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The Herald of Wales. — 1889-10-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

HOBBIS.  8, Onmge,street, Swansea, September 2eth, 1889.  "Dear Sir,— " Can you, at ease from every various toil And anxious thoughts, that sweet contentment spoil,— tft.y, can this effort 0 your yupffs' care .Add one faint pleasure to tim stock you share? While ranging Cambria's mon" sublimely grand, Charmed by the beauties of your native hunt Led by your will, wo study to improve The fleeting hour, and to obtain your love. No novel scenes now here arrest our eyes, But those fair landser.pcs which in books arire ; Yet books have stated periods to amuse, And, to be candid, by your leave we choose, "I'll! you return, such pleasures to refuse. And while this task of writing we discharge, Aerept our catalogue of sports at large, That, when retamsing duties bid you gain From Offa's realms caaffordia's greener plisin. This register, compared with yours, may show Our inosperianced minds the charms that grow In Nature, Sidenm, or the Muse's lire. And prompt as te'rcla each treastues to aspire. First, then, —but, au 1 I must «attract my plan, For shame skulks near with trifles in the van. And the fastidious Muse disdains, I wilt, To stain hoc page with such a motly list, As each sutmmiWe day prolific brings, Of boyish schemes, and aoundem trivial things; Such childish, vagaries, exposed to view. We fear will meet with no excuse from you. Be it enough if your example claim Our future study, and our breasts inflame;— The pupil, mounting on the tutor's plan, In knowledge growing as he grows to man. Aspiring thus we'll folly bid adieu, And trace the pleasure and the muse to you. June, "  The election of a successor to Dr. Kelly, la' is Roman Catholic Bishop of Londonderry, took place on Wednesday, the majority of the votee Laing for the Rev. J. O'Doherty. The names or the priests who received the most votes will be submitted to the Vatican. In view of the recent raids on dubs, the committee of a Birmingham Club have taken the opinion of Mr. Polandus to whether bacearatmay • boplayed. It was pointed out that the club was not a prnprietory, but a legally constituted member's club. Vidtorftwere notallowed in the card r.lom, either as playe.a or spectators. Mr. , Poland says it i 3 illegal to allow baccarat to be I habitually played even in a bona fide club. At Dublin, on Wednesday, District Inspector Carter and. Constable Twoky, Royal Irish Constabulary, against whom a eoinnw's jury in Tipperary found a verdict of " murder'in connection with the shooting of a man on the occasion of a tumult, were committed for trial. The Attorney-General consenting, both were admitted to bail.  The workmen working at and living in the neighbourhood of St. Thomas, held their first annual picnic,. The party, which was a large one, wore conveyed in brakes from the Ship Inn, Box/sole, to the picturesque spot of Par-bail The Swansea Towo Band accompanied the I party, and played several selections in their] wall-known style. Mr. J. Beale), the landlord of the Ship Inn, supplied the refreshments, ad had the carrying out of the picutc arringementa, which were completed to the satiefactiou of all.
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-01-26 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MUSWELL HILL BURGLARY.  At the Highgate Police Court on Monday, the four men, Burdett, Clarke, Smith, and Lyster, were again brought up eltarged with burglary and shooting at George Atkins at the Norton Lees, Mnsweli-hlll, with intent to murder. Mr Pollard, who represented theTreasnry, said he proposed to offer evidenoe showing that some time ago Lyster and Clarke were together in Bristol, and on the alann, of thieves being taken up, the men named, Spaitzd pursued a person who turned round- and presented a revolver. Spofford can swear to the man Liter. The landlord of the Mail Coach, Rangeland-road, swore to Burdett and Clarke 'as the men who called at the house shortly 'after the burglary and tendered in payment for drink • Jubilee font sniffing piece, one of which it will be remembered was stolen from Norton Lem.  A merchant from whom the purse was bought identified the framework found at Clarke's house, and said a similar purse would not be found in London. He admitted the frame might be that of a bag. Dorothy Atkin, a little girl, reoognised aome articles found with the frame as similar to those she had lost. .  The oat& next door to Norton Lees, who met four men near the house just beftre the burglary, thought Clarke was one of those men, but declined to swear to him. _  Hairy Wright Atkin, the tenant of Norton Lem, corroborated the evident* already given by his younger son Bannyer Atkin, and added that he wee unoertLn whether one or both of the men whom he first saw getting out of the bedroom window fired at him, One man, however, fired twice at witness, and subsequently at Bemire Atldn, who lied a walla with one of the men and pursued him for some distance on Muswell Hill-road. Returning to the house he heard other shota and found his son George had been shot. He knew none if the men  ; Spofford, the witness alluded to in lift Pollard 's opening, said on the 20th of December he was in Clifton Park, Bristol, when he:maw five or Nix men come from a house, and heard odes of "police." He believed Clarke was one of those men and was sure that Lyster was another, the latter being the man whom he chased and who pointed the revolver at him, saying "If you advance I'll fire." Amos Russell, aesiotant to a Bristol pawnbroker, said in December a man whom he be. tiered to be Lyater, twice pledged with him the ring produced, and other articles which were on the lost occasion redeemed by • London agency. He also knew Clarke, but could not ' remember under what ciroimstanoes he had ;  met,bim. Lyvter he vas not able positively to identify, but he picked him out from a number of other men.  Several witnewes have been called for the purpose of tracing Lyster to Southampton where he was apprehended from the home in Shoreditsh. Mrs Bernard, who was visiting her mother at C:ifton Park at the end of December, stated that she lost £l,lOO worth of jewellery, and that she recognised Clarke and Lyeter, the former being the man who was held by the footman, but escaped, and the latter one who got away at the outset, The prisoners were again remanded.
