The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-11-29 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TRIBUTES TO MR FAWCETT'S MEMORY.  At a meeting of the committee of the Commons Preservation Society—Mr. Bryoe, M.P. in the chair— the following resolution was unanimously adopted, on the motion of Lord Mount Temple, seconded by Mr. G. Shaw-Lefevre, M.P.: "That the society desires to put on record its sense of the irreparable loss it has sustained by the death of Mr. Fawcett, who was one of the earliest members, and had constantly given his powerful help to its action. From the beginning of his public life he had taken up the cause of the preservation of commons, and had never ceased to labour for it with unwearied zeal. That Epping Forest and the New Forest have been preserved for the enjoyment of the public is y due to his efforts, which were inspired, not only y his own keen love of nature and natural beauty, but by his sympathetic knowledge of the ne of the poorer classes, and particularly agricultural labourers, and his earnest desire to promote their well-being and happiness. The society has had many occasions to admire and to benefit by the courage, heartiness, and common sense with which be was always reedy in Parliament and elsewhere to forward its objects." At the meeting of the committee of the Proportional Representation Society the following resolution was proposed by Sir John Kennawav, M.P., and seconded by Lord Emly and carried unanimously : " That the committee, at thin, its first meeting after the lamented death of Professor Fawcett, desire& to express its sense of the great lows the society has sustained in one who from the first strongly and heartily supported, in Parliament and out of Parliament, the principles which the society was formed to promote."  The B. G. J. Dupuis, Vice-Provcet of Eton College, died on Saturday. Ho wan, it is said, in his eighty-ninth year. The skiff Flirt, in which four fishermen sailed from Ilowth, has been picked up by the Donaghadee coastguards, with the sides stove in. It contained a raizen-mast and three knivev, but no trace oi the fishermen, who are believed to have been drowned.  AS Mr. Thomas Garland and Mr. James Lord, timber merchant, were driving between Llanfyllin and Llanwddyn, Montgomeryshire, the axletrtm of the trap broke, and they were pitched violently out. Mr. Garland wu so badly injured that he died shortly afterwards. Mr. Lord, was also severely injured. The official report issued on Saturday chews that there has been an increase in the total number ot criminal offences in Ireland in 1883 as compared with 1882 ; that this increase is among the less serious offences (those determined summarily); and that there bad been a material diminution in the more serious offences.  The nomination at Greenock took plane on Saturday. Mr. Thomas Sutherland, Liberal, was nominated by ex-Provost Campbell, and seconded by Mr. John Neill, sugar .refiner. Mr. John Scott, Conservative, was nominated by Mr. Waits'. Grieve, shipowner, and seconded by Mr. Robert Binnie, sugarrefiner. The polling takes place on Wednesday. The Rev. J. H. White, chaplain of the Scilly Islands, has committed suicide by hanging himself to a beam in one of the attics of the parsonage, St. Mary's. Mr. White's wife died suddenly stew months ago, and since that time he has been in a very depressed state of mind, so much so that his friends advised a change. This had been arranged, and he was behave gone in • day or two on along visit to his friends.  It is somewhat remarkable that the increase of the distress from want of employment in the north has been accompanied by a reduction in the annual deathrate. In Newcastle for the week ending November Ist, the average rate only reached 19 in the 1,000. During the same week Sunderland only shewed an average of 20 in the 1,000, while the average dealtrate of Hebburn for the month of ,October wan only 143 per 1,000 per annum.  During a gale the barque Town of Liverpool, bound from Stockholm to West Hartlepool, went ashore at Waxham and became a total wreck. The crew were saved, but the captain had his leg broken. The ketch Arnoldi, of Goole, from Ipewich to Hull, with manure, became • total wreck at Gorlaitou, the crew being saved by the rocket apparatus. The Holyhead police are inquiring into a mischievone and wanton act perpetrated at the local postoffice. A person WOA seen running sway from the letter-box after the office had been closed for the night, and on examination it WWI seen that fire had been flung in among the letters. The postmaster was speedily aroused and means promptly taken to extinguish the flames. Two letters were destroyed and ethers injured,