... THE LABOUR CLAUSE QUES- TION AT NEWPORT. The action of the Newport Town Council In deciding to oppose the labour clause of the Alexandra Dock Bill was, at a meeting of the ratepayers of that borough on Wednesday even- ing, confirmed in a unanimous and decisive man- ner. His Worship the Mayor, who proposed the resolution for the expenditure of public funds in opposing tins inimical clause of ...

... THE PEMBROKE BOROUGHS. MILFORD, Thursday Night.—Contrary to ex- pectation, Mr Harben, one of the Conservative candidates, d:d not tarn up to address the elec- tors this evening, but has written to all influential Conservative to say that he intends doing so in August next, when things get a little more settled. The Milford Tories say they will not have Mr Harben at any price, and intend to ...

... On Thursday afternoon, Mrs Howel Gwyn, of Neath, laid the foundation stone of a church, to be called Holy Trinity, at Gorseinon, in the parish of Llandilo Talybont, where the only ac- coinmodation at present provided for Church of England members is a temporary structure near the railway station. The new edifice, designed by Messrs Taylor and Bath, architects, of Cardiff and Swansea, is ...

... GLAMORGAN & CARMARTHEN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION. The annual meetings in connection with the above association were continued on Wednesday in High-street Chapel, Merthyr, under the presi- dency of Mr Wm. Samuel, of Llaneilv. There was again a large attendance of delegates. At the morning conference, Mr RICHARD CORY (Cardiff), who was selected on the previous day to write next year's circular letter ...

... SWANSEA. POLICK I NTF.LLIGKNCE.At the borough police- court on Wednesday, a charge against John Harris, labourer, of staling a lowl was dismissed, —Five boys named Widding, Lansley, Walls, Evans, and Healy were fined 6s each for stone throwing, an offence which. according to a state- ment made by the chief c--net-able, La., of late been on the incre we. The DEATH FROM LOCKJAW —At the Swansea ...

... Fiiio.iT.— Before Judge B. T. WILUAIKS, Q.C. ALLEGED BREACH OF V»AKILANTY, Watkiuson v. Davies.—Tho plaintiffs in this case were Messrs George Watkiiison and Son, Fernhill Collory, Treharbert, represented by Walter H. Morgan, and the defendant, Mr D. T. Davies, llhiwfelen, Llantrissant (son of Mr Morgan Davies, farmer), for whom Mr David Rosser tl)peared.-Th(- claim was for £ 21 5s 2d, in ...

... SWANSEA. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Thursday, a man named Thomas Roberts, a fellmonger in the employ of Messrs Parry and Rocke, yarn manufacturers, Thomas Roberts, a fellmonger in the employ of Messrs Parry and Rocke, yarn manufacturers, who had come to his work ai usual at the skin- dressing yard, in the Strand, was seen to stagger and fall, and when taken up life was found to be extinct. He was ...

... Shortly before fi ve o'clock on Sunday evening, Mr Henry Houghton, landlord of the Beau- fort Arms, Chelsea, hired a boat, and went sailing down the river in company with a waterman named Frampton. All went well until off Pimlico pier, when the steam- boat Citizen C, dso going down the river, ran them down, upsetting the boat, and throwing the occupants into the water. Mr Houghton immediately ...

... PHILANTHROPIC ORDER.—The quarterlv meet- ing of the Caerphilly District of the Merthyr Unity was held on Saturday last fit the Rose of the Valley Lodge-room, at Cross Inn. All the delegates of the district were present. After transacting the business and auditing the ac- counts, the delegates sat down to a capital din- ner, which was highly creditable to Mr and Mrs Rees, the host and hostess. ...

... SUPERSTITION IN HAMP- SHIRE. At Bournemouth, on Saturday, a wom-tn nnmed Rhoda Burton, was charged under the Vagrancy Act with fortune-telling. The prisoner hawked lace and ed rriugs, and called at a house where the prosecutrix, Dinah Wilcox, was domestic servant, remarking to her that she appeared to be un- happy.. She added that it was about a young mail, ami that she could bring his love ...

... MOVEMENTS OF SOUTH WALES VESSELS. Scots Greys arvd Aden, coaled and proceeded for Genoa and Marseilles, 4th Free Lance arvd Marseilles, from Cardiff, 3rd lihosina arvd Port Said, from Cardiff, 4th John Marychnrch passed Dover, from Taganrog for Hull, 5th S W Kelly arvd London, from Jamaica, 3rd Thos Turnbull left Port Said, for Sulina, 2nd Cosmopolitan left Malta, for Glasgow, 3rd Earl of ...

... NEURATOTA, TOOTH-ACHE, FACE ACIIK, &C. -• Remarkable Testineooals daily to I lie eiffca.1 > Jlevan, Specific Proprietor 'V. CU-orue, P Swansea ...