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... Further correspondence appeared in the London journals on Monday morning between the Bishop of Salisbury and his recalcitrant clergy on the subject of his lordship's recent charge. The Bishop, having re- ceived an indignant protest against the doctrines asserted by him, replies that, having asked for a patient and dutiful consideration of his views, he did not expect that they would have been ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM

... An inquiry has been held in London by Dr. Lan- kester at University College Hospital, relative to the death of Florence Lennox, aged nine, while under the influence of chloroform, administered for the purpose of performing an operation on the eye for the cure of squinting. Sarah Lennox, widow of a gardener, of Burling-on-tlie-IIill, Okeham, Rutlandshire, identified the body of her daughter, ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 538 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

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... It will be seen from our Parliamentary intelligence that the Government have decided to recommend her Majesty to commute the sentence upon Burke, the Fenian, whose execution was fixed for last Wednesday, the 29th. Public feeling was being strongly manifested in favour of this step not only in Ireland, but in Lon- don and the provinces. A large annual gathering of Quakers from all parts of the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

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... RITUALISM. The following reply from his Grace the Archbishop of York has been received in answer to a memorial, adopted and numerously signed at a public meeting recently held at Birkenhead, by lay members of the Church of England, to protest against the practices and innovations of the Ritualists :— (Copy.) Bishopthorpe, York, May 15. Gentlemen,—I have to thank you sincerely for the memo- ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Kits. ----

... Kits. LONDON CORN MARKET.—MONDAY. Arrivals last week were unusually small. With a very short supply of wheat this morning, especially from Kent and Essex, factors held at Is. to 2s. more, this being a re- covery of last Monday's decline, though a return to genial weather caused a languid trade. Foreign sold freely, espe- cially Russian sorts, at an improvement of Is., though the market closed ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1867
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2157 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

PONTYPRIDD

... DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT.—This entertainment will come off on Friday week, June Till. Tickets are going rapidly, and a full honse is confidently predicted. HAY.—On Saturday last, the first crop of hay mown this year in this district, was that on the ground in front of the Union Workhouse. HORD'S THEATRE—This theatre continues to be very fairly supported. Several interesting dramas have already ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1867
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1030 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

WENVOE.-

... WENVOE. On Sunday week a funeral sermon on the late Rev. Alfred Jenner, the respected rector of this parish, was preached by the Rev. J. Evans, at this church. The Dying Christian was beautifully sung by the chcir, under the leadership of Mr. T. Richards; and several other suitable anthems. The first treble was sung by the Misses Miller, of the Wenvoe Arms, Jane Williams and Catherine ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1867
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

LOCAL NEWS

... THE TOWN MISSION AXD THE INFIRMARY.—We are requested to sta'e that the Town Mission only applied for permission to see the sick in the Cardiff Infirmary one hour per week, and not every day as stated in our second edition last week. LORD BUTE AT OXFORD.—The Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, has been receiving company last week at the College Lodge. The Bishop of Bangor and family have been ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1867
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 381 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

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... PEKARTH PETTY SESSIONS.—Wm. Kelly, James Heme, and Edward Murphy, were charged, on Monday, with steal- ing a quantity of rope from the J. C. Munro, a ship in the dock, but as the captain had gone to sea the case was dis- missed.—Several persons were summoned and finei for al- lowing cattle to stray on the highway. ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1867
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 57 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

ST. NICHOLAS

... THE CHOIR.—On Friday last, 21th inst., Mr. Owen Davis, the organising master for the Welsh Choral Fes. tival, which is to take place on the 10th of July, in Llan- daff Cathedral, met the choir of St. Nicholas, and went through the musical portion of the service appointed for the day. Mr. Davis expressed himself highly gratified by the very efficient manner in which the choir under the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1867
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

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... HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. A MAN ATTACKED BY AN ELEPHANT.—On Monday an employe of Mrs. Edmunds, named John Sutherland, was attacked by an elephant and almost killed, under the following circumstances —Mrs. Ed- munds was staying at Brierly Hill with a show of wild beasts, amongst which was an elephant that Suther- land added to the collection some fourteen years ago. Since that time he had ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3422 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR NEAR SLIGO

... A most mysterious affair has occurred near the Coastguard station of Sheedagh, within eight or nine miles of Sligo. Early on Saturday morning as Joseph Clarke, one of the coastguards of that station, pro- ceeded towards the beach, he there found two men, named James Nolan, aged twenty-five years, and John Smyth, lying on the sand bank in a helpless condition, both being dangerously injured by ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 462 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News