... AFFAIRS IN ZULULAND. The Colonial Secretary has requested Sir Garnet Wolseley to make known to Col. Bayley his sense of the admirable arrangements made by him for the cap- ture of Moirosis stronghold- ...

... THE SHOCKING OUTRAGE tjPON A GIRL NEAR PONTYPOOL. At the Magistrates' clerk's office, in Pontypool. on Wednesday last, William Hobbs and Albert Smith, farm servants were brought up on remand from the piewous I ritlay, charged with committing a rape upon the person of Mary Newman, on the night of the 9th inst., at Llanvjir Kilgeddin. Mrelltyd Gardner, Aber- gavenny, appeared for the prosecution ...

... The Times correspondent at Candahar, under date of December 6, sends the folio vin^ There is nothing new to record this week, except that a rumour is current in the city that Ayub Khan, with 12 regiments of infantry and three of cavalry, has marched from Herat with a view to drawing us out of Candabar. Such a movement is not unlikely, but it is to be feared that Ayub's troops will never come ...

... SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-On Saturday morning, Mrs Derrett, of Usk,while going to the railway station, slipped on the ice and broke her right leg in two places. She was conveyed home and attended by Dr. Shepard, and is now going on as favourably as can be expected. ...

... BREAD RIOTS AT RAVENNA. A Telegram from Rome on Wednesday night states that, in consequence of the distress prevail- ing, bread riots have occured in the district of Ravenna. ...

... A NEWPORT SOLICITOR IMPRISONED.—On Tues- day, at the Middlesex Sessions, before Mr Prentice, Q.C., Charles Blake, 33, a solicitor, was indicted for obtaining by false pretences, one valuable se- curity, value €100, the property of Eugene Wasson, with intent to defraud. Mr Masterman prosecuted. ME Gill defended the prisoner.—Mr Gill made a long address on behalf of the prisoner at the close of ...

... MONMOUTH. THEFT OF Monday morning, informa- tion was received at the Monmouth police office that had been stolen from Mrs Nutty's lodg- ing-house. It was found that Mrs Nutty kept her money secreted under her bed, and her room-door always locked. The money was stolen on Monday. ...

... MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Saturday, Thomas Lewis and a man named Nicholas Rimron were employed at the bottom of the shaft at Cymmer Colliery, and were in the act of pushing a tram loaded with pitwood across the cage, when the en. gine driver had a signal for the cage to ascend. Rimron was taken up, and Lewis suspended to it. The machinery was not stopped until the cage had ascended about 150 yards ...

... The card room hands in the employ of Messrs. Qrmerod Brothers' mill at Todmorton have accepted a further 5 per cent, wages reduction. It iastated that Dr. Seaton, who not long since succeeded Dr. Simon as medical officer of the Local Government Board, has resigned his appointment. The captain and six hands of the Norwegian barque Clara, lost at Hasborough Sands have been landed at Harwicy the ...

... EXPULSION OF MR. JOHN WILLIAMS.- A SCENE. The usual monthly meeting of the Pontypool Local Board was held at the Town Hall on Wed- nesday, Mr T. Fletcher in the chair. There were also present-Messrs W. Sandbrook, P. Eckersley, W. H. Rosser, W. H. Haskins, S. Morgan, G. Jeremiah, D. Davies, T. Roderick, H. Fox, G. Gorrell, G. J. Jee, and F. Morgan. Besides the officers, Mr John Williams, of the ...

... We have much pleasure in announcing that the publication of an OriginalDomestie Story, of great interest, entitled NEMO, by Mrs, I). Moseley, will be commenced in our issue of December 20. ...

... SATURDAY. Before Col. BYRDE (in the chair), C. J. PARKES, Esq., and E. J. PHILLIPS, Esq. DRUNKENNESS. Patrick Nagle, who did not appear, was sum- moned for being drunk on the highway at Aber- sychan.—P.c. Davies proved the charge, and the Bench imposed a fine of 10s, or seven days. Hannah Green, another absentee, was sum- moned for being drunk on the highway at Llan- vrechva.—P.c. Gardner ...