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... FIRE.-Oll Wednesday, the 23rd, a large quantity of oats in the straw, that were stacked in a barn, were set fire to, it is supposed, by some children, at Aber- gynolwyn, near Towyn, and in an incredibly short space of time the whole was destroyed, and nothing but the bare walls of the barn and smouldering ruins were to be seen. The oats belonged to T. H. M'Con- nell, Esq. It is surmised, says. ...

... CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS COMPANY. The ninth ordinary half-yearly meeting of this ermpany Was held at the oiffces, Oswestry, on Tuesday, the 29th inst., and also an extraordinary meeting to elect arbitrators, under the recent Act, and two directors for the Coast. The chair- man of the company, Earl Vane, presided, and there were also present Mr J. Bancroft (deputy chairman), Mr H. Gartside, Mr J. W. ...

... Births, Ma. 23rd, Mrs Remfry, of Cloe of a son. 25th ult., the wife of Mr W. v, Portland-street, Aberystwith, of a dangh. KZa-rriages. 23rd ult., at Shiloh Chapel, North Par Rev. D. Charles, B.A., secretary of the Univ- College of Wales, Mr W. T. William., Svdenh, House, Aberystwith, to Hannah, second daughter (h D. Jones, Esq., manager of the Na jnal Provi-ickf Bank, Aberystwith. 25th of Aug. ...

... A SHROPSHIRE CLERGYMAN ON THE IRISH CHURCH. The following letter, headed Freedom for the Irish Church, appeared in last week's Guardian Sir,-It is plain we shall have to fight hard for this. Many quiet Churchmen, who have been unable to join in the howl against Mr Gadstone, believing in his honestyaun. in his grasp of the Church's true spiritual character, and who have refrained from signing ...

... PaUmtcaL TT'i'jc.n Pn'tti. t'f new n-wtary treiand, has arrivtm ± lJuoiifi. A warm contest is expected at Droitwicb, where Sir John Pakington is opposed by Mr Corbett. A contest has not taken place here isr a quarter of a century. Sir A. Fairbairn, Mayor of Leeds, has resigned that office, and come forward to contest the borough. He is the third Liberal candidate. Mr Cole, Q.C., has-cet a ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT AT A COAL PIT. ELEVEN MEN KILLED AND FOURTEEN INJURED. On Wednesday morning last an accident of a most serious character and attended with fatal results occurred at the Green Pit, Ruabon. The pit belongs to the New British Iron Company, and is one of the largest and most extensive workings in the neighbour- hood. The works adjoin the Great Western Railway from Shrewsbury to ...

... DENBIGHSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The first prize for main ploughing at Wrexham, last week, was awarded to William Jones, servant at Irs Jones's of Hafod, near this town. The plough was of the making of Mr John Owen, smith, Llandri -o.twho has on a great many occasions been successful at the ploughing matches. In these facts we have o-oof of the utility of our local ploughing matches, and ...

... The Bombay mail arrived on Saturday, bringing ad- vices to the 1st. Most of the News has been anticipa- ted by telegraph. The Indian papers give accounts of an extraordinary fl )od which has been experienced iu the north of India-in Ghurwal-owing to the over- flowing of the Aluknanda and Berai rivers. In Ahmedabad alone, ten thousand houses are computed to have been destroyed, involving a loss ...

... TFE PARISH CHURCH. Harvest thanksgiving services were held at the parish church on Friday week. The Rev. H. Trevor Owen, of Ruabon, preached in the naorning, and the Rev. En. Rhys James, the vicar, delivered a Welsh sermon in the evening. Collections were scade at both cervices towards providing hymn and tana books for both the Welsh and English choirs. LOCAL BOARD, October lst.-Present: RJV. ...

... CAUSE OF THE JULY HEAT.—The Scientjic Review names as t::e causes hitherto alleged for the heat of July the eruption of Vesuvius, the earthquakes Jn the Sandwich Islands, the approach of the Gulf Stream, the shooting stars of November, and the return of the troops from Abyssinia. We may add, the political caloric disengaged by the attack on the Irish Church but, in truth, though that attack ...

... Accidents and Offences. A Jew tailor at Leeds has been fined for keeping his workpeople employed on Sunday. A boy sixteen, apprenticed to a gilder in Paris, hung himself with his waist-belt in the water-closet a few nights back. He objected to run errands. On Friday night a pilot cutter was run down in the Channel, by the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Syria. The cutter sank immediately, and ...