... ABERTILLERY. TILLERY STEAM COLLIERIES. Incidents occur occa- sionallywhich affect an individual or a community, either for good or evil. Happily for this place, the former in- fluence predominates, and the recommencement of opera- tions at these pits augurs well for its future prosperity. Some weeks ago alterations on a large scale were com- menced and completed at a great expense, ...

... The Tichborne claimant arrived: at Newcastle °n Monday. He was met at the station ftnd many thousands of people- „ and Mr. Whalley, M.P., who accompanied I11™* their way through the crowd. They cntf'ef^fowed che^r nage and drove to the hotel. The crowd •ing. Several persons were slightly injure^'J^ ^fCAr* iriage door broken. In response to the coring -of the poople outside, the claimant ...

... EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.—A meeting of the shop- keepers of this place was held at the Town Hall on Thursday evening last, for the purpose of taking into con- sideration the present hours of closing, and with the view of adopting the half-holiday system enjoyed by the neighbouring towns. The Rev. J. Powell Jones occupied the chair. In opening the proceedings, the rev., chairman spoke of the. ...

... The Bishop of Ripon has been suddenly summoned to Germany by the alarming illness of his son. Sir Edwin Landseer is slowly recovering from his late severe illness. Miss Nelly Grant, the daughter of the Presi- lent of the United States, arrived at Vienna on the 27th. Mr. Hedderwick, editor of the Glasgow Citizen, a at the head of a movement for raising a monument to Burns in Glasgow by shilling ...

... RHYMNEY. BAPTIST MEETINGS.—The quarterly meetings of the Baptist denominat:on of Monmouthshire were held at Penuel chapel, in this place, on Tuesday and Wechiesday last The Conference commenced at 2.30 p.m., wiien a goodly number of ministers from various parts of the county were present on the occasion. Among other im- portant matters deliberated upon, the following resolu- tions were ...

... LLANDAFF. THE FRAIL SISTERHOOD.—At' the weekly Petty Ses- sions on Monday, Messrs. C. W. David (mayor of Cardiff), and H. J. Evans on the bench, Margaret Dawkins was charged with being a prostitute and behaving in a riotous manner at Union-street, Canton, at one o'clock on the morning of Friday, the 19th inst. P.C. 178, proved the charge. Defendant denied the truthfulness of the con- stable's ...

... It is stated that a large number of the agricultural labourers who emigrated to Brazil have petitioned the Emperor to send them home again. They say they have been deceived and badly used. Information has been received of the total loss of the brig Ocean, of North Shields, while on a voyage from Halsingborg to London. The captain and four of the crew were drowned. The Ocean was 248 tons ...

... | FRAUD AND FORGERY. At the Hammersmith William Hemming, an auctioneer, of Stamford-street, Blackfriars. was brought up in the custody of Mr. Palmer, chief inspector, Scotland-vard, charged with obtaining a cheque-book from the Notting-hill branch of the National Bank by false representations, and with uttering several forged cheques. Mr. Elsie Wyatt, accountant at the Notting-hill branch of ...

... MERTHYF. TYDBIL. Mr. Josiah Rees, the revising barrister, sat at the Vestry-rooms, Merthyr, at ten o'clock on Saturday, to revise the lists for Merthyr district, together with those of the parish of Rhigos, which were adjourned from Aberdare owing to the non-attendance of the assistant- overseer, who had not received a notice of the court The Liberals were represented by Mr. T. H Davis Swansea ...

... At the Hammersmith Police-court yesterday, William Betteridge and Mary Ann Nash were charged with a robbery. Mr. Samuel Smith, landlord of the Black Bull public-house, Cilchester-road, Notting-hill, said the prisoner Betteridge was in his employ as potman. Yesterday morning he missed a glass containing be- tween £4 and £5 in silver. Nash said she had 30s. of the money, but she did not know it ...

... BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—The advance in the Bank rate to 5 per cent., combined with the effect of the re- duction of £2 per ton in iron just announced by the Earl of Dudley and Messrs. Barrows and Thorneycroft, produced a general feeling of depression among the ironmasters on Change 'to-day, but, in the absence of business, there is no further. alteration of prices to note. The maximum quotation ...

... MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A PROSECUTOR, At the Marylebone Police-court on Tuesday, Michael Malley, 22, labourer, living at Cato Bay, Lisson-grove, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with being drunk, and violently assaulting Mr. Samuel Cayford, at Church-street, Marylebone. For some time past Mr. Cayford, a smith, residing at 26, Cap- land-street, Lisson-grove, has assisted the-police in apprehending ...