... The of Dundee, hound from Beaufort for whien passed the Lizard on Tuesday, reported having spoken ou the 13th of March the barqtie3 Fairmoullt, of Windsor, Nova. Scotia, and Glenrath, of Leith. ...

... GAS AND WATER COMPANY'S MEKTING.— A meeting of the Bargosd Gas and Water Company was held on Thursday afternoon at the Bargoed Junction Hotel. Mr Lewis Lewis took the chair.— i lie directors' report extended over the years 1382 and 1833, and showed that the capital account for the year 1882 was £149 14s 9d, and 1883, £5 10s. The profits were £4- Is 6d for 1882, and £55 14-s 6 1 for 1883. Steps ...

... MALICIOUS DAMGK. — On Satuidny before Messrs M. B. Williams and J. Glasbrook, and Dr. Paddol1-1. tramp named Webb was sentenced to a month's hard labour for wilfully damaging some shrubs belonging to M. Strick, of Harold's Moor. OBSTRUCTION.—For obstructing the thorough- fare by leaving a horse and cart across the road near Cockett Church, a youth named Thomas Morgan was fined 5s. MR CHAPMAN'S ...

... SCHOOL BOARD.—Lord Dynevor presided at the monthly meeting of this body, which was held at the Town-hall on Tuesday. It was de- cided to issue precepts for L606, at the rate of 4d in the L, nayable by the 1st of June.—For the post of infant mistress at the Brynlioi Schools, there were seven applicants. The post was con- ferred upon Miss H. Morgan, Hafod, Swansea. Gwilym Evans' quinine bitters. ...

... Sift,-It is really very pitiable to see the wriggling and twisting of the Churchmen over tl census. What does it matter to a few hundreds either way ? The broad fact remains that they are very small in number as compared with Dissenters. Whether the proportion is as one to four, or whether it is one to four and an eighth or a quarter or a half, is of no consequence. They are simply splitting ...

... DEATH OF MR H. J. BYRON. — We have to record the death of Mr H. J. Byron, which took place on Saturday at his house in Clapham Park. The pulmonary complaint from which he suffered had compelled him to spend much of the winter at Hastings, where of late he had seemed somewhat better, and had, we believe, even attempted to continue his work for the stags. He had, however, long been missed from ...

... WRECK OF AN ATLANTIC STEAMER. TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. Lloyd's agents at Halifax cabled on Friday evening that the Belgian steamer Daniel Stein- mann, from Antwerp for Halifax and New York, had sunk of fSambro. Itisreportedthatfour passen- gers were saved, and about 90 drowned. The above steamer was owned by the Belgian White Cross Line Steamship Company, of Antwerp, She was an iron steamer of 1 ...

... Gwilym Evans' quinine bitters. Cablegram from Ame- lica :—Last consignment to hand They are much appre- ciated. 6S522 ...

... THE SUNDAY CLOSING QUESTION. LLANTRISSANT SCHOOL BOARD. The Llantrissant School-board on Friday passed a resolution approving of the English Sunday- closing Act, but expressed an opinion that it would be advisable that the bona fide traveller exemption clause should be omitted from the measure. ...

... Viscount Newark, second Conservative candi- date for South Leicestershire, wa.s introduced to the constituency on Monday night by Mr Pell, M.P., at the inauguraldinncr of the Hinckley Con- servative Association. Responding for the Houses of Parliament, Mr Pell referred to the recent defeat of the. Government on local taxation, and said that Mr Gladstone practically told him be should take no ...

... NEATH. ASSAULT.—At the Guildhall, Neath, on Mon- day, before Messrs Rowland Thomas, J. H. Rowland, and William Leyson,—John Jenkins, of Melincrythan, was summoned by Jennet Rees for assault.—Mr W. H. David appeared for the defendant.—Fr^m the evidence it appeared that defendant and his father were having an alter- cation, when complainant, who is defendant's sister, interfered, and received a ...

... ABERGAVENNY. SUNDAY-OPENING OF THE CASTLE GROUNDS.— At the usual monthly meeting of the improve- ment commissioners, on Wednesday—Mr J. Bishop in the chair—it was stated that no suitable application bad yet been received for the tenancy of the refreshment-rooms at the castle, and tenders were invited for catering for .the public on Easter Monday. The horticultural society's application to hold ...