Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal. — 1895-07-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE FAILURE OF MR. W. S. RICHARDS.  At the Swansea Bankruptcy Court, held at the Guildhall, on Thursday morning, before Mr. Registrar Home, Mr. W. Selwyn Richards, son of Alderman W. Richards, farmer, came up on his adjourned public examination in bankruptcy. Debtor was represented by Mr. C. W. Slater. Examined by Mr. Thomas Thomas, the Official Receiver, debtor said that he held Cefngold Farm from his father. He was not indebted to his father for anything upon the farm. He might have joined his father in bills given to his (debtor's) brother, but he did not pay any money himself on account of those bills. Nor had ho had any money from his father or brother on account of accommodation bills. A sum of £lOO representing a bill of sale upon his household furniture given to Mr. Hinds had gone for bills for goods on the farm. The Official Receiver: When did you first find out you could not pay 20s. in the £ ?—Not until my brother diel. But did you not owe more than you could pay before your brother died ?—I may have, but if I had a good season I should have been able to square up everything barring the accommodation and other bills.  To what extent did your brother's affairs affect you ?—ln reply debtor explained that there was a sum of £5OO due upon accommodation bills, £250 representing a joint account at the Metropolitan Bank, which the late Mr. Glasbrook Richards used all to himself, and £6OO representing the proceeds of a sale given to his brother in 1893.  Coming to the most important matter in this bankruptcy about this declaration you made to the bank, in which you said you were worth after paying all debts £2,255 in November, 1893, you promised to supply some information in explanation of this. Have you any explanation to give ?—That declaration was right, and my statement at the preliminary examination wrong. The stock was on the farm at the time, as my brother brought it there in lieu of money he owed me.  Mr. Slater: There can be no suggestion that the declaration was in order to get money from the bank.  The Official Receiver (to the debtor): What was the object? Was it not to obtain further advances?  Debtor: Not on my behalf. Mr. Slitter: But he didn't get them. _ . _  The Registrar subsequently said he was afraid the statement to the bank was a little misleading, though it was important that it did not produce any effect as far as tho debter was concerned. The examination was conditionally closed.  Diplomatic action by Great Britain with regard to the Armenian question is expected in Constantinople to be resumed shortly. A sailing vessel has been sunk in the new Baltic Ship Canal by collision with a steamer. The traffic on the panel, however, has not been seriously impeded, A gruesome discovery has been made by a passenger in the Paris express train to Corbeille. A postal Aida noticed a paper parcel in a carriage, and on opening it he was shocked to discover a. human head in an advanced stage of decomposition. The police are making inquiries.  A party of five English tourists were on Saturday attempting the ascent ol the Ortler' the highest of the Eastern Alps, when they all fell over a declivity into a deep ravine. Two of the ladies were severely injured, but the others escaped lightly. The Queen has conferred the Victoria Cross upen Surgeon-Captain Whitchurch for conspicuous bravery in the Chitral campaign. A number of officers receiye Ilppeinttnertts tg the o,rder Of the Bath in reeegnltiPn of Or Services, george Dewey, a Camberwell sanitary inspector, who was committed for trial for indecently assaulting a married woman, has committed suicide by throwing himself in front. of a train at Denmark Hill Station. The deceased was mit on bail on his own recoginances of £5O. Lady Parkes, wife of Sir Henry Parkes, has died at Sydney. A medical paper estimates that over fifty thousand pounds worth of medicine is annually distributed gratis at the English dispensaries: Sir Henry Parkes has been badly received at a meeting held at Balmain, a suburb of Sydney. A motion to form a branch of the Federal party was newatiNed amid cheers for Mr Reid.  Seventy-two thousand six hundred acres. c,f forest were burned in the runfauti. fiul:ing the past year, cOmpaTeg iiiqi-'?,§oq i 1a92-93. These kair4 ate, however, an improvement upon the statistics for several previous years, Some of the tops with which the Chines amuse themselves are as large as barrels. it takes three men to spin one, and it gives off a sound that may be heard several hundred yards distant.  Opera goers will be glad to hear that M. Jean De Reszke is not ill. He suffered from some nervous depression, went, on the advice of a physician, to Carlsbad, obtained great benefit, and thence went home. Here the famous tenor has amused liiinself in winning such Derbys and Oaks as the country affords. He will fulfil his American engagement, an. re-appear, all things being equal, next yeF London.  4 distressing case is Tfapcirted from Allegheny, PermsylTania, where a 4rs. Rosener, who had been suffering from illness for years, baying hanged her daughter, Aged three years, in the bedpost, and strangled her baby, then committed suicide by hanging herself. 'The husband was absent at work.  A social gathering of members of the lodges of the Order of Elks was being held at the Casino, in Atlantic City (New Jersey) when the floor collapsed. • Many people were precipitated 25ft. to the basement. A fearful scene of confusion followed. About twelve hundred men, women, and children were heaped in a stru;gling mass around the doors, is 4 i, wai not until assistance arrivod that Vile major portion were extridated from their terrible position. A large number of persons were iniured.