Volume 2, Number 24
The supply of gas, dock policemanship, a drunken post-boy, a nocturnal treat, theft from the Silver Grill, a travelling tinker and Chung Ling Soo at the Newport Empire.
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Volume 2, Number 23
Jack Sheppardism by a Ribbon Man, General Tom Thumb visits Newport, an attempted highway robbery near Langstone Court, stealing 9 glasses from a pub and the need for an extra milking cow for schools.
Volume 2, Number 22
Paying for nuisances, a house for sale on King Street, the first burial at Newport Cemetery, a fire in Gold Tops, falling from a High Street window, the introduction of the parcel post, breaking a shop window and a domestic picture.
Volume 2, Number 21
Names of street and numbers of houses, Newport shopkeepers exposing their goods, throwing a stone, Mr Bolt's new hotel and the first shops lit by electricity.
Volume 2, Number 20
A lack of gum on postage stamps, a grand fete and gala on the Marshes, a proposed new public hall, a new street into Baneswell, a highway robbery by a soldier, overcrowding in Kear Street houses and fortune telling.
Volume 2, Number 19
Newport nuisances, the need for a shelter at Llanwern Railway Station, a hungry thief, a dutiful daughter, cutting off a wife's nose, the Cherry Fair, the Newport gaol of 1835 and Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.