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-10-08 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ROUSED EDITOR.  The United iillila On Thirstluy morning in a leader on thu alleged °roller telegram rays: Will it be b hewed that Mr O'Brien's assertion was met by contradiction because it was believed from die condenoed accounts of the telegram published that he was in possewrion of complete proof. The rypber at the time had not ben completely interpreted, but bit by bit it Mos been almost tbrougbly made out and we now I give it to the world in all its bloom and hearty Men of briefness in Swansea who have had nip :—.. mistake gni,- on the first „eidetic,. am d, expurienee A law will no doubt heartily i O'Brien will beat us. 'Leaky no good. Keep j agree with the ideas entinciated during a die. to the second race, nod that only. You art I mission at the Associated (71,robers of Conanieree : making a farce of tin: whole affair. Can't you in Exeter. The eubject was thu vexed question . keep quiet ? Send on your complaint about of barristers feet. I- ii on the face , ii. _. 41111144.08. e en. ISTB . our e The In 43 at nat meeting of it absurd that g..ntl, men of the : will do the rest. To ought to act no to your wig and gown hive a lege' . instructions, but de not attempt to go further." right to take payment for work which they do We frankly own that there are still one , not do, and which, it must be admitted, in some ,or two words of the cypher that 1 CJWII they do not mean to du. Commercial men •we M,,y not have rendered with I want to know whether this is right, whethee it I en.tetttnie, but its genera! substantial accuracy ! is even moral, whether, in net, it is urn below Iwe challenge them to put the only test hat eau , the level of what is known as " commercial I eatisfy the public. When the Tones forged Mr. la irality." Other professional men, such as ' Parnell'e signature. its friends declined to ,luctors, can keep their pa. ionic welting ; but no j submit the matter to a committee of Tories in one ever heard of a doctor eecepting ten, twenty, I the House of Commons. Nothing but the law or a hundred guineas es n. fee for visitjng a ! courts would sandy them. We cannot invite p dient, and then quietly ptketing the each and j a committee of the House of Commons deelining to go near the core. The law, with ~0 pm, judgment on the rasealities of Mr its intolerable expensiveures, its multipheity of j Peter O'Brien, but we can ask the Government appeale, and (in some instseeee) its incompetent . whether he should not be compelled judges, has thoroughly dis.pieted our leading :to force this before a jury, Cr else eommercial houtres. They have preferred to •be Mit out with iguorniny f tofu official life, arbitrate their differences in private rather than 1 submit to tee delay and vex,tiollpilP.P, and no- 1 c,rtetuty of a legal aetiou. The jeer with the : THE MURDER OF HEADgolden eggs haP, in fact, b-eo killed, awl law— „ , tees must reform theroselv,e if they wish to get '
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-04-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RUSSIAN I•TA KS.  A St. Petersburg telegram say.: —The Government iuteeda to double the coal duty—viz., from half to one copeck gold per I, kilogrammes A Herein telegram cot.tirms the reported attempt on the hie of the Czar on Thursday last. Hie Majeety was fired at while walking in the ' GatscLina Park. Ilia assailant was arrested. A Daily ...V;Pre Vienna correspondent, telegraphing on Friday, save :—The Russian Minister of the Interior has placed 200,000 ' roubles at the disposition of the police for the , rpurpose of unravelling the Nihilistic organisations at home, and 100,000 roubles for the ' same object abroad. The Taw Vienna correspondent telegraphs: —I am informed that M. de Labonlaye, the French Ambassador in St. PetenMurg, having aakad whether Russia would take part in the Patio Exhibition of 1889, has received a most emphatic answer in the negative, which was, in fact, given in such terms as ta astonish him. By the Czar's orders. he was told that the Russian Government could take no part in f.tivities for the gloriflcati m of a revolution, and that it would prohibit private persons, merchants and others from having anything to do with the exhibition.  A. young man named William Andrew Hughes akin Patterson, has just been arrested in London, on the charge of stealing a bag con. taming £56 from the Newport Siipway and Engineering Company in November let. The way in which the theft was accornpleihei does credit to the ingenuity of the accused whatever may be said of his neeralitv. It appears that for some time previous to the robbery he had been in the employment of the accountant who had the auditing of the company's accounts, and was in the habit of going frequently to that office on his master's. business. Shortly before the robbery, however, he left the service of the auditor though the fact was not known to the Slipway Company's official'. It was then he inaugurated his little scheme. As a first move the