... THE CASE OF HUGH JONES, VEGLA VACH. The CLERK drew the attention of the Board to the escape of this lunatic from the Union Workhouse on Mon- day last. The master was called in to give an explanation of the matter.—The guardians were generally of opinion ...

... Lunatic Asylum, 285 15s; poor rates of workhouse 10s. 3d. Messrs Jones and Williams, drapers Four Crosses, £9 6s. 8d. Mr John Ellis, draper, 15s 3d. Mr W. Jones, ironmonger, for iron bedsteads for the workhouse, JBlO ioo-l .fairies, £ 4 12s. 5d. Balance ...

... CREED REGISTER IN WORKHOUSES.—Last week a gene- ral order issued by the Poor Law Board to the several Boards of Guardians came into operation, prescribing that a creed register shall be kept in all workhouses. By it the workhouse master, or in the event ...

... assent to the arrangement under which it is pro- posed to allow the child of the master of the Dolgelley Union Workhouse to reside in the workhouse, on condition that a payment of Is. 6d. per week is made to the guardians in respect of its maintenance. The ...

... interest in the religious and secular instruction of the children. CHRISTMAS TREAT AT THE WORKHOUSE.—On Christ- mas Day the paupers of the Festiniog Union in the Workhouse, situated Dear to the village of Penrhyn- deudraeth, were treated to a sumptuous dinner ...

... during the last fort- night, 41. Number during the corresponding period of last year, 32. Number of vagrants relieved at the workhouse during the last fortnight, 81. Number relieved during the cor- responding period last year, 78. ...

... was missing on the 6th instant, and in the course of the evening P.C. Pearson, paying a visit to the tramps' ward at the workhouse, found it in the prisoner's possession. Prisoner admitted the appropriation* and was sent for trial at the assizes. ...

... as caterers. ADJOURNED INQUEST.—The adjourned inquest upon the body of George Thomas, who suddenly died at the Cor- wen Workhouse, early this month, was resumed on Mon- day last, before William Williams, Esq., deputy coroner, and the same jurymen. Dr ...

... CLOTHES.—On Tuesday last a tramp named John Lawlon was brought before C. F. Thruston, Esq., and charged by the master of the workhouse with having torn his clothes in the vagrant ward of the house on the previous night. He was sentenced to one month's im- ...

... erected by Mr David Williams. Mr William Jones had a very neat ornamental structure of the same kind near the Festiniog Workhouse; and at the entrance to the village of Penrhyndeudraeth there was another pretty arch, the work of Mr Evan Evans. Flags were ...

... laugh.)—The CHAIRMAN: We shall have to get a mistress of the ceremonies before long.—Mr GRIFFITHS: We shall be having the workhouse turned into a play-house.—The CHAIRMAN I think the plainer and simpler the things they wear, the better. (Hear, hear.)—Mr ...

... hopelessness of finding him, and she was taken to the Marylehone Workhouse. Mr Tubbs, the relieving overseer, took her before the magistrate and obtained an order for her conveyance to the workhouse of her native place, but this could not be acted upon at once ...