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.
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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.
Volume 2, Number 18
The illuminated clock on High Street, a fire at Maesglas Farm, Cordey's Perfumery List, man fined for being drunk in his own pub, the need for hydrants on Gold Tops, the 'Egyptian darkness' of Barnard-town and attempted self-destruction.
Volume 2, Number 17
A destructive fire on High Street, landlady falls out of a window of the Old Green Hotel, the Bath and West of England Show of 1888, footbridges across the Usk, keeping a game cock and On This Day in 1863.
Volume 2, Number 16
A three day bazaar at the Wesleyan Chapel, stealing fowl, a pigeon match in Crindau, a 'rogue and a vagabond', the paper selling nuisance and Maoris visit Newport.
Volume 2, Number 15
Sturgeon in the River Usk, house on Lliswerry Common for sale, the Carpenters Arms Club, a good natured simpleton and a dishonest tramp, the Battle and the Breeze pub, a hubbub in the market and a voracious cat.