... A DANGEROUS VOYAGE.. The 8.8. Australia, of Hamburg, 3,000 tons, gross, 1,666 tons net register, Captain Franck, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Sunday with her cargo shifted. She is owned by Mr Edward Carr, ana was from New York for Plymouth and Ham- burg, with general cargo of American produce- the major part being wheat-and fifty passengers. In crossing the Atlantic she encountered some very ...

... RISCA. .SAOJKJN'O ^ATAT, AOCII>KXT.OO acc^leut iiappeued at the railway statiua, wh eh eai,s:u tbe alt*r},)s,t iir. ediate death of n young ej,n named DoWueis, v- je of a pls^ei-tr living. i. The deo^asecr 0. eDt to Rise to see a friund, and wa? about returning si-ne when hi life was cut sli rt- Whilst crossing ti,e iit'.e & passing engine knocked poor feiiow down a at! ae^ost decayitated- ...

... Two men, named Joseph Brady and Joseph O'Han- lan, were arrested in Dnblin yesterday, for alleged complicity in the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke. After having been taken before two magistrates, they were discharged. The police are said to he in possession of several important facts con- nected with the murdere. ...

... News has just reached Liverpool that the Liver- pool barque Laugrigg Hall was wrecked on Dec. 15 on Tuskar, 24 of the crew being drowned. The ship was under the command of Captain Williams, and only left the Mersey on Thursday for Calcutta. Two men, apparently the only survivors of the crew, were washed ashore in a lifaboat at Carnsore, on the Irish coast, in an exhausted condition. The ...

... The Manc^8ter Police last week apprehended, f on a charc of frarid' a man, named Geo Kemp, a who unr^ thenamesof Xenneih and .oran, had adverted for persons to make waterproof aprons, and had demanded 4. deposit of Is. tiom each ap- pliant. He occupied a small house and shop con- t tsining very little furniture. Over One thousand C letters were delivered at his address that day, I the ...

... MIDDLESBOROUGK, Thursday.—The pig iron trade has been, as was the case at Tuesday's market, very quiet this week. There has not been such slackness apparent for a long time, demand being almost nil, and there being no desire to do business. Consumers now begin to think that the chances are in favour of prices being lower all round, not only with pig metal, but also with manufactured iron. In ...

... SHOCKING DEATH FROM EXPOSURE.—On Thurs- day morning a woman was seen lying on the road- side, adjacent to the Heathcock pond, by some passengers in the London and North Wester* train. P.C. Lewis at once went to the spot in- dicated, and found the woman lying in a semi- conscious state. She was at once removed to the Heathcock Inn, and Dr. Fitzhenry was sent for. It was then found that the ...

... Charles Hensbrry, aged 13, and Walter C.UTOI, 15, were drowned whilst sliding on a, pond nt Ballyfale, County Waterford, on Sunday, through the ice giving way. The bodies were recovered. ...

... RESUMPTION OF THE INQUEST. The inquest upon the seven victims of thl dynamite explosion at the Pembrey Works of the Explosives Company., Limited (formerly the Stow- market Company), which took place on the 17th of November, was resumed before Mr Jamei Rowlands, coroner, on Tuesday, at the offices of the White Lead Works Company, Burry Port. Colonel Majendie, C.B., chief inspector of ex- ...

... SWANSEA BAY SIGNALLING STATION. MIJMELF.S LIGHTHOUSE, Friday. Wind, Si, Weather, hazy. Passed East—schooner Polly Whit- taker, of Fleetwood; steamers Neath Abbey, of Swansea Cora Maria, of Cardiff. ...

... The following patent record for South Wales and Monmouthshire for the week ending Dec. 19 is supplied by Mr N. Watts, A.M.I.C.E., office for patents, 4, Crockherbtown, Cardiff:- Applications for letters patent were made by William Morgan, Pontypridd, for miners' safety lamps; by Jonn Williams, Cardiff, for improve- ments in the furnaces of steam boilers and of furnaces for any other purpose ...

... GALE AND SNOWSTORM VESSELS ASHORE ON THE COAST. LOSS OF A nRIG AND ALL HANDS. About six on north- easterly gale, the steamer Gladys, of Whitby, from Antwerp to Sunderland, was driven on to the rocks at the latter port. She cams so near the quay wall that the crew, numbering 21. were rescued. She will probably become a total wreck. Two vessels went ashore at Noswick on Tuesday morning in a ...