The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-06-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MARRIAGE.  June 3rd, at Chrit4 church, Swansea, by the Vicar—Arthur Nichols, cabinet maker, Swansea to Maria Anne, daughter of the late John Rees, manager, Lime Hy.  Consols were one-sixteenth lower on Tuesday 1110111ing.  _ The Prince and Princess of Wales will visit Leeds on July the 14th, Vith and 16th, to open the new building of the YOrlfshire College. The India' troopship Crocodile was on Tuesday morning ordered to be prepared for SM.  H.M.S. Valorous left Portsmouth on Tuesday morning with seamen and gunners for the armed cruiser Oregon, at Liverpool.  The Festival Dinner of the Cabdrivers' Benevolent Association will be held at Wills's Rooms, on the 27th inst. The Duke of Westminster has accepted the poeitiot of President of the East London Union lor Advanced Education. At Wolverhampton, Charles Samuel Rao, an optican, has been sent to prison for five months for obtaining goods by fal..e pretences. James Patesson, a crofter cragsman, has fallen from a rock in Faula, Shetland, and been titled. He was bird-nesting when the accident occurred.  The necessary works for the construction of the Metropolitan Railway's extension from Harrow and Pinner to Rickmansworth have now commenced in earnest.  The Nottingham Corperation bag decided to purchase unhealthy property in the centre of the town at a cost of £141,000, and to erect a hospital on the spot at a cost of £20,000. Senora Pillar de la Mora, the accomplished young Spani.li pianiste, has arrived in this country, and purposes giving concerts in London.  Females won this year all the prizes given at the University of Mississtpi, whi(h only a comparatively short time ago opened its doors to the gentler sex. The Emperor of Austria has purehased for Isis own museum the magnificent sollection of coins 9nd medals of the Emperor Probus which belonged to the late Dr Missong. It is said to be the most complete collection of that reign. Mr Evelyn Ashley, the Colonial Under Secretary, speaking at .Shanklln on Tuesday,  expressed a belief in the efficacy of vaccination, but oppased the compulsory principle. On Tipsdiy morning the head quarters and a squadron of the 29th Hussars left Aldershot for Portsmouth to embark for Alexandria in the Oregon.  The Rev. Mr. W. White, Protestant clergyman, residing near Besh, County Fermanagh, committed suicide on Tuesday morning by drowning himself in a tank. A serious charge was pending against hint Mr Gower, of the United Service Institution, made a successful balloon ascent from Hythe on Wednesday. Mr Dale, professional neronant, and Caphin Late, cf the School of Musketry, accompanied Wm. . . -  The Queen has approled of the appointment of Coloml Sr W. U. Lanyon as Colonel on the Staff in Egypt: Colonel Freemantle to command the Eleventh Regimental District; LieutenantColoml Lloyd, ball-pay, as Assistant Adjutant and Quarterreostet-Gmeral in Egypt  At Manche-1 er on Tuesday fifty-eight persons, arrested in the recent raid on betting clubs, were charged with infringing the Act. It was stated that the clubs were larweirused by young men, errand boys, and wanen. The first case taken was against the PalatiLe Club. One defendant was fined £25, and another 81/111010128 was withdrawn.  Ou Tuesday morning, about 5 a.m., a roan named John Collins was found dead in his bed at 15, Quarry-street, Swansea. He was noticed by u person named Thomas Matthews, who was the last person who saw him alive at about half past ten on the previ,us evening. Deceased was 45 years of age. An inquest will be held at the Clamorgan Arms, High-street.  VlPs's