... EBBW VALE. +i,0linrlinclayf.0cti>^ 6th, special services were held at theJ-onoregational Chapel in this place, when three ser- mor» were delivered by Professor Oliver, M.A., classical w ie^of p5efm°.nal Colle-e- Brecon' The EeV B- Hufhe. of Beaufort, preached in Welsh in the afternoon. ...

... RHYMNEY. CONTEMPLATED STOPPAGE OF THE WORKS.—Late on Saturday afternoon last notices were issued intimating that all present engagements between the Company and their workmen will terminate at the expiration of a calendar month from that date. Many and various are the surmisings as to the cause and objects of them, and a deputation of some of the branches of industry will wait on the several ...

... THE NEW RECORDER OF CARMARTHEN. The appointment of Mr. B. T. Williams as Recorder of Carmarthen, will be a source of satisfaction to the community at large. As a magistrate he is well known in Pembrokeshire for his probity and steidmg integrity as a Chancery barrister he is esteemed foi his sound legal knowledge, and as a gentleman thoroughly ac- quainted with the Principality he occupies a ...

... 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 ...

... The Bombay Gazette gives an account of a visit paid to Hindoo temple in an obscure part of the town of Bombay during the celebration of the eighth incarnation of Vishnu:— A crowd of men, it seems, had attended in the temple all the previous night, worshipping the imago of the god and reciting the shastras. These were now dancing in the streets, some clinking cymbals, and several making a ...

... SERIOUS EXPLOSION.—As a refiner at these works, on Tuesday morning, was, according to custom, throwin water on the melting iron which was proceeding from his fur- nace, an explosion of a serious character took place, whereby two females were severely injured. A SEVERE ACCIDENT.—About twelve o'clock on Mon- day night last, whilst John Davies, apparently about 40 years of age, was engaged in ...

... The Cardigan Steam Navigation Company have pre- sented Mr. T. Edwards, master of the Tivyside steamer, with a very handsome gold Albert guard as a token of their respect and esteem, aad in recognition of services rendered to the Uprightness. We regret to state that Mr. J. Head, collector of cus- toms at this port, is about to be transferred to Deal. Mr. Head leaves amid the best wishes of the ...

... On Sunday a painful and fatal case of somnambulism occurred at South Shields to Peter Olsen, a Swedish seaman belonging to the schooner Betgefrink, of Holland, lying in Tyne docks. Early in the morning Olsen was heard to get out of his berth and walk on deck. Immediately afterwards he was heard to fall from the ship into the water. An alarm was at once raised, and his shipmates proceeded to ...

... TIlE KELYEDON RAILWAY ACCIDENT. N,, OFFICIAL INQUIRY. SfA-1 ^Uflniry into the cause of th9 Kelvedon railway ident was re-opened on Monday, the jury having e^°Usly inspected the spot where it occurred. Hatcher, ti>^ tnan' stated that he left Markstey at the proper ?' -David Clark, signalman, saw the acciden u d not account for it. It occurred at 34 £ minutes st X2, The train was going at the ...

... KILLING NO MURDER. Mrs. Laura Fair is a very remarkable woman— very remarkable people are becoming scarce, therefore it would be a pity to hang Mrs. Fair. This seems to have been about the line of argument which conducted a marvellously ignorant San Francisco jury to the ex- traordinary verdict of acquittal which turns loose upon. society a woman who has outraged nearly all the principles on ...