... WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS ?— Mr M. Ennor writes thus to the Mining Journal :-There is nothing strange or mysterious in these occurrences, for as the mines get deep such large spaces are opened that there is a waut of a sufficient current of air to keep pace with them. Large and deep mines will continue to ex- plode, until men will not be found to work in them. If the tide once ...

... ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.—On Monday evening last, while one of our miners was coming from Sirhowy to Beaufort, he was attacked by two men when near one of the Ebbw Vale ponds. The fellows stopped the man by holding a pistol, and threatening to blow his brains out if lie did not deliver up his property. He replied that he had nothing to give them, and at this moment the sound of approaching footsteps ...

... GOOD RUN WITH THE LLANGIBBY HOUNDS. DEAR MR. EDITOR,—I have not had the pleasure of seeing you in the hunting field nor can I call to my recol- lection that I have ever seen you in the pig skin even but knowing your desire to cater for the information and for the amusement of your numerous friends, 1 offer for your publication, a short account of a very good run with these hounds, on Tuesday ...

... TYDEE PF-THESDA BAPTIST CAPEL --On evening, t e 25.h ul> the Rev. !j. D Eiarirds, the muoh ret- peeted minister of the abo»t-n aued chapel d;- ivtred It most telling address on th- ! ...

... THE MANUFACTURE OF WATCHES ANO- A most interesting and instructive cribing briefly, but with great r' ^i 3,111 v progress of watch and clock published by Mr. J. W. « 2S,^Old Bond- atreet, 99, Westbourne ^rove iu the City Steam Factory, 58, and 69, Ludgate Hine bock, which is profusely illustrated, gives a full description 0t the various kinds of clocks, with their prices, and no one Purchase ...

... MEETING OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. The monthly meeting of this body was held on Friday last There' were present—Messrs. E. B. Edwards (chairman), Walter Edwards, Stephen Fletcher, Arnold Beyan, Thomas Roderick, William G. Golding, John Dayies', William Thomas, R. Greenway, and William Conway. Cheques were given for j620 5a. 5d. for bills; and for £ 12 9s. 6d. The minutes of the last ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. If II A. L. will send us his name, his letter shall appear. ...

... ANOTHER CURE OF CONSUMPTIVE COUGH BY DB LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAI'ERS.-Extract of a letter fiom J Mr Thomas Dean, 150, Scotland Road, Liverpool. Gentlemen,—! have great pleasure in communicating sSiT; herself it settled upon her lungs. She was trouoiea t 1. a d eadful cough, and every tion She applied to her medical man, but did not obtain any relief; when, upon the recommendation of a friend s e ...

... ABERDARE. ACCIDENT AT MOUNTAIN ASH.—On Wednesday a poor fellow got one of his legs broken in a pit at Aher- cwmboy through the falling of a mass of coal. The stif- fen r's parents lived at Hirwain whither, he was conveyed on a board (a distance of 8 miles) the fractured bone was set when he arrived at hiE parents' house. SPECIAL DEVOTIONAL MEETINGS were held each even- ing last week in the ...

... SONNET FARE\YELL 1862, WELCOME 1863. WE speed the going guest—the coming hail, With welcome glad The ills endured no more Remembered be than darker ills of yore :— Rejoice with joyous-with the mourneis wail; Love we our neighbours,— nor at railers rail,— Share we with poverty our richer store And having faith the cruise shall never fail, But PROVIDENCE will blessings en our pathway pour. Sing ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT TO Two Bora WHILE SLIDING—A sad and fatal accident occurred at Abernant on Saturday afternoon to two boys, named Matthew Thomas, eight years of age, and lsaao Davies, ten years of age. These boys resided with their parents at Abernant, and on Saturday went upon the ice on one of the ponds near the Vale of fteath Railway to'slide. They were sliding across the pond, when the ice ...

... PJNIYPOOL (Continued fruni the Third Page ) CHILD DROWN KD — Ollie excitement was occasioned amongst a somewhat lar^e number of people who h id assembled at what is termed the Oil Forge Pond, on the afternoon of Tuesday Lst, as it was known that a fine clnld, between two and three years of age, had fillen into the water at that pi ice. It was soon asc rtained. hya man named Samuel Lucas, ...