The Herald of Wales. — 1888-06-16 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OUR NAVY,  REPORT OF THE OOMMITTEE. 1 The second report of the Committee on Navy I Estimates, issued on Tuesday, states that the general arrangements for supply and issue of 1 victuals and clothing for the Navy appear to be businesslike and satisfactory. With regard to the health of seamen of the Navy the committee record that the general health is eatiefactorg, and has improved of late years. The state of the medical department is said to be now satisfactory, and there is an ample supply of good and well-qualified candidates, snob as was not obtained a few years ago. The committee believe that this desirable result has been secured by attaching to the service exceptional advantages of pay and retirement, and that the necessity of continuing these advantages to future entrants deserves the watchful attention of the Board of Admiralty. high inducements given to junior officers to retire especially deserve notice. The committee fear, however, there is • tendency to find nominal employment for a larger number of medical officers than is actually required.  An aged pauper, named Banderson, an inmate of Bradford Workhouse, is under arrant for a violent assault upon a companion, named I Marshall, who is dying from the effects of the injuriee. Mr Bright passed a moderately good night en Monday night, and is gradually regaining strength. All the Ministers except Lord Ashbonrne were present at the Cabinet oounoitonTnesday, previous to the meeting of which Mr Plunkett submitted to Mr W. H. Bmlth some oontemplated structural alterations in the House of Commons. _  The death is announced in Belfast, on Tuesday, of the Bev. Thomas Ellis, rector of Killylea, County Armagh. The deceased clergyman was a prominent msmber of the Orange Institution and took part in several controversies, regarding Home with Mr Gladstone and a number of other leading politicians. I The Belfast newspapers of Tuesday state that on the day before Colonel King-Harman died he wrote to Mr Balfour resigning the Under-Secretaryship. The letter, it is added, was received by the Chiet Secretary a few hours after learning the news of his colleague's death. _ _ _  -A case of attempted murder and suicide occurred this afternoon at Broughton Ferry, Dundee, a fisherman named Jamee Lorimer having stabbed his wife and then cut ht a throat with • razor. Ihe woman had been selling fish, and returning home intoxicated, abused her husband, with the result that, in II pIISSIOII, he stabbed her with a knife with winch he was repairing the fishing lines. He then out hie throat with a razor. Both are reported to be dying. All the miners employed at Rowley Hall Colliery, Staffordshire have turned out on strike owing to a dispute with the masters. Late on Saturday evening a married woman, whose husband resides at 57, Nelson-street, Marshes-road, Newport, attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the Monmouthshire Canal near the Marshesroad. An artilleryman named Denham was attracted to the spot by the splash, and succeeded in dragging her out. She.afterwarde told the police her hasbani, who is a labourer, came home drank and quarrelled with her, and that she went to the canal with the intention of drowning herself. A