... On Tuesday morning the work of examining the voting papers and reckoning the votea given in the election of members for the Merthyr Local Board election was commenced, and during the afternoon the result of the contests in all the wards was made known. In four out of the five wards there were contests. Mr Thomas Jenkins, who retired for the Dewlais Ward, did not stand, whilst Mr D. Davies, ...

... These Sessions commenced on Monday last at Swansea, on which day the county business w?s transacted. On the following day (Tuesday), the criminal business was proceeded with, when the follow- ing cases from this locality were heard and disposed of. ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES AT MERTHYR. Mary Gowman, (on bail,) was indicted for obtaining by false pretences fram Mary Flaberty, a pair of boots, the ...

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... AN AMERICAN TRAINING SHIP ASHORE. A telegram was received on Friday, at Portsmouth Dockyard, asking for assistance for the Constitution, American training frigate, which had gone ashore off Swanage, and the Malta tug was sent off immediately. The Constitution which was a sixty-one gun frigate in the time of the American War, and engaged with the Java, an English thirty-two gun ship, Captain ...

... A curious story (the Sfatis remarks) cornea freIè Germany. The Free Trade newspapers of that notice that a certain German ironworks—the Rah- rort-tendered rails for the supply of the Dutoh Railways at t5. per 1,000 kilos., being the lowest, and, therefore, the successful bid; but it tendered to the Prussian Main-Weser State Railway, foreigs tenders being excluded in that case by Miniateriet ...

... The Daily New. correspondent in Rome, telegraph- ing, says:—The Victories of the Faith in Rome and Henry (sic) Newman, a Cardinal of the Holy Church,—such is the title of a leader in Unita Oat- toliea, It says What manner of man Dr. Newman is the Anglicans themselves have told us. According to Dr. Pusey, he was destined to restore to the in- stitution of Henry the Eighth the splendour it had ...

... ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR. THE VAYNOR SCHOOL BOARD. SIB,—1 beg to thank you for your kind and compli- mentary remarks on the occasion of my retirement from Vaynor School Board, and I hope that you will allow me thus publicly to testify how great has been the help accorded to the members of the Board by their indefatigible and clever vice-chairman, Mr William Jones, to whom by right belongs the ...

... A great trades demonstration was held in Hyde Park, London, on Saturday. Among the trades re- presented were the amalgamated engineers, the furriers tailors, hatters, boilermakers, bookbinders, pattern- makers, railway servants, and ironfounders, number- ing in all about 15,000 persons. A temporary platform was erected in the vicinity of the Reformers Tree. Mr. J. Burnett, who was unanimously ...

... A few mornings since an explosion occurred on board the Union Company's steamer Pretoria, lying in the Southampton Docks, inflicting severe injuviee on eight men, one of whom named Batchelor, died three hours after his admission to the infirmary. Another lios in a precarious condition, while the rest arc more orlessinjured from burns and bruises. The vessel had coaled the day previous, and, ...

... GIPSY CHILDREN'S HOMES. The Rev. George Smith, of Coalville, writes to the 1>ailv Neves as io lows:— Amongst some of the torrowful featurei of gipsy life I have noticed lately none call more loudly for Government help, assist- ance, and supervision than the wretched little rag and (tick hovels, scarcely large enough to hold a coatermonger's wheelbarrow, in which the poor gipsy women and ...

... Kate Webster, agei 30, domestic iervant, was again brought up before the bench of magistrates at Richmond on Tuesday, charged with the murder of Mrs. Julia Martha Thomas, at No. 2, Vine Cottages, Richmond, on or about the 2nd March last. Mr. Poland prosecuted on behalf of the Treasury Mr. Valentine Browne appeared for the prisoner. John Church, cross-examined by Mr. Browne, said he had been to ...

... AriEjiFILD AS4-' v \-j L, LITTON. The following telegram, da-ed Calcutta, December 12, says;—The Viceroy 011 »rnvin« here this evening was twice fired at, b:.t f -rluitaie.y escaped unhurt. The mom who fired 1, ...