturday. The principal buildings Cud houses were tastefully decorated in their honour. Beautiful woather prevailed. _  Intelligenee has readied Belfast of the burning of Six-towns Presbyterian Church, near Draperatown. The walls only were left standing. The the vras caused by overheating of a chimney. All hope boa been abandoned of the safety of the West Hartlepoolsteamer, Chanticleer, which left Blyth for Sweden three weeks ego, and has not since been heard of. She carried fifteen hands.  The Telegraph Jays :Sir William Hassonrt will be the guest of Mr. Gladistone at Rawarden Castle, 'or to his visit Carnarvon, where a demonstratMn is to be held on y next. The measles epidemic is extending at Rngely. All the public elementary schools, as well as the Garman schools and most private establishments are closed, and Sunday echools will not be 0. _  'The Daily New Vienna correspondent telegraphing on Friday says: Professor Isidor Ncennarm, specialist for dOevwes of the skin, who was ontunoned to Portugal to giro his opinion on the iting's condition, has declared It to be very serious. I A fire, which assumed serious dimensions, broke out in the stables of the tramway company 'at Bordeaux Thirty-five horses were burnt to death. The loss is estimated at 300,000 frame, which is covered by inanranoe in English companies. The Prisons Board have not:fied their intention of abolishing_Sendal Prison, the only gaol within the county of Westmoreland. At present there are only 13 prisoners, while the solarise of the eight officials who are employed at the prison amount to £l,OOO per mannm.  The miners' corderenCe, sitting inßirminglutm on Friday, decided by 93 votes to ld, that from the Ist of January it 4 men and boys there represented waking underground shall commence working eight hours a day batik to bank. Two delegates remained neutraL The Eev. H. Greene, grandson of the late Canon Greene, of Bristol, and a recent ocarvert to the Banish Church, ha, informed Cardinal Nanning that he feels compelled to withdraw from the Catholic Comminnan amen his eminence refuses to administer to him the customary sacrament of oonfirmation.  The lit -ITIt says : Lord Zeta:ad has arrived at his Yerkre seat, Asko Hall, Richmond. On Wednesday next His Excellency, as Lord Lieutenantof Ireland, will resolve the congratulatory address from the various Conservative associations of the district, and a banquet will afterwards be held.  On Saturday morning the fireman on board the Cunard steamer 'Umbria etruck work, and came ashore. The reason is said to be that the union men would not work unless the nonunionists were dismissed. The sailing of the vessel for New York was delayed inconsequence, butthere was a psi' ntiful supply of menwilhing to take the place of the strikers. Two gold rings, supposed to be those worn by the late Mr. Edwin Rcee who was murdered in Arran, have been found , °neon the Clyde shore near Dumbarton, and the other by a girl attending a band of hope meeting in a lawn tennis ground. The rig bore the initials "E. L. R." Laurie was known to have been in this neighbourhood, and the matter is being intesti gated.  When making the rates at the Clerkenwell Vestry, Mr. Ross said the Holborn Union had saved £1,500 in four months by weeding out the impostors of the metropolis and sending everybody to their own pariah. At there were between 800 and 900 vacant Maeri the establishments of the Holborn Union, and the poor-rate demand has considerably decreased.  A Central News telegram from Berlin on Friday says :—The Czar arrived here thia-mern' log and was welcomed at the station by the Emperor, the Royal Princes, and state dignitaries. The greetings exchanged were very hearty, and the Emperors drove re an-open carriage to she B.nesisn Embassy, but there were no 4arge crowds in the streets, as when King Humbert end the Emperor Francis arrived. John Cunningham, a Salvation Army captain ,at Shirley, Sowthanspbcm, has been °barged at I the County Police Court with creating an obi struction by holding a public meeting in the street on Sunday evening. He had previously undergone seven days' imprisonment for a similar offence, and was now fined I Os.tand costs, or fourteen days' imprisonment. He went to prison.