... NEWPORT HARBOUR COMM118- SIONERS. - ?? .- .1 . d w e vT#IMI.,X\ 3) 5Uti. LttiC . LUNDY ISLAND AB A HAlD(UlJRL OF REY'£UGE, The monthly meeting wna held ye0torday, a qltoiun haviing bees obtoined after waiting twonty tImitiu. Mr, T. B. Blatchelor presided, aud thern were alto present Admiral Fiota, Mr. W. BeynOn, Mr. J. ?? 1nin, hir. D. Pryce and Mr. L. Lewib. Tho mirlutt i of the meeting held ...

... c DAWSONESQUE. I I I e- - it This word is a new coinage, and is from the 1And At of counterfeit coin. It ls essentially Brumm'agem. tt It has been struck off to explain the wonderful d acial expreasion of a portrait of Mr. Geo. Dawson, bL he pastor of St. Saviour's, just added to the gai- 'ery of paintings in Ratcliffe-plac The pose of r, the figure ia admirable, says the coiner, and the ...

... THE CONTEST IN THE SOUTH WARD. The contest for the vacant seat in the Cardiff Town Council (caused by the death of Mr Philip Bird), which took place yesterday, was one of the most closely fought contests that ha3 been known for some time. Like the election in the East Ward on Monday, the battle was made a political one, and all the machinery of a Par- liamentary election was brought into ...

... The intrusion of Mr. Bow ex into the South Ward after his decisive rejection by his own Ward on Monday is resented and pro- perly so-by the electors of the South Ward as an insult to theu intelligence and independence. This prevails feeing amongst the burgesses finds utterance in varied forms of expression. It is petinently and most conclusively asked, If the burgesses of the East Ward, who ...

... ACCIDENT.—An accident occurred on the Cwmavon Railway on Wednesday afternoon When the tiain which runs from Cwmavon to Port Talbot was fpproach- mg the tiding near Cwmavon, a roan named Kichard Sinale, 57 years of age, attempted to jump ° while it was in motion; but he slipped under the trains, and one of his feet was cut off. ...

... THK MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.— Last evening tbe inquest j on the body of Mr Thomas Roper, aged 68, whose dis- tressing death by suicide occurred as reported in yester- day's Daily News, was held at the Tredegar Arms Hotel, before Mr W. H. Brewer, coroner. The facts were brief and simple, and the evidence clearly showed that the de- ceased buffered from absence of mind. A verdict of Temporary ...

... I FROM øUB SPECIAL CORIUtsPONn A trade in iron rails mv»t, .M,ed, be y '0li throughout the G0^11 « or(jer8 w ',stated in issue of to-day, ™are tiir^0, Wales> b^cau/ereW afford to undersell th^g V 5? ^ere can» therefore, > or(jers WhioK otkrth of England for with «jll th stiU Would, t ...

... CANTON LOCAL BOARD. The monthly meeting of this board was held vesterday. Mr T. V. Yorath was in the chair, and the members present were Mr Glaves, Mr Stacey, Mr Sanders, wijUgller' Mr French> Mr Little, Mr Tylke, Mr TV11 (°'ERK)J Mr James (surveyor). tebe £ 2fo0nfit^lleCteidiUring th1 Tnth wau reported t De H10 lis 6d., and the amount dUe to the treasurer Wate improvements £ 236 6s Id. ...

... CARDIFF, Wednesday.— The schooner, Helena, has arrived in Penarth Roads damaged. ...

... BIRTH. On the 1st inst., at 14, Tramroad-side, Merthyr, the wife of Mr C. Griffiths, bookbinder, late of Northamp- ton, of a daughter. MARRIAGE. On the 5th inst., at Pontrhun Church, Troedyrhiw, by the Rev Mr Green, Mr James Hartley, draper, Aberdare, to Mrs Boyle, of Merthyr TydfiL ...

... Krrs's COCOA.—OsA/mrcx Ufb CoHrosTiwo— By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the, operations of difrestWU SB3 hutntion. and by a careful ao- nlicatio:. of the fine property of well-selected cocoa, Mr Fpps has provided our breaVfwt tables with a delicately flavoured bevewsre which may save us msny heay cloct^s bills it is by the judicious use of such articles of diet tiiat a ...

... GOOD NEWS.—A Swansea contemporary learns that a large contract has just been concluded between the directors of the Midland Company and the Swansea Wagon Company for the supply of one hundred third- class passenger Carriages, which means an expenditure of something like £ 25,00^ or JS30,000 in our midst. DISORDERLIES.—At the Borough police-court, on Saturday, before Messrs. Cameron, M. B. ...