... J IRE. A.bout eleven o'clock on Friday evening the inhabitants of Cwmavon were disturbed by the ringing of tlie fire-bell, and it was afterwards found that one of the furnaces of the tinworks had set fire to an adjoining stack, and the fire ex- tended to the roof of the works, and would have proved serious but for the tiin-dy assistance of Sergeant Lougber and his staff, who soon got the ...

... T::K TRANSVAAL BOKR WAR SIEGE or PRKTOKIA.—.Re?. Goo. Weavind hasbeen nine years ia the Tno'.svaai as a We'eyan Missionary. lie Lectures to-niorr e.v at 8 p.m. Assembly Koooa Is. oi. and Is ...

... THE Niew SKRIAI. STORY, All Sorts and Con- ditions of Men, by the popular novelists, Messrs Walter Besant and James Rice, commenced in tl.« j Cardiff Times and SotitA Wales Weekly Nrw of Friday and Saturday, Jauuary 6 and 7. FLORAI, BELL Liyuin DKNTIKRIGB.—Superiority and excellence over all. Unequalled for cleansing, preaerving, and beautifying the teeth jpttns. It removes tartar, hardens ...

... FRESH SLIDING SCALE ARRANGE- MENTS. We have authority for stating that at the Femdale Collieries, Messrs Davies, the employers, and their men, some thousands in number, have entered upon fresh sliding-ncale arrangements. The old scale terminated at the close of last year. The new scale will date with this year, and will be operative for two years—that is to say, from the 1st of January, 1882, ...

... SWANSEA HARBOUR. The statement of trade to be submitted to the Swansea Harbour Trustees at their monthly meet- ing to-day (Monday), shows a slight increase in the coasting trade of the port in December last, but a great decrease in the trade with European ports and those beyond Europe. The net result is a falling off of 2100 in the shipping rates re- ceived as compared with December, 1880, the ...

... BOROUGH POLICE.—At Newport Town-hall, on Wednesday—before Messrs R. F. Woollett and E. J. Grice—Daniel Rees, second engineer on the steamship Rhiwabon, was fined 10s for illegally landing lglb. of cigars and 10 ounces of tobacco, on the previous Thursday.—Amelia Powell, for assaulting Matilda Edwards in South Market- street, on Sunday night, was fined 10s.—James Bushell, a seaman, was charged ...

... RHYMNEY. THE CALVINISTJC METHODISTS AND MR D. DAVIES, M.P.—Mr William Griffiths, Blackwood, visited Brynhyfryd Church, on Thursday hist, as a. deputation from the monthly meeting, and stated the claims of the funds on the churches. The friends unanimously resolved to co-operate, and the deputation was given to understand tliat the church at Brynhyfryd would most likely collect £ 30 towards the ...

... The Investors' G.nrJian gives the following particulars of new local companies:— MORDEY, CARNEY, AND COMPANY, LIMITED. Under an agreement of the 20th December this company will take over the goodwill and effects of Messrs Moruoy and Carney, carrying on busi- ness as shipbuilders a.nd repairers, and mechanical engineers, at Newport, in the county of Mon- mouth. The company was registered on ...

... (Before His Honour Judge HERBERT.) v. DULONG.—His Honour gave judg- ment in this case, which came before hun at the last court. The plaintiff a Spanish mer- chant, and defendant a Freach captain. The claim was for the value of a deck cargo, which the defendwit threw overboard from his vessel tempestuous weather to save the ship and the rest of the cargo, the latter being the plaintiff's pro- ...

... LOCAL LIQUIDATIONS. fFROM Tl'ESDAV NIGHT'S GAZETTE.] John Williams, 3. Market-street, and Chapel- street, Pontypridd, grocer, trading as J. Wil- liams and Company. Wm. Green, of Pontyrhan Vicarage, near thyr Tydvil, cl -rk in holy orders. BANKRUPT. James Raphael, of 35, Crichton-street, Cardiff, tailor, draper, and outfitter. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. John Lloyd Jones, at the date of the petition, ...

... The Executive Committee of the National Board of Health have declared the existence of smallpox epidemic in the United States. Au accident occurred on Saturday evening to a coods train entering Chelmsford Station. The axletree of ono truck broke and many others were scattered over the line. The was ssrio-.sly 1 shaken, but the driver was uninjured. The Duke of Edinburgh, who bail. I ron the ...

... ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE NEAR HYDE PARK. At the Marvlebone Police Couit, en Jpn. 19. Fn- Fanselow, 24, waiter, was charged on remand wiw shooting Clara Annie Byfor.. a tiome.-■ ic -.en-m- :t 1, Southwick crescent, Hyde Park, with a revolver, (n the 19th of December, w uh intent to m ...