MILK—AND WATER

... I A £ 20 Fine. The Wolverhampton stipendiary to-day fined a Widow named Clarke £20 and costs for selling milk adulterated with 16 per cent. of water. This was her third conviction. ...

Published: Friday 03 May 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 33 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

SUICIDE OF A SURGEON

... Mr Arthur O'Brien. Jones, surgeon to tha metropolitan police (Epsom division), has been found dead in his bed with a phial of prussic acid by his side. Ic is reported that he left a written statement explaining bis reasons for committing suicide. Mr Jones was 76 years of age. ...

Published: Friday 03 May 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

AN ADDITION TO THE 1 GLAMORGAN MAGISTRACY.I

... AN ADDITION TO THE GLAMORGAN MAGISTRACY. Mr William Merchant, manager of the Pontypridd branch of the National Bank of Wales, has been placed on the commission of the peace for the county of Glamorgan. The appointment has created great satisfaction in Pontypridd and district, where the new magistrate is popular with all classes. ...

Published: Wednesday 27 February 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

--- THE BOAT RACE

... THE BOAT RACE. The Cambridge University crew bad a couple Oxford* ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 24 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Affairs in the Soudan, j -.-I

... Affairs in the Soudan, j I THE SITUATION CRITICAL. Despatch of British Troops. I llUJ:l:TEI(;> TEL¡';GRAlS.1 CAlliO, loursday.—B%giana,near Abou Simbel, is now held by two black battalions, supported by another battaliun ou the island. Deserters from the Dervish force state that El Njumi ha|| heard of the advance of tile British troops. The First Battalion Horsofc Regiment, now at Malta, and ...

Published: Friday 12 July 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 313 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

BURNING A WIFE'S CHEEK WITH A HOT IRON.I

... BURNING A WIFE'S CHEEK WITH A HOT IRON. A Cardiff Husband's Protest Against Ironing Clothes at Tea-time- At the Cardiff poiice-court this inorttl;iig-beft)re Mr T. W. Lewis nnd Dr Taylor— Geotge Brown (47), of 3Z, Tressilian.terrace, was charged on a warrant by Inspector Heywood with assaulting his wife, Mary Blown, Oil the 21st instant. Mr J. H. Jones defonded. )1r Brown said the prisoner ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 305 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE LADIES QUARREL IN NEWPORT COURT

... 'This morning the Newport magistraw had before them a case in which two women named Bridget Mainey and Margaret Smith were summoned for being disorderly in Dock-parade. /A young officer, hurrying up to the sounds of crockery flying, spoke to the behaviour of the women, and said one afterwards paraded the streets with au effigy or image in her arms. Standing side by side on the defendants' ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

The Man About Town. I

... The Barry Dock directors have not moved a moment too soon in asking their share- holders to use all their powers of persuasion on their Parliamentary representatives in support of the Bill which comes to its crisis on Tuesday next. From a private source of information I learn that the respon- sible representatives of the company are not at all afraid of the sudden and in- siduous opposition ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1788 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

IMEETING OF COLLIERS AT I 'BEDWAS

... MEETING OF COLLIERS AT BEDWAS. Yesterday morning a meeting of colliers (a section of the Caerphilly Miners' Association) was held on the Nursery Grounds, BedWas, and was presided ever by Mr John Jamas. Those present discussed several minor disputes, and decided to refer the grievances to the management committee. The necessity of making weekly payments a subject of legislation was discused at ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1889
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News