... 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. ...

... ^§»l°ttpSers°of7IT^ ?heriff received the Kov*W candidates on Mondav Mr. f^6' Qeens gate London, ES hn D* M'Corkell, Strand House 8«4^iQatedn8e5LatlVe,iTere4thvf °nly candi: colling takes place on the guard, were I/111 818ienal' „ n?e sustaining fractured ribs t>Utnbarf!fmo °°Uiding with a passenger Station on Saturday. The smashed, and a first-class carriage ...

... There is nothing more nourishing and warming. weather than a cup of really good Cocoa, but the has been to obtain it pure. This may be secured »t of one halpenny for a large breakfast cap by usi0*?$0 bury's Cocoa Essence, which goes three times as ibe adulterated and starchy compounds ordinarily 8? gtf smallest packet making fourteen breakfast caps Cocoa. j ...

... WEST AND SOUTH YORKSHIRE COALOWNERS.— On Dec. 5, a representative meeting of the coal- owners of West and South Yorkshire was hold at Wakefield with a view to arriving at a mutual arrangement as to the basis of a sliding scale for the regulation of wages. The result is not an- nounced. CURIOUS POINT IN A MINERS' STRIKE.—A curious point has arisen in connection with the strike of Warwickshire ...

... NEWPORT BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The ordinary meeting of this Board was held on Saturday, at the Union Workhouse, when there were present: Mr P. Woodruff (in the ehair), Mr C. Lyne (in the vice-chair), Revs F. B. Leonard, J. C. S. Dar- by, E. Jenkins, J. Griffiths, and J. Davies Messrs T. Latch, W. Jones, (Cefnllogell), J. W. Bebell, P. James, S. Scard, E. Thomas, J. H. Hillier, E, Cross, J. G. ...

... ENGLAND AND SPAIN. The Paris correspondent of the Times tele- graphing under date November 28th, says: The Spaniards, to judge by a letter I have received from Madrid, are somewhat offended at thtf selection oi Lord Napier of Magdala, the Governor Of Gibraltar, as Envoy Extraordinary of Great Britain at the wedding of King Alfonso. Of course here is no objection to Lord Napier personally, Ten ...

... On Tuesday a new rectory, which had been com- pleted for the re&idence of the Rev. A. G. Morris, rector of Llanvihangel-with-Roggiett, was burnt to the ground. It appears that the police-officer in the station at Roggiett noticed a light reflected on the window of the new rectory about ten o'clock on Mon- day night, but supposed it to be from tire in the grate, as the building was so far ...

... The steamship Zeliner brought to Bristol on Wed- nesday, the captain and crew, 28 in number, of the Newcastle steamer Emblehope, abandoned on Saturday in the Bay of Biscay, in a sinking condition. The crew had a narrow escape. On Wednesday morning, Henry Bedingfield was ex- ecuted at Ipswich Goal for the murder of Eliza Rndd. RORKE'S DRIFT ON CANVAS. -With the permis- sion of the Colonel of ...

... Speaking on Tuesday at a Conservative dinner at Beeston, Lord Galway said he should like to express the feeling of regret, as representing that constituency, which must have come over them all upon hearing of the loss they had sustained by the death of that eminent nobleman the Duke of Portland. Though the Duke lived a great deal, owing to ill health, out of the world, those who had dealings ...