The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1889-08-30 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

GENERAL NEWS.  The command of the Chester Regimental District btu been bestowed on Colonel William Vesey Brownie,' half*PaY' jun Hugh Watt, M.P., has sailed for the West bates, aud will be absent from England for never-al amulto• The Queen has Leen pleased to approve of Mr. F. Grumel as consul at Manchester for the united States of America. The Queen sent on Saturday four of the Prince Cousort's breed of white pigs from the Royal farm, windsor, to the Grand Duke Hesse of Darmstadt. It has beeu arranged that the Duke of Connaught all return to Eaglatil in March next. Ile will usvel via China, Japan, and Canada'. A severe thunderstorm, accompanied by heavy mitt, passed over Loudon about four o'clock one bouulay afternoon. The Holbeach (Lines.) Local Board have decided to wept a teuder for the lighting of the public streets of liolbeach during the ensuing winter with oil laisPl3. lt is proposed to form a defensive union of the occlesiaetical authorities in every diocese in Wales, ore of the objects of which will be the collection of tithe rent-charge iii arre tr. Mr. William Neligau, one of the principal solicitors a lieiry, died. on Saturday at Tralse, from the eueots of a gunshot wound received while wild-fowl shooting at iiillaruey. pr. O'Farrell, specially commissioned by the Dash Prison Board, on Sunday visited Derry Gliol where Mr. Cony beare is couttued, and investigated sanitary condition. Cousiderable damage has been caused at Buenos Ayres by a hurricane. Many lighters were sunk, two British steamers were slightly damaged by collision, and Catidinas Mole was badly damaged. The strike of Dublin bricklayers was settled on Saturday, by arbitration' Archbishop Walsh being the umpire. Work is to be resumed at 3ris. a week, the award as to winter wages to be made in Cotobor. The French military authorities at Oran, Algiers, have arrested a man named John Laughttud, who states that he is Count Cousten,on suspicion of being a (lemma spy. The steam tug Pioneer, of Teignmouth, was sunk in the river reign on Saturday. It is supposed that owe malicious persona had boarded her and opened &valve, whereby she tilled. A diver is going to try and raise her. A fouudryman, named Hackle, who a few weeks Igo lost his loot by au accident at a local ironwLrks, sud in consequence became depressed iu spirits, has cumulated suicide at lieuipstown, near Bedford, by outtuig his throat with a razor. The President of the Parnell Commission is enjoying the wild beauties of Dartmoor. The house which be has rented. for the Limit Vacation is some utiles from Ashburton Station. Mr. Justice Stephen is about to issue a new edition au the " General View of the, Criminal Law in Englaud," and it would be doubly interesting in the light of the agitation for a Court of Criminal Appeal, • mid the codification. At the Hospital for Incurables at Lovendeghem, rear Ghent, a patient has become mad. He killed with a razor two patients and the Lady Superior, and wounded twenty-seven patients, two of them mortally.  At Lofedden, Norway, a cod weighing fully 681 b., fa measuring oft. 4in., has been caught. The exact figures published are 31 ki I ogrannues and 1.U2