... MONMOUTllSHIRE BITUMINOUS f\ *.v i COLLIERIES district working^ucb08 collieries of the than nrftviram f« .i, mu°h more regularly now Sr cent r^nil he of the recent 10 been felt »n v 'i the reduction has not number of workuSin^the^ aiiticiPa*;d- The collieriaa V- e various bituminous Stha atMmn6^ diminished some having left Glamor/a,^0 uand- house«>al collieries of earnings are much highJr ...

... GREAT FIRES IN SPAIN. 34 LIVES LOST. MADRID, Thursday.—Several fires are re- ported in the Spanish provinces. In one case 34 lives were lost. ...

... ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN DEAN FOREST. James Hobbs. residing near Blakeney, in the Forest of Dean, was found, on Wednesday night, in one of the enclosures with his throat cut. It is supposed that he had made a second attempt at suicide by drowning, as he was discovered near a quarry pool, not only bleeding iu the neck, but wet through. Drs. Webb, of Blakeney, and Carlton, of Newnham, ...

... NEWPORT TRADE REPORT. [SPECIAL REPORT FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,] NEWPORT, Thursday Evening.—During the week the trade of the port has been steady, and without anything of particular im- portance to note, a fair amount of business is doing. Owing to the favourable weather and wind a large number of vessels have left the ports, so that the docks' wharves present rather a bare appearance. A ...

... ALLEGED INFANTICIDE AT tJOLEFOHD. VERDICT OF IvIANSLAUaHTER. Mr Carter, the Forest divisional coroner, held an inquiry at the police-court, ou Wednesday, on the body of a newly born and fully developed child, the parentage of which traced to Sarah Baylisf, a domestic in tne service of Mr and Mrs Yarworth, of Ellwood. From the facts elicited at the inquiry, it appeared that the young woman ...

... [FJWM TUESDAY N-IGIIT'S I GAZETTE.] Wm. Sketchley, of Abergavenny, Mon., builder. Rees Evans, of Llanelly, Carm., grocer's assistant, late a grocer at Pontardulais. David Tegid-street, Bala, Merioneth, tinman, glazier, and dealer. ...

... CATHOLIC SCHOOL.—The annual treat of the Hibernian school was given on Monday. The children marched in a long procession to Bryn- mawr Faim, partook of dinner, and amused them- selves by various games, under the superinten- dence of the Rev. Father Capron. At 5 o'clock the scholars were marched to the schoolroom, where a plentiful supply of tea and cake was pro- vided. A concert terminated the ...

... AN APPLICATION was made to the Chancellor of the dioceae on the 28th inst., in the Consistory Court, by the churchwardens of St. Woolos, New- port, based upon a resolution of the vestry, for the removal of a disused j and ill-lighted organ gallery. There being no opposition, the faculty was granted. -—————— ) ...

... A meeting of the parochial choirs of the Mon- mouthshire division of the above association took t lace on Wednesday :fternoon, at Christ Church, Ebbw Vale. The choirs of;Nantyglo, Brynmawr, Beaufort, Ebbw Vale, Victoria, Rhymney, &c., were joined by those from Newport and other places. Mr RichardlSeaton, choir-master to the association, had visited each at intervals during the past few months, ...

... The fi st Fro'estant church in the Tyrol was opened on Sunday at Ihn&biuck. ...

... XIDDlESBROUGH TOWN COUN OIL tic THE TOWN CLERK'S FEES. CO Yesterday afternoon the quarterly meeting of st the aldiddlesbrough Town Council was hold in the di Corporation Buildings-the Mayor (Ildermeanl W. to Buliuer) in the chair. of TEE TEES CONSERVANCY COuntISSIONXIIS. m The Tows CL1ELIi read a letter from Mr Joseph so Dodds, the chief clerk to the Tees Conservancy hc Commissioners, stating ...

... NOnTfl COUNTRY NEWS. *~ I DURHAM OCATHEDDL. I i, MONDY, UGU3 2O lfB9. MsoaNimy, Arenas 25, 1879. 1 Iitfer-rvlce: gaj : T ,eiahn (:. Anthem (8) 0 Laord,Thy o droedureth (Tye). s EvengSe -Ssrcioe: Torer ila P. Alalhem (160): The To horse ald his iddoer (andl). -_ _ _ h Lad&y Constance Phipps is row on a visit to the 0 Doeager-Marehioness of Normlaiby at Mulgrave I Castle. D Palmer's Shipbuilding ...