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... SWANSEA. It is stated that Mr. Sterry has purchased the whole of Mr. C. H. Smith's collieries and mineral property. It is reported that the BIshwell collieries, near Swansea, formerly worked by the Royal Forest of Dean Mining Company, have been purchased by a well-known firm, and will be restored. THE NEW STEEL VORKS AT LouGtion. -A great num- ber of hands are now employed in excavating the ...
... Td-«!ay'a market was well attended and well supplied, aad was remarkable for the number of calves and lambs en offer. The supply of sleep was about the average, with five or six pens of Spanish amongst them. The pigs were very few. but sows were exceedingly well repre- tented. Trade, on the whole, was brisk, the prices being —Beef 7d to 8d per lb., mutton 9icl to lOd per Ib, pigs 108 te 10s 6d ...
... left ^NTiNorLB, April 23.—Prince Frederick Charles V on board an Austrian steamer for Vienna via hijjj a He has accepted an antique sword, presented to f a souvenir of his visit here by the German colony clothe Sultan the Order of the Medjidie of the first boarj -Prince William of Denmark left yesterday on a French steamer, also en route for Vienna ...
... Several items of District News are unavoidably crowded out. ...
... Scarcely a day passes without notice being called to- the conduct of youths and children in the streets of Cardiff and other towns. Complaints are made of the way in which persons are annoyed by coarse language, rude behaviour, and mischievous practices, not always of an innocent and childlike character. We have very little expectation that a reformation will be effected among the youths, who ...
... CHRISTIAN YOUNG MEN'S ASSOCIATION -On Tuesday last a practical address was given in the rooms of the Young Men's Association, by the Rev. T. C. Williams, subject, No more sea. HOATH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.—On Wednesday evening the Rev. Kilsby Jones lectured at the above church on the life and times of John Penry, the Brecon- shire martyr. The lecturer rivetted the attention of a very good ...
... THE REY. DR. THOMAS ON THE EDUCA- TION QUESTION. The Rev. Dr. Thomas, of Pontypool College, presided at the meeting opening the spring session of the Baptist Union of England and Wales, on Monday night. In the course of his address the Rev. Doctor confessed that he had not been able either to advance or recede from the position taken about a. quarter of a century ago by the leading ...
... j^-BEEAK OF ASIATIC CHOLERA IN POLAND. Rea?ELlN, APIIIL 24th, 8.10 a.m.—Intelligence has e(^ here that Asiatic cholera has broken out at in Poland, and 21 deaths from the epidemic Ve taken place in nine days. ...
... Death from starvation was the verdict returned by a coroner's jury in the case of an old woman, the widow of a nobleman's gardener, who died in Bloomsbury. It was asserted that her brother was a man of some pro- perty, and refused to assist her. This, however, he denied but the neighbours were so incensed against him that the police had to interfere. f ...
... UNWARRANTABLY ASSAULTING A LANDLORD.-At the police-court on Wednesday, Dennis Rayes, Edward Clancey, and John Keefe were severally charged with assaulting Thomas Plummer, landlord of the Royal George Inn, Pillgwenlly.—Clancey and Keefe did not appear, but were represented by their wives.—Mr. W. J. Lloyd, solicitor, appeared for the complainant, and stated that he believed the facts would show ...
... In British Railway Stocks, Midland bus improvec11 on an increase in the traffic receipts of £ 15,062. Great Western is a trifle higher. The traffic receipts of the North Eastern line shows an increase of 27.431. Foreign Stocks are dull; Turkish Five per cents, of 1865 at a fall of and the ditto Six per cents, of 1865 at 90 decline of The contango rates both in British railway stocks and in ...