The Herald of Wales. — 1888-11-24 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TIM EITENSION OF VIZ BOR9IIOII BOCNDRT.  The Chairman then real the repnr of the tl .mmittee appointed to deal wit` I.e li:opened extension of the boma:ti borindery, which was adverse to the extension. l'he Chairman wished to know how th expenditure of £20,000 on the Mumbles would . improve Cirmbwrla. The death rate of th, , rural distriot was favourable when compare. wiih that of the urban, lied disease, instead of coming ft to the rural district, arose in th, borough, ar.d, unfortunately extended to the rural oistrict. The borough suffered from a water famine tut Bummer, and obtained a pupply of water from the rural district, and within the last month the supply in the merit& had been very low indeed, mach lower than the Corporation would have liked th, publio to know. Mr Wm. Williams : Low, but not very low. The Chairman, continning,esid the Corporation were unable to give the public a bdtar water supply than they Gould, and u lighting they mild do this just to cheaply as theCorporstion either by gas or electricity from the works in the districts. As to sewers tbeCorp ,ration prop-sed to extend sewers to a district which did not require them, as the district was already sere. d with the dry earth system. Tho only r,ason for the Co,poraton going to Par. dimwit was to gain powers which tiny did not now possess. The Expellee of opposing the 03rpora01on woull lr great, but in order to lessen the expense he (the chairman) wail prepared to off r his servioes to appear in prsor. and oppose on behalf of the authority, be ha. omielderable experienee in Parliamentary work and offered his services grade. (liner, hear.) Mr Win. Themes (Lan) said that Mr Dill wyn was the beet sanitarian he bad ever met, and though Alderman Freeman was an able man he eonsidered their chairman, Mr Dillwyn, h superior in ability. He considered that Mr Freeman had made a horrible mistake in his estimates. In the o: uree of further remarks, , Mr Thomas referred to the council oounoile,and said that no doubt many unworthy men wool be elected on them. Mr LI. Devi. a adduced a stitcher of statisties which showed that tbo Corporation by the proposed extension would receive £7,718, and pay out £8,409 or .61,219 leu,and tbis added to the emount from LlaneemletLower £822,w0n10 enable thnn to pocket no lees than £1,851 annually, sod wh n they went into the outivieg distr lets at Trelxith, end sew how the Corp wation dealt with what they had now, they would fiud that they gave the Inhabitants neither water tor light. . _ _  The report was Passed, and the offer of 0.chairman's sonic** to oppose the Oqrporation Dal was accopteL It was also decided to al point • parliamentary agent. This was all the hu.in•as of imoortanoe.  ha stated ual i, ISWiitLey- iU ooufeet Llenelly in the Liberal teuireet ter •seat ou the Carosartheuntire County Council. The Waterld, crks. Aherearn, have Lees purchased by Mr P. 8. Felipe, of Abertillery and will shortly be restarted. A landeap, etmiler to that which occurred in dwansea hOMO time ago, has been en:evince at Pentre, Rhondda. . _  An &bit; lectors on We!sb Kb Lore was (1.hvered at the Victoria hetitute, Aberavon Thursday evening, by Mr E. 8. Bart F.S.A., of Swansea.  A viMal, auppoeed to ba an Amstriaa, aehore on Oen Sidan Bands. The orew, fourteen in number, are saved,& d are now sI Towyn firm Ponibrey. A man named Therese Evers, eh years ot A hes ctermitted suicide by hinging at Liar winos, Cardiganshire. Ati iota at Ilowdel, M.P., has been else, d ' chairman of the Welsh Liberal Ifembi,.. Committee._  On Saturday morning, JeMO COIN, • ii i e of Aberdare, committed au.nde at Clare-street, Elvers:lde, Cardiff, where she was employed a. a domestic servant, by taking carbolic said. The funeral of the late Principal Howells of Treveoca will take place to-morrow (Twesday), and will be striotly private. On Saturday, while on hi. way to Llanded, P.O. IMMO, a-ratio ,ed at Whitehursh, reamed a boy from drowning who had fallen into di, river dose by Cardiff Mills. On Saturday morning one of 11.11's. wart guards stationed at Newport, Pembrokeabito named William Godfrey, was drowned whilst rowing from Owmreglwas to Newport. It is statod that the pimento of the young m n Griffith., whom we reported missing from Trc door, bare reeedeael a letter I run Lim stating that be has shipped from Odesea. On Saturday, at Monmouth Police Court, Goose* Cutilo,kO, journeyman baker, was corntrotted to the arises charged with steeling three sacka of flour, the property of his employer. A young man named Arbor Griffith,, Glyn terrace, Tradegar, has myetericualy disappeartd law* no traoe of his whereabouts. He i• about 21 pare of age, with a slight moustache, aad light oomplexion. His height ia stout I feet 6 inebes.  On Thursday afternoon Kr R. A. Bosangest, of Monmouth, warn married an lit Jude's Umiak South Rassingtoo, to Kill Ruth Riven Thompson. oldest daughter of Sir Rivers Thcsini. lata Lieut.-Governor of Ben On turday if Loom, at • mestiagtd at Chamarthsa it was ditekled to present a MM. maga! to Mr. W. R. H. Powell, /CP., Ls nacigaition of his lsytag hunted the ovaatry tor 60 years. nous efforts are befog made to arfardnfor the widow And family of Cl= Bay. Peary Sawa, the popular Welsh Lula. preacher aad Leotaxer..Aboai 1200 has be aabsarihed.  , Ipendent already