... OUR LADIES' COLUMN. I The winter sales in the large drapers' shops have been among the events of the last week. Some hav. ing commenced a week earlier are already over. Swan and Edgar, Debenham and Freebody, Marshall and Spelgrove, Waterloo House, Howell and James, Gask and Gask, Peter Robinson and Co., and a host of other large firms have been clearing off their stick in preparation for a ...

... I STRANGE SHIPPING CASUALTY. A shipping disaster of a remarkable character haa taken place at the Newport (Mon.) Old Dock. Two iron steamers, the Primiis, with a cargo of 050 tons of pig iron, from Middlesbrough, and the Constancia, with about 900 tons of iron ore from Bilbao, were being taken into the lock on the night tide. The Constancia was first admitted and then the Primus followed. ...

... BLAENAVON. Special Services are being conducted in Primitive Methodist Chapel by Mr J. Challt)10 who is a very able preacher and earnest The attendance on Monday evening was large. The electric light is now in action at Blae'^H avon Works, and eeeuis to give satisfactof^H results it was used for the first time on FridO^H night. A uew locomotive steam crane has j«^^| arrived at these works, and ...

... CHIPS. I am informed that some people about Pont- newydd are of opinion that contributing liberally to a church fund absolves them from a multitude of sins, such as envy, hatred and malice, and all unchnritableness. It was my lot the other day to chronicle the fact of a would-be candidate for matrimonial honours not knowing the name of his bride-elect. But a woman who was lately taken into ...

... LLANGIBBY AND CHEPSTOW HOUNDS WILL MEET ON Tuesday at Treevre Hill, at 11 a.m.; Thursday at Llangibby Tollbar, Saturday at Slades, at 10.30 o'clock. ...

... ABE ARN. The Jubilee Singers gave a concert in English Baptist Chapel on Wednesday, the auspices of the Band of Hope. The inhabitants of this place were starl early on Sunday morning by the alarming that the North Colliery, Risca. had blovvu and many colliers and others at once wen1! their way to the pit to find that an explogi had taken place there. During the day 18 numbers of men passed ...

... SHED BY AN ALBATROSS.—The following is from the Sydney Daily Telegraph of 22ul November:— A singular story has been related to us by the master of the barque Gladstone, which arrived from London last Saturday. On the 221Ad of last month, while the vessel was in latitude 4 deg. south and longitude SO deg. oast, a seaman fell overboard from the starboard gangway. The barque was scudding along ...

... Yice-Chancelior Fox, sitting at his chambers in Old square, Lincoln's Inn, had before him Cn M m. day an application by the liquidator for the ap- proval of the court of a provisional coutract for the sale of the property, works, and business of the company to Mr. H. Robertson, for a sum £ 100,(100, of which was to be deposited within 17daysof the confirmation, and the balance to be paid ...

... T HEM E JIBE ES FOR BIRMINGHAM. SPEECHES BY MESSRS BRIGHT AND CHAMBEKLAIN. THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. THE CONDITION OF IRELAND. STARTLING MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. THE TACTICS OF THE TORIES. BIRMINGHAM, Tuesday Night.—This evening Messrs Blight and Chamberlain addressed their Constituents in the Town-hall, Birmingham, when there was a large attendance, admission being principally by ...

... THE ROMAN CATHOLIC POWERS AND THE POPE. [ ST. JAMEfI'g GAZETTE TELEGRAM.] BERLIN, Thursday.—I am informed on trust- worthy authority that Cardinal Jacobini has asked the Roman Catholic Powers whether, if the Pope were forced to leave Rome, their representatives at the Vatican would follow him, and also if, after his departure, they would take his palaces and churches under their protection, ...

... LOCAL PILOTAGE. The abstract of returns relating to pilots and pilotage in the United Kingdom, for the year ending December 31st, 1880, has just been issued. From it we are enabled to give interesting statis- tics relating to the pilotage at local ports. CARDIFF.—The number of first-class Channel pilots at Cardiff is set down as 72 second-class Channel pilots, 9; first-class port pilots, 5; ...

... .1.?? ?LUEHY A?cn?yt.—An inquest was held at the Castle Hotel, on Tuesday, before Mr W. H. Brewer, coroner, touching- the death of William Jelley, aged 21 years, who was killed in the lower deep pit, BIaiua, on the 20th instant, by a large stone falling- on him. John Williams stated that about half-past uve o'clock on Friday, just before leaving work, he and the deceased commenced to unload ...