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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 

A SWANSEA SELL

... SWANSEA SELL. Our friends from Swansea who visited the town on Monday must hare been sold pretty considerably, if they placed any faith in the following handbill, which it appears was extensively circulated in that town be- fore the departure of the excursion THE GLAMORGANSHIRE ODDFELLOWS' EXCURSION. This being the first excursion to Pontvpool, a Grand Demonstration will be made by the ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE RELEASE OF A CONVICTED BANKER

... On Monday a special meeting of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce was held in that town for the purpose of con- sidering whether any and what steps should be taken in con- sequence of the discharge from Leeds County Gaol of Edward Greenland, who had been convicted of making false returns of the paper issue of the Leeds Banking Company. It will be remembered that in January he was tried at the ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 677 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... FIFTH Mox. OR RIFLE CORPS. consetpiencc of the lamented death of Lieut. Steel, Mon., the usual weekly company drill on Tuesday was postponed, as a small tribute of respect to memory of the deceased officer. EXPERIMENTS WITH BIG GUNS.—THE roT;Tl I POOL IRON.-Three shuts were fired from the Amerl; can gun, directed at the face of a target built on t11 Warrior model, only much stronger. The face ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

LOSS OF A SHIP BY FIRE

... News has arrived at Falmouth of the total loss of the ship Queen of the Deep by fire. She left Calcutta in April with a full cargo of cotton and jute for Liver- pool. Or Sunday, June 16, in 34.50 S., and 28 E.. smoke, was found to be issuing from the after-hold, and in such quantities as to show that a large body of the cargo was on fire. The situation was most appalling. as at the time it was ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 241 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

[No title]

... The Sultan has gone, the Viceroy has gone, the hrave Bel- gians have gone. Even the Empress of the French has gone. Iw coming gave the tlâneurs and the loungers in the bay windows something to talk about; a wonder for some few days. They wondered WIY, as the Empress is a bad sailor, she came at alL ieoond wonder, Why iucog. ? Third wonder, Wonder if it means anything? Fourth wonder, Wonoer ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1499 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

PROMOTION FROM THE RANKS

... The following extract from Battalion Orders, which is so highly creditable to all parties concerned, is consolatory as showing that promotion from the ranks is not entirely abolished in the British Army Extract from Battalion Orders, dated Shorncliffe. July 20, 1867. Serjeant Major Talbot, of the battalion, having thia day been promoted to an ensigncy, without pur- chase, in the 2nd West ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

POLICE COURT

... MONDAY. Before 11. Jf. Kennarcl, E1.. THEFT, Hannah Clements, a native of Whitebrook, near Monmouth, was charged with stealing a black straw hat, from the residence of William Brinkwster, besom maker, at Wainyclare, on the 3rd inst. It appeared that prisoner was ill and destitute, and prosecutor had taken her in and allowed her to remain in his house out of compassion, and she had requited ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE RHYMNEY MURDER.~

... THE RHYMNEY MURDER. ADJOURNED INQUEST. TUESDAY.—(Before C. Davies, Esq., Coroner.) David Davies: I went on the 18th of June out by the Dingle. It was after 10 o'clock. When about half way down the Dingle I saw a man and woman coming up from the Swan Inn. They turned down to Rhymney. They were close to one another. I heard the man's voice, but did not understand what he said. I thought the man ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1109 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

CHOLERA IN ITALY. --

... CHOLERA IN ITALY. correspondent, signing himself II. 1. TT. writing from Belhc-iio. Ci'ino, furnishes The. Times with the following information Travellers to the north of Italy are told as they approach the ]lasses of the dreadful ravages that cholera is making in that district. Many turn back others, not bent wholly on pleasure, reluctantly go forward. Perhaps the true state of the case may ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

---The EARLY YEARS of HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS the PRINCE CONSORT

... The EARLY YEARS of HIS ROYAL HIGH- NESS the PRINCE CONSORT. The following are extracts from a book just pub- lished, entitled The Early Years of his Royal High- ness the Prince Consort, compiled under the direction of her Majesty the Queen, by Lieut. -General the Hon. C. Grey. It is not necessary for us to say any- thing to point out the deep interest which must attach to its contents, or ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 5555 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

BALLOON SURVEY OF A PENDING STORM

... Mr. Henry Coxwell, the celebrated aeronaut, sends for publication the following interesting account of a recent Balloon Voj age :— On Thursday evening in last week I ascended from the Crystal Palace and witnessed, during a tour into Berkshire, the peculiar formation of vapour and clouds which ended in one of the most disastrous storms on record. The ascent was by private arrangement, and ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1867
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News