accused chartered a steam tug to convey him about noon on Saturday, the 20th Ncvember, from the Alexandra Dock to Portishead, where Hughes gave out that he had to arrange for a supply of cold. A few minutes before 12 o'clock he went to the Slipway office apparently in the ordinary way of business. The cashier went out for a mnnsent awl Hughes nimbly appropriated ' the bair, and, clipping out or the office, at once boarded the tug. After some time it was dieeovesed whither he had gone, and the police telegraphed to Portishead to hove him arrested The telegram wise ton late, however, and Mr. Hughes took train, no man knew whither. Subsequently, he worked Brietol and Waterfnri ; then returning to Milford, and fie.ing by the newspapers that the police were on his track, he took a trip to the Isle of Marl, via Liverpool. , Then he visited Leith, Edinburgh, and London, ' TILE TRIPLE MURDER IN living like a prince at first clue hotels.. Then he is said te have visited Swansee, and amused
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-04-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ASSAULT.  J. Williams, Llandilo-Taly-bont, summuied Mary Rees for assault. Defendant was .weeping some refuse about complainant's premises, and, on being remonstrated with, responded with a volley of stones. The assault was proved, and defendant was tined I is. and Costs.  William Gardiner was discharged at Tredegar Police Court, on Tuesday, no evidence being forthooming t prove that he had caused the death of one George Bruce, in December last. A woman, named Mary Williams, gave birth to a male child, on Monday, in one of the cells of Tredegar police station, whither shellac' been taken Cu the previous Saturday for stealing a quantity of wearing apparel. The Elliot home for seamen. which has been erected as Newport by Sir George Elliot, at a cost of £1,200, was opened on Tuesday afternoon. The home is attached to the Seamen's Institute and Church.  At New Chapel Police Court, new Cardigan, on Tuesday, Margaret Stephens and Enos Davies, halt-sister and brother, who were arrested last week on a (large of concealment of birth, were committed for trial at the Swansea Assizes, on a charge of wilful murder. Great excitemeut ban been caused it Rhymney through a whole family being arrested, on suspicion of being concerned in the burglaries which have recently taken place in the neighbourhood. At the back of 13, denkin's-row, the police, after a few minutes digging , came across a basket of jewellery and other articles. An tunisual scene occurred at the Tredegar Police Court on Tuesday. & collier, named Walter Davies, was brought up charged with deserting his wife. This, however, proved to be untrue, he stating that hi, wife left him of her own free will. The Beite.h were of opinion they could not convict, and ultimately dismisaed the ease. As the man was coming down from the witness tiox ho 11.841 set on'' in a savage manner by his wife, who was seized by the I police in court, and placed in the dock on a charge of assaulting her htisbond. The woman wits cent to prison for 14 days for her unseemly onduct.  the Clowtmn Contommealth ear :—The Welsh Nonconformists have just received a slap in the face in the ahapa of an insinuation that there is not b man among theta suitable fur a county magiatrate. Sir I'. Esmonde has naturally been inquiring whether it is a fact that 7.5 per cent, of the inhabitant.. of Fliutabire are Nonconformists, und that yet there is not a single Dissenter among the county magistates. The people of Wales are not likely to be satisfied with the supercilious and enmities relpy wires in the House of Commons by the Home Secretary oil behalf of the Lard Chancellor, that the latter might be trusted to nominate suitable peroolle, without any regard to their religious beliefs. Unfortunately, other diatriets of the kingdom are aharply expressing their dissatisfaction with the shamefully .partisan character of Lord Halabury's applintm.ats. Li yue Aid .n.eo tire.oereer, Bilious Cempiatat indigmtom. Co.tiverims. Rbemneties or 140-1)01Jrtl5
The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-07-07 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

PRCIP.V.II.,.2th f 111 feet falling down vml completely covelieg . , mm 7 ,i,••• • I :'•••,I, r,e, ••,,, 7, , They were quite dead vs h recovered. All tt s m <lies stated_ that tbey were van ware of the slip i oaf, but tulleved 7 t to I,- nerfectly sound am ,e..eng. They also fell safe from t e fact that the root. was well supported with timter. The coal has been worked for the I mst eight years, rod this was the first ac2.,lent of the kind, and the manager stated that this part of the roof was considered the safest in the pit. It is seventy years since so ma' y wen were killed at once by R fal of "bind" in the collieries in the neighboirhoed. Verdict: "Accidentally killed."  