The Nuneaton Times. — 1875-10-09 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England)

DRAINAGE OF TEE THAMES VALLEY.  The Native Guano Company are not to be allowed., to carry out tbeir ,sewage scheme at Kingston without encountering. serious opposition. The proposal ' to erect two iinnaease sewage tanks—itith an open evaporating surface—on the I;ianlia of the Thames has alarmed the inhabitanti of liampton Wick, on the ' other side of the river, who believe that the works I will not only be an annoyance but-alio dstririen.tal to their health'. Addressing a meeting of, the Bump- , ton Wick Loe.a.l Board, the City solicitor :said that ' contemporaneous with the announcement to 'execute ' these works there had been publicly made known the suicidal folly of the sesolv,e, because the Richmond vestry having dared tonflght the conservators—hiving appealed to the raw whether they Were or were hot to construct 'works Which everybody knew would put them•to much 'unnecessary expense and be'no good in the end—had obtained the decision of an indepen-', dent `arhitratot 'giving theta two yea& time more, Which they all knew signified that the Government, . having determined to issue a 'commission for the purpose Of' dealing with the 'drainage"of the *alley of the Theme, the question of 'executing any Ithrks wits to stand overlor two years, that the result oftbe totiniry Might be seen. They also knew that in the present month the commission commenced' ita work, and yet '! this *at the very time, for reasons which were inscrutable, th& •Xingston corporatioti had deckled to have tfaveseiskorkatrected instheir midst. The question was ' Ireferrseltot committee of the' whole board for them tO teld action.  ATTM!PTED srrciDE.  .! . George Smith, aged •about 64, has been °barged at ' Bow.street with attempting to commit suicide by : gutting his throat. Police-constable 69 E said that on ,• the 4th August last he was called to a house in Gray'. 4 Trin-road, when he found the prisoner being attended by a doctor. He had a wound, which had been sewn I . up by the, doctor, in his throat, and he appeared very weak from iOlB of Wood. The doctor ordered that he should be taken to the hospital, and this was done. Ha had been too ill to be brought up. Prisoner's wife said he had been employed it a smith's for 39 years; and one day in May last he went to work as usual and ' found the place shut up, and bills patted to the select that the place was -to :be, sold by auction. This gave hull such a shoot that he became ill, and reinsined.ill for three month., gradually becoming worse and verse, ,until at. theend he attempted to oommit suicidesPrism:ter now,,expressed his great eorrowatt hoeing . attometerk to 4?.. 144 own life.• He said he Wee net • in hie right serum at the time. Mr. Vaegben, odd e. mg into nonsideration the illuees prisocerlM4 • ~ s . Z tin t• ,to, and ..it yeas very likely the .draid‘of , ag, to ,p‘f rerit,had pcmapted _ him to attempt smith, turios, e,ehnuid allow luni.to be taken a wey. by hot Niel li, 1J 5 '4 -^".". : .1 .45 .. . . n . THE MARQUIS TOVISITEND ON A ' t.,v ` 7 —..nTIi"P:PRARCA'av .17 Ft'. I ' . .., 'll.ht ' Virldhr ." anti lifir:preeided at a lett' ' n 'ineetfti ''',ffi se kt %Nl'. tr4rile.,e• t,Blge 4, 1 ..„„" .orocii., ... ,tt .1,e,, t at eotr.i4:,r'_ , 0 kojlt F 4 $, , 1" i . . !aslitcy, 4, aulljept whioh e,' ie# liiis W 01941140,0 %AM Items .to the *intone, the , 111 prometien- a temperaace . was the greatest question.. . 'l. ' %Stich asetana•remeeniootrid be hint together to' l' tsmeillegrateeleldonsese. vs* the 'Diu ref tiodtl wtlie, ‘ A 41011to1e of the crime of the diiingdfoliti ' ll ' tin men, we stood in a position of most unpleasant and P-'• painful notoriety in consequence of the drinking customs of the country and terrible intempeninoe which existed in our midst, The question must, he believed, be taken up individually more than it had been. his lordship mentioned that the adoption of total abstinence principles bad improved his own health and the health of his two little children. Ile attacked the drinking habits of the people u the cause of a great einount of pauperism. ktesolutions were adopted in accordance with the general tamer of the speech of the noble marquis. 1 •