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NEWPORT. PRESENTATION AT MAINDEE.—On Friday even-, ing, the 12th inst., a very numerously attended meet- ing was held in the National School-room, Maindee, for the purpose of presenting the Rev. J. Tedman, curate of St. John's church, who is leaving the neigh- bourhood, with a testimonial.—Mr. Farr, being called to the chair, in a few brief remarks alluded to the object of the meeting, and called upon Mr. Edward Wells to make the presentation.—Mr. Wells expressed the pleasure he felt in performing the pleasing duty allotted to him,and spoke in a very com- plimentary terms of Mr. Tedman's labours in Main- dee referring especially to his labours amongst the poor, and the assistance he had rendered in the management of the school, and concluded his address by presenting Mr. Tedman with a silver pocket communion service, by Elkington, and a gold watch and chain, bearing suitable inscriptions.—Master W. McDaniel, one of the choir boys, then stepped for- ward, and on behalf of his fellow singers, presented Mr. Tedman with a gold pencil case.—Mr. S. J. Wood next rose, and expressed the great pleasure he had in presenting to Mr. Tedman, on behalf of the working people of Liswerry, with an oak writing- case, completely fitted up.—Mr. Tedman on rising to acknowledge the various gifts presented to him was evidently much affected. After thanking, in warm terms, the several donors for their kindness, he briefly referred to his labours in Maindee and Liswerry among the sick and poor, and in the schools, and con- cluded by expressing the deep debt of gratitude he owed to Maindee.-The meeting was subsequently addressed by Captain Clark, and by Mr. Lloyd, churchwarden, and was finally closed by a vote of thanks to the chairman. HIGHWAYMEN IN SOUTH WALES. An extraordinary case of highway robbery has lately occurred near Bridgend, Glamorganshire, where three men, with their faces blackened, stopped the mail-cart running between Maesteg and Bridgend, rifled the pockets of the driver, and made off with about Y,18 in money which they found on him. The version of the affair given by the postman, Herbert James, is to the following effect:—He left Maesteg at the usual time on Wednesday night, and was driving rapidly, but when about two miles out of Maesteg, and opposite an old ruin by the side of the road, three men with blackened faces jumped out of the ruined house. One of them seized the horse's head, and the other two jumped into the car before he had time to offer any resistance. They asked him Where was the sealed bag?" meaning, it appears, the one contai ning the money. He told them it was always sent by train now and not by him. They then rifled his pockets, and took from him every- thing he had excepting his watch, which they did not appear to think of. They found in his pockets between £ 17 and .£18, being money which he had collected from customers at Maesteg—for he is a shopkeeper occupying a good position at Bridgend. He, as soon as the men left him, drove on as fast as he could, and upon reaching Aberkenfig he telegraphed back an account of what had happened to Maesteg. When he reached Bridgend the greatest excitement prevailed, for the news had already reached there by telegraph. It is a fortunate circum. stance that he retained his presence of mind when ques. tioned with reference to the sealed bag," which was all the time under the seat where he sat, and which contained about £90 in cash. There was also another bag in the car, which contained cheques to the value of £2,000. The whole of the money that was taken was his own. The road from Maesteg to Bridgend is a very lonely one; for some miles it runs with thick woods on each side, A similar robbery was perpetrated near the same spot in the year 1847, when a cashier to one of the works in the neighbourhood, was driving from Bridgend to Masteg in a dog-cart with about £2,000 in cash, when suddenly he was stopped by two strong fellows, one of whom presented a pistol at the horse's head and shot it dead. They then robbed the man of the money and decamped. Since then, however, till the present outrage, the road has been free from such attacks. No clue has as yet been obtained as to the perpetrators of the crime. -♦ SINGULAR ACCIDENT ON A RAILWAY.—On Sunday evening a child, 12 years of age, from some unexplained cause, fell from the window of a third-class carriage of the 5.20 train from Cardiff near Abercanaid. Consider- ing the speed of the train at this point, it is difficult to accountjfor the child's escape from instantaneous death. The father, a collier, who had charge of the child, can render no explanation as to the cause of the accident. ♦

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