The Herald of Wales. — 1889-05-11 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GAZETTE NEWS.  FIRST MEETINGS AND DATES OP PUBLIC EXAMINATIONE3. _ _ _  , Griffith Davies, High-simmt, Swansea, hemmed victualler ; first meeting May 14, at 11.30 a.m., M the Official Receiver's, ; public examination May 30, BA eleven a.m., at the Town-hall, Swansea. Himry Davies, College-street, fivraimea, groom ; first meeting May 14, at won, at the Official Receiver's Swansea; pabho examination May 30, at deven a.m., at the Town-hall, Swansea.  Isaac Holdway, Montpellier-terrace, Saranac's, wood turner; first meeting May 14, at eleven a.m., at the Official Bcioetver'a, Batland-street, SWWW3BII, ; public examination May 30, at eleven a.m., at the Town-hall, Swansea.  The heaviest thunderstorm known in Boa- 1 logne for years occurred on Monday afternoon, lasting from four o'clock till seven. The rain fell in torrente, and many cellars were flooded, fire w&es having to be employed to clear the town om water. The Rue de Notre Dame suffered seriously from the storm, and gives the appearance of having been bombarded, the pavement being torn up, and the road reedit's& impassable. Several persons vrere injured. Early on Tuesday morning, a man about 30 ears of age, was found lying on the floor of a in a house of bad repute, in Liverpool, where he warn seen to go with a young woman. He had a revolver wound in his head, and died shortly after being removed to the hosrpital, without regaining 001196011H/16611. The young woman has disappeared, but the case is coneideml one of suicide. From papers found on the body the deceased is supposed to be J. D. Harris, 3, Vinery Villas, Park, London. On Tuesday, at the first meeting held under the bankruptcy of the Marquis of Donegal, who had bankruptcy proceedings taken against him as Earl of Belfast, the creditors refused to adjourn the meeting puling legal proceedings being Wren to set aside the barring of the entail, and resolved to wind up the estate in bankruptcy. Out of the total liabilitiesl £616,000 represent poet obit bonds given by the: bankrupt for which he says he received only , £25,800. _  An accident of a remarkable character took place at Colchester on Saturday. It appears that Messrs. Dempster, gas engineers of Manchester, have been for some time engaged in carrying on experiments with a 6W-feeding retort, similar to that in use at Rochdale. About seven o'clock on Saturday morning, while the men were at work, an explosion occurred, and a large hopper, holding about a ton of coal, designed to go over the mouths of the retorts, fell from a height of fourteen feet. FIAT men were at work beneath, and, but for the fact that a strong spindle and wheel which wore lying there received the principal part of the ponderous weight, they would have been killed. As it was, four of them managed to escape with slight injuries, while the fifdr, named Walter Adams, had one of his thighs badly fractured. He was removed to the hospital, and, though ls condition is serious, holm of his recovery are entertained.  Many suggestions lame bean put forth for the destruction of the rabbits which are a veritable plague in the Australian colonies, and among others Pasteur has suggested a method whioh was probably revolting to many by its cruelty, and dangerous in itspossibilitias. The latest suggestion made to the Colonial Government has 1 the merit of offering an altogether novel idea. 11n this the proposal is to trap the females only, instead of the bucks, which he claims can be done by changing the bait, for at present the males only are caught. By thrill reducing the proportion between the sexes, but in the opposite direction to that hitherto affected, the number of breeders will be enonnoludy checked, and theexouse of males will speedily Mingabouta destruction of the female rabbits by the way in which they will be pursued. This scheme has the merit of containing an original idea, and things are in such a desperate state that it will probably be tried.  An enterprising Belgian 'gendernan has been seeking to persuade the directors of the greet Paris Exhibition to further his plans by allowing him the means of adding a human exhibition to the attractions the French capital will offer tourists and foreigners this summer. His scheme is to assemble a collection of national types and figures, and he is very anxious to have the wood of Vinoennea lent him for the accommodation of his " selected exhibits" from all the countries of I the world. He undertakes to supply the chosenl types from the different regions of the globe, and to see that they are pmpedy eared for, labelled, and classified, his notion being that a human exhibition of this description would afford the "insult" an opportunity for seriatim study, whilst the tourist would find amusement and instruction combined in it. M Berger, however, the chief administrator of the International Flrhibitice in the Champ de Mars, has informed the Belgian gentleman that for the present he does not see his way to close with his offer, however sidmirable his project may be. In point of fact, anyone who wants to see a human exhibition, will only have to come ever to Paris and spend a few weeks there daring the Ipreeent summer. The groat ceremonial, on Sunday,at Von:allies wee conducted with all due solemnity and splendour. The president of the Republic drove in state from the Elysee to Versailles, and formally affixed a commemoratory tablet to the wall of the Salle de Menus, in which, on the 6th lof May, 1789, the States-General held their iimugmal sitting—an ent which was the first step in the Revolution,and marked thetommencemmt of the modern history of France. After the ceremony, orations, partly congratulatory but chiefly admonitory, were delivered by President Carnot and AL H. Rover, the President of the Senates, to a brilliant assemblage of the authorities and notabilities of France. The cee, don 'Hearne to have paved off with all possible splendour and sneocess, and if it were not for the consideration that—and especially in Paris—the seeming effect of a great demonstration is BO loften rudely dissipated by the searching test of Ithe ballet-box, the outburst of popular enthusiasts which has been evoked by the fete of the Revolution might be taken as evincing the strength and depth of the attachment of France and her people to free Republican institutions. The only incider' which manna the full glory of the occasion the firhig at the President of a revolver elwith a thrik cartridge by some he,' hunteir after n0t0,4-' We  00012ftell00