Bridgend & Neath Chronicle, and County of Glamorgan Advertiser. — 1892-12-30 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE BRIDGEND AND NEATH CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1892.  Labour members waited upon the _Local Government Board to urge upon that body the'becessity of providing work for the unemployed. A deputation was received on the succeedinc: day by the Mid-tar of Agricu!ture concerning the, importation of Canadian cattle. The sth saw the First meeting in Trafalgarsquare under the new regime. A conference of Free Church representatives opened at Manchester on the 7th, and the same date witnessed the commencement of a look-out of serious proportions in the cotton industry. The Evicted Tenants' Commission—which was suspended after a somewhat hostile reception early in December—held its initial sitting on the 7th November; and the 9th, the occasion of the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London, was marked also by the painfully sudden demise of the Duke of Marlborough. A conference of Nonconformist Unionists was held on the 10th; while on the 12th the Lord Mayor of London dedicated West Wickham-common to the use of the people as an open space for ever. The 14th was the date of observing the Colston Celebration in Bristol; and the London Chamber of Arbitration was inaugurated on the 23rd. Lord Brassey opened the Nautical College at Liverpool on December Ist. A midnight procession of " unemployed " in London was on the Ist broken up by the police. Princess Marie of Edhaburgh launched on the 2nd the Bonaventure at Devorport. The freedom of Liverpool was on the 3rd conferred upon Mr. Gladstone. The Smithfield Club opened its Christmas Fat-Stock Show at Islington on the sth. A.n important National Agricultural Conference took place in London on the 6th and 7th, at which resolutions in favour of protection and of a comprehensive Agricultural Union were adopted. The Royal Academy prizes were distributed on the 10th. A portrait of Mr. Gladstone was presented on the 12th by the Premier's Canadian admirers to the National Liberal Club in London.  to have been insane. Justice Stirling delivered judgment in the Savernake estates case on the 25th.  Four persons were murdered on Nov. Ist at the Police Barracks, Moyvalley, by Constable Pilkington, who afterwards committed suicide. Ia the case of Leader v. Sm) th, Justice Day heavily fined the editor and publisher of the Morning for contewpt of Court. On the 2nd an appalling railway collision and fire occurred near Thirsk, 10 passengers by the Scotch express being killed and H injured. Mrs. Leader recovered from Mrs. Smyth 500 damages in the jewel slander case en the 4th. A verdict against the Law Times, damages one farthing, was given for libel respecting certain Chancery proceedings on the 10th; and a conviction against London tradesmen for selling French oys'ers durisg the close season was quashed on azipeal on the following day. A double murder wa3 perpetrated on the 14th on Dartmoor, and on the Ith Neil Cream was hanged at Newgate. The gunboat Trent went ashore on the 16th off the Isle of 1-rain. Cooper was sentenced at Douglas on the 21st to 10 years' pgnal servitude for the manslaughter of his wife ; and Mrs. Rourke on the same date lost her jactitation suit in London. A destructive fire occurred at the London Docks on the 26th. An appeal brought by the man Francois, arrested in London for extradition on a charge of complicity in outrages in Paris, was dismissed on December Ist. Signalman Holmes was tried at York Assizes for manslaughter in connection with the railway catastrophe near Thirsk, and ordered to come up for judgment when called upon. Sir H. Tichborne, High Sheriff of Hampshire, was fined on the 6th 500 guineas for neglecting to attend the Winchester Assizes. On the Bth a collision occurred near Child's Hill, on the Midland Railway. On the 9th the Glasgow steamer Dilsberg was wrecked on the Kentish Knock, seven lives being lost.