The Herald of Wales. — 1889-07-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LOCAF!—BOARD.  The Llanelly Local Board met on Tuesday Mr. Maybery presiding. It was decided tJ adopt a petition in favour of Sunday Closing for England. The resolution on the subject of Sunday Closing for Wales was deferred WI the next meeting. Mr. Hughes' motion to rescind the bye-law prohibiting smoking in the market was negatived by a majority of one.  The Welsh members of Parliament have resolved to decline the proposal of the Government to exclude Monmouthßhme from the action of the , Intermediate Education Bill.  The miners ia the Wyruastay Colliery, Ruabon, have resumed work after a stoppage of ' six weeks' duration. They have received an , advance of five per cent. " A meeting of the joint Police Committee the Glamorgan County Council and quart sessions was held at Cardiff on. Tuesday. The business wee to appoint a chairman and the cboica fell upon Judge Gwilym Williams. A Penygraig collier has attemp,t,,:to commit suicide at Peturth. Be threw ,lf from a railway bridge into a stream, but there was more mud than water, and he was fished out. He has been brought before the magistratpx and remanded.  The steamer Longhurst, of Newcastle, which arrived at Cardiff on Wednesday, reports a tragic affair while the steamer was corning up the channel. The second engineer, a middleaged man named Macdonald, suddenly jumped overboard and was never seen again. An inmate of the Bedwelty Workhouse was left some money about a month ago. This he squandered in drink, and becoming again penniless and destitute, he attempted to take his life by cutting his throat. His suicidal endeavour was unsuccessful, and he will be compelled to enter an appearance in the police court. The secretary of the Swansea Eye Hospital I acknowledges, with many thanks, the receipt of Ithe following contributions: 1 10s. from the I employees of the Low Level Haulage Company, £3 from the employees of I..±:nsrs. Cory, Yeo and Company'sTatent Fuel Works, £6 19a. 6d. from the employees of Messrs. Joshua Williams and Company, Limited, Heath. The secretary of the Swansea Hospital begs leave with best thanks to acknowledge the receipt of the under-mentioned donations : Workmen in the empLoy of the Graigola and Merthyr Fuel Company (per Mr. Westlake), 112 • workman in the employ of Messrs. Joshua Williams and Co., Aberdulais Tinplate Works, £34 lie. 6cl.  After an illness of a few days' duration, Mr. J. Peary, Timawr, Llanelli°, has succumbed to injuries received by a fall from a platform in course of ereJtion for an organ at the Tabernacle Chapel. Deceased had been a member of the church for over 50 years, and a deacon for a great portion of that time. He was highly esteemed. At a meeting of the South Wales College Council, it was announced that the Marquess of Bute was prepared to give £l,OOO towards the establishment of a chair of engineering at the college, provided sufficient funds were raised from among landlords and ooalovmers in the district to enable the Council to avail themselves of the amount voted them by the Drapers' Company. _ _  Ttiesday night, Albe t 7.3ritchley, aged 25, one of the Docks Postal Telegraph Office elerks, Swansea, passed quietly away at his residence, 20, Windmill-terrace, St. Thomas. Mr. Critchly was highly popular with his fellow clerks, and as late as last week, he was engaged in his usual duties in the office. He was taken ill with jaundice, from which he succumbed. He leaves a widowed mother to mourn, and several other relations.  A sad story was told the Cardigan coroner on Tuesday. A woman named Davies, who received a Government pension, and should have been well-to-do, was found dead in a hovel by the river. The woman was so much addicted to drink that she sold her bed in order to obtain it and slept on a bag of shavings. The jury found that she had succumbed to a (liars-% the natant) of which was not a.icertaitied. It is understood that in consequence of what fell from the Lord Chief Justice on the hearing of the rule tiFsi for a cetiorari in the matter of the new Tredegar Club at Cardiff, in the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday,with regard to the magistrates refusing to grant the defendant (Mr. W. Sutton) an adjournment to call witnesses in his defence, the defendant has determined to take the remedy suggested by the Lord Chief Justice to proceed criminally against the MHOtrates sitting on the csae for the malicious exercise of their authority. Her Majesty'. aunt oit Foxhound arrived in Swansea Harbour by the Wednesday merning's tide' and is now lying in the South Dock basn, wkiere she has already been inspected by a large number of people. -She his come for the purpose of taking the local R.N.A.V. Corps for their annual cruise. The volunteers will go out in detachments, each lot remaining at sea for about seven days. The Foxhound was visited this morning by Sub-Lieutenant Madge of the Swansea R.N.A.V.  The annual examination of pupil teachers for scholarships takes place this week, tuad,ras usual, the number of candidates for the few vacancies at the Swansea Training College for female teachers is very large. Some of the candidates sit at the to mtess of urtingdon's Schoolroom, and others at the hall and (leasroom of the college, tLe examination being conducted under the superintendence of H.M. local inspectors. The first sitting took place this (Wednesday) morning, and the examination wiR not be over till Friday. With the number of cyclists we have in Swansea we ought be able to bold some of the most interesting cycle races in Wales, but in order that the races may have something more than merely local interest it has been dedded to do two things, to make an annual cycle meeting which shall have at least one prize which will be worth striving for, and to--at the same time, benefit one of the noblest of our institutions— the Swansea Hospital. A movement is on foot which is certain to culminate in the provision of a 'grand challenge shield, called the hoepital challenge shield, which will be competed for three yease in succession before becoming the property a any person. The holder of the shield for the year will be looked upon as the , premier amateur eider in Wales. The hospital ' will benefit to the eibant of at least five guineas yearly, and Mr. Talfonx4 Shriek has eonsontdtoboabieldholig.