Western Mail Saturday May 1st 1926. Thomas COLLINS 17, a local collier boy, preferred a charge of assault against Reginald ROWLANDS, a local police-constable, at Pontlottyn Court on Friday, Mr. John EVANS defended ROWLANDS. COLLINS was charged with using improper language, whilst W.G. DAVIES 19, collier boy, Pontlottyn, was charged with unlawfully purchasing liquor for a person under eighteen years of age. A further charge was preferred against COLLINS for aiding and abetting. Police-constable ROWLANDS said on the night of March 20 he was on duty near the Central Ballroom, Pontlottyn, when he received a complaint from the attendant regarding COLLINS. He advised COLLINS to go home, but he would not do so. Later COLLINS used certain language and gave considerable trouble. Witness said he did not strike COLLINS at all. Police-sergeant THOMAS, giving evidence on the charge against DAVIES and COLLINS, said he saw COLLINS at the Railway Inn, Pontlottyn, with a measure containing beer in front of him. When witness asked him how he had been supplied when he was under eighteen years of age COLLINS first denied that he was only seventeen years of age, but afterwards added that DAVIES had got the drink for him. COLLINS, in the box, said Police-constable ROWLANDS had called him an offensive name at the dance hall and had struck him in the mouth. Mr. John EVANS: You admit you told a lie concerning your age so that you could get a drink?-Yes. The charge against the police officer was dismissed: COLLINS was fined 10s. on each of two charges against him, and DAVIES was fined 20s. Charles EVANS 55, grocer, Nelson, was summoned at Bargoed on Friday on a charge of failing to pay contributions to the National Health Insurance in respect of Mary JONES, a domestic servant. Mr. David EVANS, district inspector for the Miniustry at Cardiff, prosecuted. Mr. John EVANS, Bargoed, defended. Mr. David EVANS said that defendant had rendered himself liable to a fine of £10. Although Miss JONES was related to the defendant, he held that she was in his employ. The mother said that the late Mrs. EVANS was her sister. Mr. John EVANS submitted that Miss JONES was not an employed person within the meaning of the Act, and that, there-fore, the court had no jurisdiction, and that the case should be adjourned until the Minister of Health had given his decision on this point. The Bench adjourned tha case accordingly. James RIVERS 36, described as a sea-faring man, appeared in the dock before the Cardiff stipendiary (Mr. St. John FRANCIS-WILLIAMS) on Friday, charged on a warrant with having taking away a child named Wilfred Peter CLARK, aged four years nine months, with intent to deprive the Cardiff Board of Guardians of possession of such child. Mr. D.E.S. BROWNE, who appeared for the prosecution, called evidence of arrest only, and asked for a remand. Detective-sergeant J. PUGSLEY said he read the warrant to prisoner and cautioned him. Prisoner then said, "I will reserve my defence until my trial." RIVERS was remanded in custody for seven days, an application for bail being refused. Staff-sergeant Horace MORGAN, formerly of Newport (the eldest son of Mr. A.S. MORGAN, who was formerly in business in the town as a builder), was drowned in India whilst bathing, after he had gone to the assistance of a friend seized with cramp. Staff-sergeant MORGAN,who was in the Indian Ordnance Department at Bombay, served during the war as a lieutenant in the Machine-gun Corps, and was wounded at Hill 60, in May, 1915. He was transferred to the Machine-gun Corps from the 1st. Battalion of the Monmouthshire Regiment, which he joined as a private at the outbreak of the war. Mr. J.Leslie GRIFFITHS son of Mr. and Mrs. David GRIFFITHS, Globe Hotel, Aberdare, has passed the final examination of the Auctioneers' Institute. In the Divorce Court on Friday before the President (Lord MERRIVALE), Albert Thomas MARKS, a railway carman, of Sampford Moor, near Wellington, Somerset, petitioned for the dissolution of his marriage on the ground of the alleged misconduct of his wife, Ellen MARKS, whose address was given as Cadoxton/Barry, Glamorgan. The suit was undefended, and a man named Frederick WARREN was cited as corespondent. The case had been adjourned from Wednesday.                     Mrs Annie WAYGOOD, of Bridge-street, Cadoxton/Barry, respondent's sister, said Mrs. MARKS came and lived with her during April, 1924. In July of that year she gave birth to a stillborn child and told her that WARREN was the father. On this evidence Lord MERRIVALE granted the petitioner a decree nisi, with costs. Mary EVANS 32, a domestic servant, living at Lanrhyd, Derwydd-road, Llandebie, was found dead in a bedroom at her home on Friday morning, with a wound in her throat. She was home on sick leave. Miss S.M. SWASH, who has retired after sixteen years' service as head-teacher of the Birchgrove Schools, Cardiff, was presented with a number of gifts, including a solid silver platter, by past and present pupils of the school. Wanted Farm Hand, able to milk, sober; references.- PHILLIPS, Caerosser, Black Mill. Further proof of the high esteem in which Mr. Edward LOWTHER, O.B.E., who will relinquish the appointment of chief docks manager of the Great Western Railway, Cardiff, at the end of the month, is held was provided on Friday, when he was made recipient of a gift from the dockmasters of the Bristol Channel. The presentation was made by Captain Humphrey JONES, of Port Talbot, who paid a high tribute to Mr. LOWTHER'S sterling character and business capacity, and expressed the keen sense of loss which the dockmasters would feel by his retirement. Further testimony was added by Capt. W.E. PRITCHARD, (Cardiff), and Capt. CUDLIFFE (Newport). Mr. LOWTHER expressed his warmest appreciation of the loyal and helpful services he had always received from the dockmasters of the Bristol Channel. John Patrick