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... SIR SPENCER ROBINSON ON HIS DEFEAT. Sir Spencer Robinson has issued a farewell address to the electors of Tamworth. in which he says were not successful, but we were not disgra'ced. I believe the freedom and independence of this borough are dear to you ? all. You have struggled for the success of these principles before now you have suSered for them; but through defeat, notwithstanding ...
... NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Army and Aaty Gazette says:—The rumour which prevailed in naval circles during the week, to the effect that Rear-Admiral Key, C.B., had refused the appoint- ment of Principal of the Naval University, h unfounded, and we have every reason to believe that he will accept it. —If Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Leopold M'Clintock, F.R.S., is desirous of being employed ...
... MERTHYR BOARD OF HEALTH. The usual fortnightly meeting of this Board was held on a Wednesday. Present—Mr William Jones (chairman), Messrs Thomas Jenkins, Wm. Gould, Gabe, James, Rice, and Howells. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. THE CLERK'S BILL. The Chairman announced that the committee appointed 'to go into the question of the clerk's bill had met last Monday and ...
... | 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 ...
... At the Mansion-house on the 27th ult., a well- dressed young man of 21, who had given the false name of Arthur Sidney Burney, was charged on remand, before Alderman Sir Sydney Waterlow, with forgeries upon Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, Hi ban! cers, Lombard-street. On the 6th of May, 1370, two cheques for £ 150 and £ 25, purporting to bear the ^■1 signature of Messrs. Duche and Sons, of ...
... ANOTHER EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE. On the 30th ult. at Tuckingmill, a populous mining village in West Cornwall, was tho scene of a sad acei- dent, by which eight girls, between the ages of 17 and 21, lost their lives. About one hundred o-irls are employed in Messrs.. Bickford, Smith, and Co.'s factory, in which patent fuse is manufactured. A number of girls attended to clean up the spinning- ...
... delltTAL ACCIDENT AT ABERNANT.—Another fatal acei- at the Abernant Iron Company's Mineral Railway Vijjf lr ...
... GLAMORGANSHIRE REFORMATORY SCHOOL. Among the beneficent agencies which the enlighten- ment and philanthropy of the age have brought into operation, that of the Reformatory School claims con- siderable attention. It is not merely that the waifs and strays of the streets are gathered together and subjected to a refining process, but that positive crime is nipped in the bud, and the nascent ...
... THE MARRIAGE FESTIVITIES. Cardiff is in the throes of labour, r,very do^eu y .ids • Vf -,pinal streets signs are evident of the struggle m, b,e Shi* place to bring forth, on Tuesday, such v of orSamentas shall redeem the character of some amount of artistic feelmg. Hou.es aie aueauy Sing oat glass bosses, cunningly-woven web» o tin 1 g..s times, with mottoes and strange devices, darkly shadow ...
... THE PRICE OF MEAT. On Tuesday a novel subject occupied the attention of the House of Commons. One of the members for Bir- mingham asked the Premier whether it would be pos- sible to issue a proclamation calling upon her Majesty's loyal subjects to abstain from eating veal and lamb, and thereby giving to these unsuspecting victims of the butcher's knife an opportunity to grow up into full- ...
... PENARTH. PETTY SESSIONS.—On Monday, before the Rev^ H- H. Rickards, and H. T Lee Matthew Grithths, Ynispen- Dwch, James Be van, Bentyrch, Jonah Davis, and William Davies, Llan^aff, all appeared to s^m to show cause why should they not contribute s°mei?V towards the maintenance of their old parent- charge was proved by Ldward Millas, collector Union, and crders were made accordingly--&e^e^^tf' ...
... THE WELSH IN LIVERPOOL. The Welsh Baptist Association of Liverpool and Birkenhead was held last week, when the following ministers from North and South Wales officiated The Revs. E. Thomas, Newport; J. Thomas, Bassaleg; D. Oliver Edwards, EbbwVale H. Price, Rhydwilym G. H. Roberts, Tabor; J. Jones, Llauberis D. Thomas, and G. James, Llangefni; S. Thomas, Bala; W. T. Davies, Pandv'r Capel J. R. ...