The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-03-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RESIDENT.  1111. GOVERNMENT ENQUIRY AT THE MUMBLES. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —After the overwhelming evidence of the incapacity of the present Oystermouth Local Board, given before the Government Inspector, it is clear its days are numbered and the present members can occupy their time in more congenial pursuits, such as plastering, sweeping chimneys, dredging, or the forge—such being the occupations of some of these gentry who say that the better classes will not come forward, yet when they have done so the preponderence of votes in the hands ci the lower classes has swamped them. To this I must add the ignorance of these people festered by the most glaring misstatements. The chairman in his examination makeethe following remarkable statement. That he voted for the removal to Penmaen because he was of opinion that the present board was utterly incapable of managing the affairs of the parish. Having regard to the fact that (as Mr W. R. Smith stated) Mr Nettell had led his eleven colleagues by the nose for years, I think it is a fair inference that the blame should be fathered on, the chairman, who has in reality made the OystermouthLocalßoard the laughing-stock of the neighbourhood, and worse still, retarded its prosperity. The Rev. S. Jones stated that some of the members voted or the dissolution under a misapprehension. So I can well imagine that they have been doing the same thing for years past. In the present instance they thought even under the new dispensation they would still rule the roast, and when they discovered they could not, they made a retrogade movement, but I am thankful to say unsuccessfully. It would be interesting to know how many resolutions the chairman has proposed and seconded or put into ship-shape for the uneducated of this now celebrated board. Why, the proposer of the dissolution, Mr. Woollacott, farmer and publican, Newton, had to seek his assistance, and when at a subsequent meeting it was unanimously resolved to remain in the "slough of despond," Mr. Woolacot did not like Balsam's ass come up to time, but was dumb. Lively person to represent the parishioners! No, Mr. Editor, for years past we have been dying of inanition, and I, as a resident of many years' standing, and owning a small property, feel sure that if the present move does not produce the long-needed vitality, then we had better move further West with the chairman.—Yours etc. "Moss THAN DIIPOIITTED"  Cremation under truly extraordinarr circumstances has just been performed in Paris, by order of a Judge of Instruction, with the sanction of the Prefect of Pollee. A chemist named Kel has been in prison for many months charged with having murdered his female servant, and burned i her n a stove. The girl disappeared, and the principal evidence of the murder is that some neighbours testify to a bad smell, like that of burning flesh, about the 3of the disappearance. The prisoner has en repeatedly examined and as persistently denied the charge. He argues from the smallness of the stove the impoest lity of having burned a body in it. The stove itself must be preserved intact to be produced at ties trial as apiece de eonrortion, but the prosecution have had a fee simile made. M. Camescasse gay. up a dead body form the hospitals for the pure pose of the legal experiment. The body was cut up, the lighted stove was fed with the pieces, and the medical experts were astonished to find lin how short a time they were reduced to a small quantity of ashes.