... Recently a very excellent chalybeate spring has been discovered at this beautiful little seaport, situated at the mouth of the river Ayron, on the coast of Cardigan Bay, 16 miles south-west of Aberystwith, and 13 miles from Lampeter. The spring is likely to become very popular, and is calculated to increase tenfold the numb r of visi- tors to that town. During the summer of 1878 Dr Burghardt, ...

... THE PONTYPOOL LOCAL BOARD AND MB. MASTERS. Our readers will remember that the Pontvpool Loc.,1 Board were defendants in an action tried in the Queen's Bench, at the suit of Mr Masters, respecting the Greyhound corner, and lost the trial. Local Government Board have refused to sanction their mortgaging the rates to pay the costs and damages; and the board have, at a special adjourned meeting, ...

... {BY A LOOKER ON, 1 At the present crisis it may not be altogether out of place to take a cursory but retrospective glance at the development of the South Wales coal trade, the fluctuations which it has undergone, and which affect more or less the issue recently raised between the coal masters and their work- men and whi-di may serve to clear away some of the confused notions which the public ...

... CHEPSTOW. AT THJ. PETTY-SESSIONS, on Tlmrsdav, John Parker, George Harris, a Teresa Arthur, were fined for being drunk.—William Taylor, Black- with, St. Briavels. was fiued 11-s aud costs :j (Jd, for entering a tram while in motion, on the Wye Valley Railway.—Sarah Dance vras charged with assaulting Elizabeth Light, at Tintez-r).- The case was dismissed.—John Arthur, George Curtifs, and Henry ...

... WE have several days' later news from South Africa to hand, the most interesting passage in which points to an armistice of a fort- night's duration between King CETEWAYO and the British forces. WTe should think that Lord CHELMSFORD is not sorry for this turn in the tide of events. No candid Englishman will feel other than pleased that there is. a possibility of averting the flow of a river of ...

... A STAINED CLASS Winnow has been erected in the parish of Goodrich, iu memory of the late vicar, the Rev. H. C. Morgan, by a few relatives and friends. ...

... THE COM M AN DE ll- I N Cil IEF IN INDIA. Sir Fre lerick Haines, the Commander-in-Chief in India, will complete his five years of staff em- ployment next spring. He will be succeeded by Sir Garnet Wolseiey, presuming that the service of the latter can be spared at the Cape by that time. The appointment is by far the most exten- sive command in the British Army, and is better paid than any ...

... A deplorable taste is that which leads some people to take a delight in listening to, and gloat. ing over, the discomfiture or misfortune of others. Some little time ago the Press was loud in its denunciation of the custom, which became fashionable even amongst ladies, of attending the various courts in the Metropolis when it was known that disclosures of a peculiarly objection- able kind were ...

... COMMON SENSE OF UNSETTLED QOESTIC No l,-HOME RULE. Indefiniteness is, perhaps, the most serious oi the hindrances to just reasoning in politic? certainly there is no question of the day indefiniteness has done so much harm t Home Rule question. Here, however, the is not wi ll the public it is solely of those who have put it forward as a c, Ireland. Mr Justin McCarthy, the lively picturesque ...

... THE SITUATION IN ZULULAND. THE latest news from Zululand is not pleasant reading. Lord CHELMSFORD continues to shew his incompetency, and that too in a manner simply incredible in a full-chested Englishman. He is, apparently in mortal fear of the Zulus, although with 27,000 men at his command, all able and willing to fight, if they were allowed to advance as they desire, lie should be ...

... quantity oi crockery ware, and 1106 china teasels, plattera, ings, washhand basins, strewed er tkem. From thence wo went to the village#, v'-iere we met King fiuerdia, who was most plea- -s:i-\t to us. He is the finest made man about here, he has left off wearing rings on id Ie and in general places great faith in what v e say. A short time since ha and King Can- sj'imp-icka came to Mr Johnson ...

... KIDWELLY. Taa PETIT were held at the Town- hub on Monday. Wilii;;in Morgan, of Llamaint. was charged with Irm.kenness. and fined 9s and oste.— James Antlioriy, J. Gravall, and John Wiiiiams were eaarg*d with assaulting Martin Lloyd, and fined £ 1 each and costs.—A filiation orders of 3s j»ei ■ eek were made r,c;-dr«t J. Harris, rural peatman, end a man named G-ower, oi Lltmsaiut, wno is at ...