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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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... A case of collision in the Bristol Channel was before the Court of Admiralty on Monday, on a claim for damages, in respect of a collision between the steam- ships Northumberland and Leopard. Mr. Butt, Q.C., and Mr. E. C. Clarkson appeared for the Northumber- land Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Gainsford Bruce for the Leopard. The Northumberland, on the evening of the 12th of January last, was in the ...
... 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 ...
... WHEAT.—Influenced by the milder weather and by the very satisfactory reports from the agricultural districts re- garding the growing' crops, the grain trade presented a somewhat less buoyant appearance. The supplies of Bnglish wheat were limited, and from abroad also the ar- rivals were not extensive. Trade was quiet, but f(;r all descriptions, mere particularly choice samples, extreme prices ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...