... PUESE.NTATIO.N BY TilE OF COSXAECWT, Very little ceremony was observed at Aldershot on August 24, when the Duke of Connaught presented the new Ashantee star to those men here who took part in the recent expedition. At noon the re- cipients, numbering nearly IjO, were drawn up, form- ing three sides of a hollow square, on the Corunaa parade ground, the same spot at which they were inspected ...

... A LETTER FROM TRill K HAM PA. Great activity now prevails in tho camp at Kosheh, All the sick camels have fairly recovered after their long rest, and numbers are arriving daily. Three squadrons of cavalry have been moved up from Sarkamatto, on the Dal Cataract. As soon as the steamers arrive things will be pushed on very rapidly, and no time will be lost. The telegraph line is being laid ...

... RBMAKKADLB INGENUITY. Between one o'clock and seven on the morning of October 11, a ticket-of-leavo man, who was in Penton- Tille Prison for an offence committed while he was enjoying the liberty earned by good conduct during a term of penal servitude, escaped from his cell through an opening which he had pierced in the wall. The corridor in which his cell is situated is almost at the top of ...

... Ox Wednesday, a public meeting was held in the 'estry of Zoar Chapel, for the purpose of presenting ertificates in connection with the Cwmaman Science tnd Art and Ambulance Classes. Mr. W. J. Heppell, vho presided, said that the ambulance classes had leen most successful for both male and female, as all rho sat for examination had succeeded in obtaining ertificates. An ambulance corps has been ...

... MR. W. LEWIS, Treharris, has a theory that Pontypridd might be supplied with water from the Merthyr system. When the new reservoir is completed, we shall have a million gallons a day, so to speak, for sale to the highest bidder. This quantity would be sufficient for a population of 50,000, and would supply Pontypriddand the Taff Valley down to Llandaff, together with Llanbradach and ...

... Leaves from the Merthyr Telegraph. VI. 1862.—The casual and uninterested reader of these records will note with pleasure the appear- ance, from time to time, ot the names of many who were prominent in the district at this time and who are still with us, or are represented by worthy successors. Perhaps one of the best- known of this period in our district was Mr. David Williams (Alaw Goch), ...

... MONDAY.—Before Stipendiary W. M. North, Mr. Matthew Truran, Mr. C. H. James, Mr. Thomas Williams, and Mr. T. H. Bailey. DRUNKS.—James Thomas, John Green, J. Barton, William Cross, Emmanuel Fox, Louisa Smith, David Harris, Michael O'Reilly, Edward Sweeney, John Morton, John Watkins, John Walker, Ellen McCarthy, Benjamin Jone«, Fanny Powell, David Effraim, Michael Linch, Thomas Barnham. James ■ ...

... GELLIGAER SCHOOL. The following boys from this school have passed the Cambridge local examinations as under :—Under 19 years honours; class III, R. P. Jones, Gelligaer A. J. Prosser, Treharris. Under 16 years, J. Jones, Brynmawr; G. D. Watkins, Brynmawr. Between 16 and 18 as juniors; J. Williams, Treharris. ...

... if.* Oherwydd diffvg gofod rhaid ocdi cyhoeddiad nifer helaeth o ddarnau barddonol. LLINELLAU COFFA. Am Mrs. Sara Scoitiekl I.-v, is. l'a le matj'r rho.yn jr-vyn ; ...

... Mr. Ritchie, speaking on the ,Aotti nit. at the Croydon Conservative Working Men's Club, defended the policy of the Government in regard to thll Armenian and the Venezuelan que,tion and ridiculed Mr. Asquith's recent assertion that the Liberal party is better equipped than the Conserva- tives by its history and composition for dealing with legislation affecting the working classes. ...

... THE STRIKE AT PLYMOUTH COLLIERIES. Strike pay v.as on Saturday distributed to the men formerly employed in the Oft. West at the Abcrcanaid Pit, who recently came out through the management declining to pay them the same cutting price as was paid for working the same seam in their other pit at Duffryn. ...

... A STORY IN A STORM. BY GEO. MAXVILLE FENN. CHAPTER II. GRACE more than once took me to task about mf. coldness to James Hartley, for I was cold, though I I tried hard not to show it. It was impossible to be otherwise, for I could not forget the past; still he seemed to he keeping his word, and no lover could have been more attentive than he. Why, should I study myself ?' I said bitterly. She ...