... THE CREW SAVED BY THE ROCKET APPARATUS. On Friday night, about ten o'clock, when the sterm wa ...

... Alad named Jones, a son of Mr Evan Jones, Bryncocb, was on his way home from school on Friday, when his cap was blown into the Duffryn Brook. In attempting to regain it he fell into the water and was drowned. ...

... AGRICULTURAL NOTES. [BY A SOVTU WALKS AGRICULTURIST.) The deluge of rain that accompanied the gale of Friday last, coming on the top of the previous rain, has completely saturated the land, effectu- ally stopping all farm operations as regards tillage. A good bite of grass remains on the pasture fields, which will help the stock owner, and enable him to economise his root crop, though some dry ...

... INDIGNATION AT THE SENTENCE. Telegraphing on Wednesday night, our Man- chester correspondent says:—It would be difficult to exaggerate the feeling of indignation which is felt at the sentence passed npon the Rev. James Mackie. Organisations are springing into existence in all directions to promote petitions for a reduction of the term of imprisonment, and subscriptions for the family. A ...

... ^SWANSEA. TRESPASSING IN PURSUIT OF GAME.—Robert John was summoned for trespassing in pprsuit of eame on a farm occupied by Morgan Harry, and belonging to Mr Dillwyn.—A keeper,, named Fancourt, proved that defendant, with two grey- hounds, was crossing over land on which there ww ^wone,—-Fined 10s and costs, „ ...

... MAESTEG..ARVIH SUDDEN DEATH. — MRS HOWELLS, TOR»$^ ARMS, WIFE OF MR RICHARD HOWELLS, OVE5PJJIE»' J' Coegnant Pit, was taken suddenly ill on WE° day morning, and died early in the afternoon* ...

... LOCAL BOARD.—Mr Trubshaw presided over Tuesdays meeting of the Llanelly Board of Health. The bye-laws committee reported the completion of the work of revision on which they have been engaged for a length of time.—For the extension of the Mechanics' Institute premises (No. 1 scheme), the tender of Mr W. Rowland, at j3298 14s, was accepted.—The Medical Officer reported a death-rate of only 12j9 ...

... LARCENY AT THE COKE OVENS.—Atrthe police- court, on Saturday, Alfred Martin, John Henry Booth, and John Quinlanwere committed for trial on a charge of stealing a coat, a muffler, and 9s 4d from the person of Howell Evans, at the Ynisfach coke ovens. BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—At the meetiner on Saturday of the Mertbyr Guardians, under the presidency of Mr R. H. Rbys, the following calls on parishes ...

... NOTES. THE POPULAR ANTIQUITIES OF GLA. MORGAN. By HKNEY G. BDTTEEWOKTH. XII.-PONT-Y.PRYDD. An old Welsh writer tells that this name is written by travellers sometimes Pout-y-Pridd, sometimes Poni-y-Prydd, the first of which might be rendered the Bridge of Earth,' the last 1 the Bridge of Beautyueithor of tliem, however, making good sense in Welsh. The original designa- tion was Pont y ta pridd ...

... MILFORD HAVEN AND THE ATL AN TICPASSEN GER TRADE A short time ago it was announced that, in order to develop Milford Haven as a coaling- station, the authorities there bad offered to forego all port dues on vessels calling for coal, and to charge only half pilotage. This, in conjuction with the completion ot the Severn Tunnel, has given a new significance to Milford Haven in its rivalry with ...

... John Grubb Richardson, which is so pleasantly situated at a point where the county of the diamond meets the Yorkshire of Ireland, there was a good deal of excitement on Thursday last. From the prosperous town of Portadown, and also from adjacent districts of the two broadshires just mentioned, large uumbers of persons proceeded thence to witness the marriage of Mr Frederick Leverton Harris, ...

... For more than sixteen years the company which is still called after the late Madame Beatrice hat enjoyed a practical monopoly of a certain class of stage plays. No other company can compete witt Mr Frank Harvey's in domestic drama, a branch of art to which that gentleman has almost en- tirely devoted his great talent. Hit plota aN always simple, his main reliance being placed on a scheme of ...