The Herald of Wales. — 1890-05-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

NEWPORT.  The Ilaino-Elliet scandal is to be revised. I when Miss Hairs promises to make it Lot for more than Sir George Elliot. A sad drowning fatality has ocaurred at New. I port. Augustus Davies is a little bsy three years of age, and Lis father took his little dead body out of a brick pond near Marion street, Newport, where it was floating. :Too Corporation of Newport intend laying out £6,121 on the improvement of their streets. On Wednesday Colonel Susard, on behalf of the Load Government Board, heard evidence in Ifavour of the town being granted powers. I El ullook and Sons, of Newport, have prose,' anted George Llevrelyn, their errand boy, for I petty lareency. They had missed money from I time to time, and on Monday they marked a I half-crown and placed it in the till George fell into the trap, and now, in all probability he is suftenng from the effects of a birthing the magkiraie awarded him. Jealousy has led a man named Thomas Riddell i to attempt to commit suicide by hanging himself. Riddell was a married man, and his wife playfully told him that she liked the lodger better, with the result that the remark preyed so heavily on his mina that he thought it better to put and end to himself than live with an nnfaithful wife. Organiaition among cyclists is being_ made perfect. •A .0.1:13 to this awl is the Western Counties elyulistel Camp, which will be held during the -Whitsuntide holidaya, 22nd to 28th inst., at Newport. About 100 wheelmen are expected to bh under canvas, and the regulations will be on the 'lines of volunteer camp'. On Whit Tuesday • race meeting wilihe Lai in cemneation with the caw at the -Newport I Atliletio Ground. , I A little boy mulled George IT nry Saunders Iwill rapidly make a name for hLuself if he is allowed by his parents, who reside at Newport. He Las already made his debut. A butcher, rejoicing in the ounce of Alfred Janice Phillips,  , 'salad George to take:care of his pony sellated I veined at £2O. The butcher went to tr-, his bola**, and shortly afterwards returned,: • and was not a little surprised to find hi ocelverot • ante and his temporary coachman missing Phillipe waited about for some time, but there were no signs of the return of the miming pony and trap, and at last he gave information to the police. The hours pulsed away, and at length information was received that the pony, trap, and boy had been stopped at Lycluey, just 30 miles from Newport. George was detained, and was handed over to the Monmouthshire police,. 4 will just now receive the attention of the mew -0. magistrates. a milk vendor, living at Lian, o.nly been a widower about seven week.,when took * young girl named Annie Willis into his :VIP' !I° housekeeper, and within a week promleefi.to.'w-marriaireo Both a tempting offer Annie could DM ,71'lliet and ohs consented to become his h did them part." He at length sedtwed her, sh.l. the in. teroourse continued for eight or nint‘ months. On April 14 13 there Yr" ushered into this world, amidst veteral rejotologe, a female child, of which Awe: said Holloway was the father. The Metrj..:^it magistrates concurred with her, and an fords: was made for 3s. eal. per week from the date off the child's birth, £3 midwife's expenses, and court costs. Holloway can get • license for a less slim than that which the court demands froze