The Herald of Wales. — 1890-06-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MOMS. J. 0. M. Gunn, Cardiff, £125 Mos Mr. E. R. Mosey, .nd £lOO from Mr. H. J. Evans, Breeen Old Jr.,Bank. That the Nantgarw folk are determined to put up with the inconvenience of creasing the River-Taff at Yoystcau no longer, and for the purpose of remedying the undesirable Mate of affairs a meeting has been held to consider the advisability of erecting a bridge. That the Cardiff stipendiary has reserved his judgment in the case of the New rredeger Club, I Iftr&ff. It was coitmded by the pollee that the club was a ,bogus one, but three Cr four witnemes were milled and swore to having paid , their subscriptions. Judgmeat will be given next Friday week. That the Queen has teen pleased to direct letters patent to he passed under the Great Beal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for appointing Robert Geo. Baron Windsor, to be Ccatos Rotulernm of the County of Glamorgan, in the room of Christopherson Rico Mensal ' Talbot, Esq., deceased. That Mr. Lewis Williams had before ben a ease of attempted suicide on Thursday, at Penarth. The prisoner, Michael Collins, an Irish sailor, had jumped into Barry Doak and tried to drown himself, but was prevented by a policemen to whom he said be would rather "finish himself than return to the boarding house." He was remanded till Monday. That the Cardiff Stipendiary en Monday fined Captain Hall, of the steamship Ithydal Hall, of Liverpool, the maximum penalty of £lOO and costs, or three month., for overloading his vowel at Barry. The Stipendiary said be was inclined to think that overloading in South Welsh ports was a:common practice, which, if oontiumsd, miustW disaatrooa to life and property. That the rumours current as to the propoged abandonment of the scheme for the oonstruotion of the Vale of Glaniorgen railway are quite without foundation. In the course of • few days a proaretua will be published, offering for subscription 36,000 ordinary !shares of £lO each ia the econpatiy. The Hallway Share ' Trust and Agency Company (Limited) have been entrustad with the issue of this capital.  Thst on Thursday morning a woman, named Sarah Chadwick, 26 years of age, was taken into custody, at Cardiff, Lir being drunk and disorderly. While in the cell she Lad an epileptic fit, but recovered and was removed to the workhouse. That night, however, she had Is second fit of the same natnre, which resulted , us her death.  • That on Friday Sir James Ilannen had before ' him, in the Divorce Oonrt, the application of Thomas Edward de Fargo, master mariner, of Cardiff, who asked to be divorced from hi, wife, , because of heradultery with two co-respondents, ' William 0. Evans, and James Nolan. These ' two men were put into the box, and swore that ' they had committed adultery with Mrs. de Fargo, whereupon the judge granted a decree nisi for the diaao'ntion of the marriage. , . .  That in the case nmorted in our'eeltnins a few days ago, wlitavain a volunteer in the SubMarina Engineer Corps of Cardiff, named Henry Robert Banes) was charged with fsihng to acquire efficiency, thus losing his corps the capitation grant, the Stipendiary on Friday inflicted a penalty of fit and eosts. In default of peroent, a distress warrant will be issued, and 'Laid there be no isffeete, Mr. Eanto will be excluded from the society of his frteuds for one Wender month.  That at the Cardiff Court, on Friday, Captain Jenkins was summoned for over-loading his ' steamship, the Rydai .Hall, of Liverpool. An officer of the Mercantile Marino, at Dam', said , that when on board just before the vweW oaiied ' for Bombay, ho noticed that the discs were submerged. He called the attention of the captain to the fact, and upon the raasaarcment being taken, :R was found that the disc on the starboard stile was one inch below the surface of the water, and on the port side one inch and a half. IFor the defence it wan urged thvt when the vessel had been brought out into the malt water, the higher specific j,rvanity of the bitter would have brought the °entre of the disc above water. That two young men, named Hy. Inkin, aged 26, and Joseph Holley. 22, were on Monday afternoon engaged in ,blasting operations in the Alps Quarry, Wenvoe, when a charge they were ramming premature/3' exploded, with such force that both sustained terrible injures about the face and upper part of the body. Inkin's injuriei are eepeolally severe, and it is probable that he will totally lone the sight of one eye. Both men were at once removed to the Canliff Infirmary, where they lie in a critical state ut.der the care of Dr. Thema., the house surgeon. It will be some time before either will , be able to leave the institution. That in the Howe of Contnions on Monday night, Mr. Alfred Thecae, the member fur East Glamorgan, called attention to the passgraph which had appeared in ther,papers as to the great deastisfaction existing amongst rifle volunteers of Cardiff in consequence of the amalgamation of the two detachment', and that the attendance at drill had decreased bemuse of the amalgamation. The Secretary for War, Mr. Slanhope, in reply, said the amalgamaricin referrM to won • regimental arrangement., which would have been carried out much earlier if it had not been for debts on the part of one of the detachments. It had been reported that since the amalgamation the attendance Las improved, and that the strength is greater than before it took effect. That • young man named George Tanis has had • very narrow shave of ranking as a felon at Cardiff. Prisoner, it appears, was in the habit of delivering goods from Messrs. Hopkins and Co., mineral water manufsoturers, and he received money at various 'times from the customers. A book was provided him to give reoaipta, and enter the amount on the counterfoil, but ;this he did not do correctly, and be omitted to pay over the money to his employers at night. Prisoner had previously borne a good character, and the magistrates, in order to give him an opportxmity to retrieve his position, dealt with him under/. the First Offenders' Act, and ordered him to come up for judgment when willed upon. Before prisoner left the court Mr. Lewis Williams gave him a few words of advice, and urged him to try and get back his good character.