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NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ABOUT NELSON HEWERTON

STAR OF GWENT - 31 JANURY 1874 - MARRIGE OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH On the occasion of the marriage of the H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh with Princess Marie of Russia on Friday last, the Mayor of Newport, Nelson Hewertson Esq gave another illustration of his liberality by causing to be distributed to over 5000 Sunday School children of all sects in the Borough, a bun and an orange each, in celebration of the auspicious event. An address was presented to his Worship signed by some of the scholars on behalf of about 200 who attended the Pill Roman Catholic School, cordially thanking him for his great kindness towards them. he front of the Town Hall was illuminated as was also the Westgate, and one or two other places in the town.

STAR OF GWENT - 7 FEBRUARY, 1874 - ELECTION RIOTING AT NEWPORT On Polling day there was a repetition of those discraceful scenes which seem to be indigenous to a General Election at Newport. The roughts, who like rats come out of their holes in periods of popular excitement, appeared on the scene in vast numbers, to smash the windows of unoffending tradesmen, and do other work of destruction as senseless as it was mischievous and wicked. These ruffians have in reality no connection with either political party - they work unon their own hook, giving vent to their savage passion indiscriminately, and some of them taking the chances of plunder. The Mayor in his efforts to arrest the arm of a fellow who was throwing a stone through a window of the Town Hall, was surrounded by the mob, knocked about, and illtreated; extracting himself from the crowd, His Worship found that he had been robbed of a valuable gold chronometer watch and chain. He was energetically assisted by Mr Wyndham Jones, Mr John Clarke, Dr Morgan and other gentlemen who did all they could to induce the mob to disperse peacefully; but finding that "moral suasion" had no effect on the hardened natures of those they had to deal with, the military was called out; and the mob always as cowardly as cruel was swept away likt chaff before the wind at the very first sight of fixed bayonets. The police patrolled the streets, and the soldiers remained, some at the Town Hall and some at the King's Read. There was no further necessity for their services.

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