Volume 1, Number 17
The town's wooden paving, being drunk and "obstropulous", six week's hard labour for stealing trousers, stealing a spoon and a shocking discovery in the river Usk near the St Julian's Inn.
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Volume 1, Number 16
The Russian Gun, a tee-totaller arrested for being drunk, rook shooting, the ‘Greatest Ventriloquist in Europe’ visits Newport, the Monster American Circus and an immense broccoli.
Volume 1, Number 15
The introduction of the "Queue" at the Lyceum Theatre, the stench funnel on Stow Hill, the quality of water in Pill, mud on Corporation Road and what to do with the Russian gun at the Cattle Market.
Volume 1, Number 14
A month on the treadmill, stealing water, a drunk little old Welshman, the fire engine committees report, nuisance out-of-town-girls and bears in Maindee?
Volume 1, Number 13
Breaking the Sabbath in Caerleon, taking a nap in a hay loft, boy steals 20lb of bacon and complaining about the speed of public coaches.
Volume 1, Number 12
Driving too far to the weighing machine, the dangerous and filthy state of pavements, Jack the Cripple, a stolen Merino coat, a foot race at Rogerstone, a runaway horse and the Zanettos play the Empire.