The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-09-04 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WWII. tzith contempt, have gone to their doom. people attempt suicide they render thew selves liable to be 'treated as criminals, and punished acoordingly, and it would be welllif persons who deliberately bathe under conditions of danger, and against the injuctions of those competent to advise them, should be similarly treated. At the same time every precaution should be taken to ensure the safety of bathers in our dißerent bays._ A person is liable at any moment to be ed with cramp, as the young Imam Kleieer was on Sunday, and, mile's aid Is forthcoming a 'fatality is inevitable. The swoon before last, a Mumbles lady, ' Mrs. Mahal, presented a boat to the Ornermouth Local Board for use in Langland durtnethe bathing season, but the board, with characteristic supineness' has treated the gift with indiffenmee, and has refused to pay a man a small weekly sum to attend to it while afloat. Had the boat been afloat on Sunday, it is pee • sible the lad Bennett might have been saved, and some persons are, not above ascribing his death to the do.nothing policy of the _ _ It •  octal authority. 1 Si; be hoped they will now employ a man to look after the boat for the rest of the Demon, and, ie possible, ward Off the recurrenoe of auataetrophe similar to that of Sunday.  It telegrams to hand can be relied upon, the newspaper reading public have yet another start ling treat in -store for them. It appears that there are at preeent inOmdnrhmant two Englishmen, prisoners, one of whom is said to be, from the description of him to hand, none other than Mr. Gordon, tee war oorre.spondemt,who, following the late Sir Herbert Stewart's gallant ' column into the desert towards Abu Klee' was never more heard of. It is now oonjectered that he lost his way, got captured by the Handi's scouts, and carried off as • prisoner. Should enact, the imprisoned men prove to be Mr. Gordon, and should he succeed 711 reaching Ail' country again, his captivity will prove a mine of wealth to himself, and the record of it lan unusual treat to the reading public. It is highly probable that he will be able to tell us something ooneerning his namesake, the heroic general, who perished at Khartoum, and his ex• pertencee among the Sondaneee, a people not too well known, will have all the interest begot by novelty.  The prevailing weather in Swansea is, to say the least, peculiar. At one moment the sky becomes overcast as though threatening rata, the next everything is bright and clear. The teraperatare le alio equally changeable, at one time tamest suffocating, and a little later quite cold. The sea showthat there is or has been 'stormy weatber iirthellVestern Ocean, for while the face of the channel is as calm as a mill pond; the ground eurf of the last few days has been exceptionally heavy, and of an mammal angry character. Old salts are looking out for the worst, meanwhile none but powerful friritantelll are recommended to bathe in the boys on the Atlantic Coast.  I Wednesday was or ought to be a red-letter 1 day in the history rif Swansea, for it is the day that plates our -town something like two I hours nearer London in a.travelling sense than it has been before. The Severn Tunnel is opened for regular goods traffic for the first time, and by the end of the year we shall have the line opened for passengers. We shall then receive our London newspapers in the fore, instead of the afternoon, end a journey to the Metropolis will be ices fatiguing than at przsent. In view of the opening of the passenger and mail traffic it would be well if our local authorities were to agitate for the conveyance of the American mails .6 Swansea instead of Queenstown, as at present. It is well-known that a saving of nearly a day would be effected in be delivery of the Metropolitan mail, and we ahatild imagine; that the business mea of the great city have only to be made aware ef this to indaoe them to petition the post office for the oonveysnoe of their Au micas letters via Swansea.  The police-authorities is Cardiff have made and are about continuing to make • determined raid upon the us.. clubs of that tows and none too soon. Cardiff latterly has been a 'hotbed of crime, and has furnished the bulk of the cases heard in our assize courts, and in the majority of instances the bogus clubs have been the immediate cause of the mime. Case after case at the last and at the previous tundra dialosed the fact that the prisoners were in such and such a "club." These illicit drinking dens may or may not be the outcome of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act, but It Is as much to the interest of publicans as to that of temperance I people thatthese_plaoes should be put down with a strong hand. There are some clubs in Swansea which are simply private liquor shops, but lat terly these have been kept fairly quiet. The complaints have not been an loud concerning them as they were years ago, but even at the worst period, the bogus clubs of Swansea. were palaces of virtue compared with some of the drinkshops in the Cardiff back slums. According to the Cardiff Road Constable, one hundred and forty eight clubs are to be proceeded against. But supposing convictions are obtained, what then? Neither magistrate nor anyone else according to the present state of the law, has power to prevent persons from forming another institution of a similar kind. The evil demands parliamentary interferenoe, which it is to be hoped will not be long delayed.