... The county Dublin Grand J ury,on Monday, passed a resolution, by fifteen to six votes, sanctioning the proposal of the Dublin Southern District Tramwav Company to use steam power on their Blaekroek line. A labourer named Hugh Maguire has been charged at Manchester, with biting his wife's lip off. Prisoner and his wife had been drinking, and in a quarrel he seized her under-lip between his ...

... A French statist has come to the conclusion, after very laborious examination of the number of leaths from railway accidents in all parts of the world, that if a person were to live continually n a railway carriage, and spend all his time n travelling the chances in favour of his dying from -ailwav accidents would not occur until he was 960 fears old. John Martin Wall, accountant, was charged ...

... To the Bditor of the Free Prets. Sir,-WiR you allow me to correct the report contained in your valuable paper of last week with reference to the above. The adjudicator (Mr D. Bowen) in giving his adjudication on the anthem, Open ye the gates, linked Nos 1, 4, and 5 choirs as being wanting in harmony;-these were the Blaenavon, Tabernacle (Baptist), and Primitive Methodist, Pontypool. He (Mr B. ...

... English wheat in fair supply; prices unaltered. Foreign in fair demand, at Is to 2s advance upon last week. Barley, 3d cheaper. Maize, 3d dearer. Oats steady. ...

... IN the absence of more definite information than as yet has been made public, it is not easy to dis- cover a sufficient reason for the fact stated by Mr BIRCHAM yesterday week to the assembled Board of Guardians of Pontypool Union. That gentle- man said he considered the out relief given to paupers and vagrants in this Union to be exces- sive, and that out of a total of 11,400 persons re- ...

... MONDAY.—Before the Rev J. C. LLEWELLIN and C. J. PARKES, ESQ. A PROMISE OF SOBRIETY. Joseph Rowe was charged by P.c. Adams with being found helplessly drunk in the streets at Pontypool on Saturday night.—Prisoner said it was the first time he had been drunk, and pro- mised that it should be the last.-The Bench hoped it would, and only imposed a fine of 5s. STEALING APPLES IN THE MARKET. Thomas ...

... FUNERAL OF THE LATE MRS THOMAS.—On Fri- day last the remains of the beloved wife of Mr John Thomas, clerk to the Blaenavon Local Board, were conveyed to their last resting-place in Blaen- avon churchyard. The vicar and curate officia- ted. The funeral was private. SPECIAL PRATER MEETINGS.—Prior to some evangelistic services which will be held in the Pri- mitive Methodist Chapel, next week, by ...

... TREASURE DISCOVERED AT CABUL. MORE FIGHTING AT ALI KHEYL. THE QUEEN AND THE TROOPS. [TIMES TELEGRAMS.] CABUL, Friday, October the 29th.—The abdi- cation of the Ameer, and the introduction of British administration were proclaimed yesterday in the city and despatched to the towns and provinces. The late Ameer, though professing :anxiety to give up the caies of office, is unwilling to hand over ...

... ONTYPOOL PETTY SESSIONS. v SATURDAY. ore Col. BYRDE (in the chair), C. J. PARKES, Esq., and E. J. PHILLIPS, Esq. THE COLLIER S'DISPUTE. adjourned case of Godwin v. The Ebbw Company, in which the complainant sought RECOVER £1 4s 9d, amount alleged to be due for -JTAIN deductions made for slag, was first *&ed. I complainant stated that he was instructed J THE manager of the works to label a ...

... PANTEG CHORAL SOCIETy.-The programme for the rehearsal of the Messiah, on Tuesday next, follows :—Nos. 2 to 4, 9 (chorus only), 12, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 26, 29, 30, 33 to 35, 37, 42 to 45, 47, 49, 50, and 56. THE Rev T. W. Davies, B.A., formerly of Ponty- pool College, and recently of Regent's Park Col- lege, London, commenced his regular ministsy at High Street Baptist Chapel, Merthyr, on ...

... BY THE REV. T. R. EDWARDS, (Late Student of Pontypool College.) OCTOBER 29th.-This morning came as usual, with its bright, warm sunshine, its cool, fragrant breezes, and its heaving, flashing waves. It came finding us all alive with excitement, and indulging in joyful anticipations for we knew that at about 12 o'clock we should arrive at Malta, where for the first time since our depar- ture ...

... RELIEF OF KOHIMA. The Times' correspondent at Simla sends the fol. lowing particulars of the relief of Kohima. Prompt measures are being taken for the suppres- sion of the Naga outbreak, and a large force for thit purpose is beins- collected at Go]aghat under General Nation. Colonel Johnstone, political agent at Mun- nipore, who marched to relieve Kohima, arrived there on the 27th of October ...