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APPOINTMENTS FOR THE WEEK

... Petty Sessions, Pontypool (alehouse licellses) Sat., July 21 Lectures (see advt.J—Providence Chapel, Sun Crane-st., County Court-Newport, Mon. t$- Tues; Cardiff, Wed. Sf Th ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1860
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 27 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

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... LAND FOR RULE PRACTICE.—The following is the chief clause of the new act for facilitating the ac- quisition by rifle volunteer corps of grounds for rifle practice :— Any rifle volunteer corps may purchase or acquire by such grants as are hereinafter mentioned any land for rifle praotice, and for the erection of butts ana other accommodations for the use of the corps when practising with ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1860
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2750 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

VERY SINGULAR THINGS IN THE CITY OF LONDON.

... It is a singular thing that all the working & neers and stout-armed '^navigators who planned, and aut, and built up the Great Northern Railway, were compelled, before they commenced their labours, tø. wait for the oath of one man, who happened ta be William Jaaa«8 Robson, th» future forger. Theoots- puliory powers of a railway act cannot be put in fOrtJfI, nod the H t sod of a railway ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1860
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1617 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

COUNTY COURT

... TUESDAY—Before J. M. HERBERT, Esq., Judge. There was a good deal of business before the court to-day, but the cases were hardly any of them of a nature calculated to interest the public, the vast majority being claims for beer scores. rril- lei 0 nf tho lUb 10 Adjourned causes 5 Be-isjued 1 New 266 Judgment Summonses 5 Total 277 Struck off 64 Total 213 Alsopp v. Jeffries, This is for pa/e ale, ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3715 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

. llUfaapirliian Gossip,

... llUfaapirliian Gossip, BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. rrhe remarks under this head are to be regarded as the ex- pression of independent opinion, from the pen of a gentleman In wh0m we have the greatest confidence, but for which we nevertheless do not hold ourselves responsible.] As we approach the period for the General Election, which will be a thing of the past in about another month, the ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1868
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1987 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST A RESPECTABLE FEMALE

... At the Surrey Sepsi ns, Charles Jenkins, foreman to a building firm in London, and Emily Jenkins, his wife, for some time occupying Ku. 5, Camberwell New- road, were indicted for stealing a table cover, the pro- perty of Anne Roberts and four yards of carpet and other property belonging to Mary Stuckey. It appeared that both the prosecutors occupied un- furnished apartments in the prisoners' ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1868
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... engaged for some time in investigating a most remarkable charge of conspiracy to obtain money under false pretences. Hie accused were two Germans, named Victor and Fordon, and it would appear that Victor went to the Prussian Em- bassy and offered for a certain sum to reveal the particulars of a plot to assassinate the King of Prussia. The person who was to do this atrocious deed was a ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1868
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

ITREMENDOUS GALE IN SCOTLAND

... TREMENDOUS GALE IN SCOTLAND. (From the Scotsman of January 25.) Edinburgh, and indeed a great part of Scotland, was visited yesterday (Friday) by a hurricane that has resulted in melancholy loss of life, in the destruction of much pro- perty, and in a series of accidents which rarely, if ever, have aceompanied a gale of wind in this country. The gale came on suddenly, and almost the only sign ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1868
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1380 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... Leave well alone. We do not get Tea re- latively so cheap and good as this in England, said a British visitant whilst quaffing the pure infusion in a Mandarin's verandah.— No, replied the Chinese merchant, we piake you up sorts pretty to look at, then ioreign mer- chant much pleased. 2vow, this is a fact, for the colouring of the leaf for English supply is done to enable the Chinese Tea ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1868
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

NEWS FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY

... For the trifling sum of one penny, the rich can have each morning's cun ent news at their breakfast-table, the merchant can learn the fluctuatiolls of the markets, the politician can weigh the probable turn of events. and the artisan can be -iflformed nIl the most important topics of the day; hut as few people have an i.le::t. of the trouble, care, and anxiety consequent upon the publication ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1868
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1880 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... Luxuriant and Beautiful Hair is tho di.stiii ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1868
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 654 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News