... CARMARTHEN COUNTY ROADS BUARD. THE TURNPIKE ROADS (SOUTH WALES) BILli; IMPORTANT MEETING*. A quarterly meeting fir the Carmarthen Coilfily Roads Board was held at the Shire-haiij Carrnaf- then, on Wednesday, Mr It. JennihgS) Geliydegj pfesidihg. and fchfefe being & large attendance of members. A very long discussion took place on fin appli- cation fro tit Mr J. Waddell, railway contractofi for ...

... Stone's Mill, Ripponden, near Halifax, owned by Messrs Joseph Wliiteley Rud Son, cotton spinners, was on Mijaday morning destroyed by fire. The cause supposed to have been the over-heating irf^the machinery soon after th*' engine started The damage is estimated a|, b-itweeu £ 15,000 aud £ 20.000, mainly covw^UjJ i'.»«v4uce. ...

... LECTURE.—On Monday evening an interesting lectnre was delivered at the Drill-hall by the Rev. J. Harris, of Abersychan. The subject was Shenkin Penydd, the eccentric preacher of Wales. The rev. gintleman told, in a very dra- matic manner, the principal events in the career of this distinguished evangelist, as well as tracing the Welsh in their origin, language, peculiarities, manners, And ...

... THE LATE CHIEF SECRETARY. Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish, whose un-1 « timely deaihwe announce this morning, was the a second son of the Duke of Devonshire, by Lady 1 BtaEche, daughter of the sixth Earl of Carlisle. i His lordship was bo £ n in 1836, and wag, therefore in his 46th year. He was educated at Trinity > ] College, Cambridge, and early took part in; political life. In 1879, he ...

... THE ABERCARNE COLLIERY EXPLOSION. On Wednesday a meeting of the trustees of the Abercarne Colliery Explosion Fund was held at the Mansion-house, when there were present Mr Thomas Cordes, of Newport, in the chair, Mr Alderman Grundy, of Manchester, Colonel Lyne, and Mr John Moses, of Newport, with Mr Edwin Grove, the secretary to the trust. The accounts submitted by the auditors were duly ...

... AT EIN GOHEBWYR. Y 8M rhai o'n gohebwyr yn ddfnyddio mor wad, fel y mae braidd yn.annichenadwy dar- llen eu eyfansoddiadau goddefed y cyfryw i ni awgryma y priodokleb o ddefnyddio ink Goefcega, Xfatawa.—Y mae ambell linell anystwyth yn y darn hwn, o ddiffyg gofal am yr aocen a' ewtan. ttyddwch ofalus am hyn. Cydymdeimlad a Mr a Mrs August, &c. Wrth gwrs yr ydym ya rhwymeddweydtu-un waith, fod ...

... Dr. John Brown, author of R°j> and his Friends, died at Edinburgh on Thursday morn- intr. and ...

... ARABI'S DEPOSITION. ALEXANDRIA, Monday,4.50p.m.—Ragheb Pasha, President of the Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs, to-day addressed the following letter to Sir Beauchamp Seymour;- Monsieur l'Admiral,— I have the honour to inform you that the military preparations which Arabi Pasha is at present carrying on are made against the will of the Khedive and his Govern- ment. Arabi Pasha has ...

... LOCAL. CHAPEL DEBTS. THE Nonconformists of Wales have often been tunted with the alleged magnitude of their chapel debts. It has been asserted by those not favourable to the spread of Dissent that chapel-building is taken in hand as a speculation pure and simple, a speculation that often turns out a poor one. Can any of the rarious sects of Nonconformists be blamed if, when they see a number ...

... MANSLAUGHTER AT LIS- WERRY. INHUMAN PARENTS SHOCKING REVELATIONS. An adjourned inquest was held at the King of Prussia Inn, Liswerry, near Newport, on Thurs- day morning, on the body of Rose Emma Bennett, an infant 20 months old, about whose death allegations had been made of neglect on the part of the parents. The coroner for the district, Mr W. H. Brewer, opened the inquest a week since, but ...

... THIRD CARDIFF STARR BOWKETT BUILDING SOCIETY.—The fifth appropriation meeting in connection with this society was held in the Swiss Hall on Wednesday. Mr R. Y. Evans presided. The register number drawn was 065, which en- titles the holder, Mr W. Sheehan, North William- street, to the advance of .S400 free of interest. ENTERTAINMENT.—The Boys' School-room, :at Canton, was crowded with an ...

... INQUEST.—On Tuesday afternoon Mr T. Wil- liams, deputy-coroner, held an inquest at the Bush Hotel touching the death of the lad Morgan, who, as reported in Monday's issue, died at the hospital from the effects of a blocking whu;h he received at the works. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death. ...