Poo!:!to;.'1,uo t o ~o;osto., Perak* in their power. Thst men ot this conspicuous ; I capacity and vigour are to be had in such numbers for I the asking can leave no doubt of the resources of tbrs country under any great pressure. About one-fifth of I the whole available volunteer foroe may be considered to have been OD Saturday under arms, and re•. I garsfing them, se we undoubtedly may, for thin reason just stated, as a fair specimen of the! whole, the value of the force, which in Borne quarters has lately been questioned, must be regarded as. placed beyond dispute. In efficiency and military aptitude they exhibited a greater improvern.nt than, could hove h-en an icipared l.y coy who have not e 'iced the constant vigilance a arch has of late years been Iwoto wed upon them. After the en.thrisiaant with nit oh tics move bent * need, ti,ere ro"lri hø! g. qtgeAtion Tim I.e force gtoved a tetlttPl).7 to' call ..7" ; mike in nutuhers and in quality, and it. basaine Sary fur the xr,rnment ofgppiy striew and strer tests as a condition for pecoorare aid.. This wit lesome strictness, however, instead of acting, as the feebler spirits had apprehended, as a iiiseotars•lemeot. lonl the effect of rendering the force more attractive by making it more real. One simple comparison of figures is enough to indicate the results which have been atisined. In 1863, out of 163,000 men enrolled, about 114,000, or less than 70 per cent., were efficient. But in 1875, out of 181,000 men enrolled, about 189,000, or more than 93 per cent., were efficient, the standard of efficiency having itself also been rsiaed. The substantial meaning of these figures was on Saturday placed beyond a doubt. So far, at all events, as tbe rank and file went, there were regiments which mould not have been ciseredited by a direct comparison with regular troop, ; and the beat regiments in is voluntary force, even more than in a regular one, tend to raise the others up to their level. The men, by the mere I fact of their volumeering, exhibit a spirit of military emulAtion, and they inlv be relied upon not to acquieece in merliocri:y.—  CHARGE OF MURDERING t
The Blackpool Herald. — 1889-12-13 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

ASSAULT ON THE HIGH SEAS. —At the Blackpool Police Court, yesterday afternoon, before R. Handley, Esq., and Alderman W. 11. Cocker, William Wohlers was charged under the Merchants Shipping Act of 1854, section 243, sub-section 6, with assaulting, on board the "Edinburgh,' the mate, Daniel Jones, on the lit of August, whilst on a voyage from Astoria to Fleetwood.—Mr. T. Clarke appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. R. F. Addle for the prisoner.— Mr. Clarke said that since the prisoner had been arrested he had expressed his sorrow and apologised for what he had done, and on the payment of costs the prosecution was willing to withdraw the case.—Mr. Addle said that since the assault took place, up to Monday last, bath men had been on perfectly good terms with one another, and therefore it would be a pity for the Bench to press the ease.—Upon these recommendations the Bemis dismissed the case on payment of costs.  A very pretty custom has been inaugurated this season by some fashions') e brides. Someone, it seems, has hit upon the idea of placing in the bride's bouquet as many blossoms of one particular kind as 'here are hridesmsids ; and one Of these flowers, on her return from the church, the newlymade wife presents to each of her attendant maidens as a souvenir. To one oi the blossoms a ring is attached, and it is, of course, suggested that the recipient of this particulir one will be the next bride. Whether this s further intended to be a spur to the best man of the occasion, I do not know, but at all events the custom, if generally carried ou , will make a little merriment for the bridesmaids, who, however attractive they may be, never get more than a small share of attention 911 these occasions.  Mr. fle,.ry Madan, J.P., of Rockliffe Roues, Bacup, and Alexandra-road, Blackpool, who had been selected us the Liberal candidate tocontest the Roesendale division against Lord Hartington, has been obliged, on the advice of his physician, to decline the candidature. On Fliday the Liberal Executive of the division forwarded to him a resoMtion regretting that the state of his health nece•witated such a decision, expressing their grateful appreciation of his counsel and support, and trusting that he would long be spared to the advantage of the Liberal party and the locality.  Here is a temperance address, as eloquent aa it is brief. In charging the grand jury at Liverpool As-iz,e, on Fliday, Mr. Justice Grantham commented upon the fact that nearly all the crimes of murder, manslaughter, wounding, and robbery with violence, with which they had to deal, originated in drink. He could not help fe, ling that if something could be done to save these people 'tom themselves, a lasting benefit would be conferred upon the community. His lordship common :ed the efforts of those who were trying to h ighten the homes of tho poor, for, he renta-ked, no one who sivr many of those horn is could b. surprised that the people who lived in such places 'vitt to the publis houses for warmth, comfort, and society.