... USK AND EBBW FISHERIES. We have been favoured with a copy of the report issued by the Chairman and Hon. Secretary to the Uak and Ebbw Board of Conservators, for the year ending December 31st, 1877. We make the following extracts The fishing season of 1877 was generally wet and as a consequence the nets have done badly, but the putt and putcher fisheries have bad an average take. The anglers, ...

... RHETMATI V;.I promptly relieved and cnrorl by a few applications of '• Dt-edge's Ileal All. Of all che.nisfs, Is per bottle. ...

... In the Court of Arches, on Saturday, the Prestbury ritual case. Combe v. the Rev. John Edwards, jun., was concluded. Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Blakesley showed that the ritualistic practices were still con- tinued by the Vicar of Prestbury Parish Church, near Cheltenham, and prayed an orley for his suspension. Lord Penzance ordered Mr. Edwards to be suspended for six months, and the sentence to ...

... The Government have purchased from Sir William Armstrong four 100-ton guns, at a cost of zCl6,000 each, and negotiations are pro- ceeding for the acquisition of a number of smaller weapons identical with those already in the service. The same firm, as well as Sir Joseph Whitworth and Company, have ac- cepted contracts to a large extent for the supply of iron gun carriages, to be completed at ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. MOXDAY.—The Speaker took the chair at fcui o'clock. SoLDIEr.3 FOR IXDIA. In reply to Sir G. Campbell, Mr. HARDY said that no actual agreement had been come to between the India Office and the War Office, in regard to the providing of a suffi- ciency of seasoned and experienced soldiers ioi India. Negotiations had been going on for some time, and counter proposals had been ...

... Who's who in 1878? is a question easily asked, and, as to the titled classes, easily answered by the fortunate possessor of Debrett's Pee-i-ag-P, Baronetage, &c. The name of the work is familiar enough to thousands, who perhaps has never given a moment's thought to the care, diligence, and research necessary for its production but it is impossible to turn over the pages of the handsome and ...

... BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. It is a great pity that those fair dames who are in search of a good complexion, or who are anxious to retain their good looks, should not take more legitimate means of doing so than run- ning after people who make it their business to prey upon the credulity and frailty of human nature. It is surprising that any woman of ordinary education should be ignorant of the fact ...

... THE CUSTOMS CONVENTION WITH SPAIN. VERSAILLES, March 19 (Evening).—In to-day's sitting of the Senate, the estimates of the Minis- ters of Finance, Justice, and Foreign Affairs were adopted. In the Chamber of Deputies the Cus- toms Convention with Spain was voted by 248 against 158. PARIS, March 19 (Evening).—The Bureaux of the Chamber of Deputies have elected a com- mittee of 33 members to ...

... PONTYPOOL. BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The Board of Guardians of the Pontypool Union held their fortnightly meeting on Thursday, when there were present Henry Lewis, Esq., chairman, Messrs G. R. G. Relph, W. Parker, T. E. Cooke, W. Jones, David Llewellio, J. Browne, R. Greenway. T. Phillips, Rev. C. Cook, E Jones, J. E. Price, H. Par- ti tt, 1. T. Edmonds, C. Conway, I. Morgan, Col. Byrde. The minutes ...

... | FACETLE. Policeman's motto— Give us arrest. Matters of interest—Government bondg: Motto for a cat show- Come to the scratch. What the ship said to the caulker- Rum oakum (oh, come) with me. The aerial quickstep is what thev call a hanging in Kansas.—American Paper. WTien may the weather be said to have caught cold? WThen its blows its snows so hard. Sharks wont bite a swimmer who ...

... SEDUCTION DESTITCTTOX. —Late on Sunday evening two labouring men residing in Grangetown, Cardiff, observed a. woman on the bank of the Taff, near the Penarth bridge. She walked along the bank, backwards and forwards, for a short time, and then sat down near one of the buttresses of the bridge. They waited for a few minutes, and on hearing her crying and sobbing, they jumped over the rails and ...

... Sarah Avery, an attractive looking girl of eighteen, well dressed, and wearing a silver cross, was brought before the Bristol magistrates, on Wednesday, under the following circumstances:—She said she had been sent to Bristol by the Lady Superior of the Society of the Holy Cross, who have a home for destitute cliild- ren at Shaldon Green, near Teignmouth. The Lady Superior gave her the exact ...