The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-11-10 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

STEEL FOR RAILWAY PURPOSES. IMPORTANT INVENTION.  Leading gentlemen connected with the North Eastern Railway Company, who were in Clevehnd on Tuesday, made a statement of the greatest importance to the railway interest, and also to the iron trade throughout. the world. It seems now to be ce, t,ain that the experiments which have been carried OD by Mr. Isaac Lowthian Bell, M.P., under the auspices of the North Eastern Railway Company, and which were some time since hopefully spoken of by the chairman of the company (Mr. Leeman) for the production of a cheap and durable iron rail, have been singularly successful. It is confidently affirmed that iron rails, more durable even than steel rails, can ' be produced by the new process at much less cost—at a price, in fact, but per ton in excess of that of ordinary iron rails. Considering that steel rails when worn are worth little, and that this new rail will be worth two-thirds of its original value for reconversion, the longagitated question of iron r steel would seem to be determined. The value of this discovery to Cleveland will be incalculable, as the large anbatitution of steel for iron rails has been most disastrous to her leachip: industry,  SHIPPING DISASTERS AND LOSS OF LM  Reports were received in Liverpool on Monday of a terrific cyclone having passed over Calcutta and the vicinity on Saturday. Great damage to shipping he regained. The fine Liverpool ship, Prince Waldemar. ltiOS tons, which left Liven:peel on the 22nd .luly for Calcutta, was caught by the hurricane and driven I on shore at Sands Head, at the mouth of the Calcutta river. She became a total wreck, and only four out of a crew of thirty hands were saved. The captain's wife and his two children were on board. The names of the survivors have not yet been received. The Prince Waldemar was a new colonial-built ship, and this was her first voyage. She was owned by Messrs. Moran. Galloway, and Co., of Liverpool. Reports of serious damage to shipping generally have been received. The steamer Moulmein lost her funnel and foremast. The British Statesman, from Liverpool, had her fore and main mast- and wizen topmasts carried away and her bulwarks considerably damaged. The Scottish Chieftain lost her fore and main topmasts and her wizen topgallant mast. The Liverpool ship Ghazeepore was totally dismasted about 200 miles south of Saeger. A later despatch front Calcutta reports the ship Canon Harrison totally dismasted, the Lady Octavia partially dismasted and with cabins and bulwarks damaged, and the Russia with topgallant masts gone. A telegram from Chittagong states that tbe Tidal wave, Oceans, and Edourd and George were all driven ashore there.  The West Indian and Pacific Steimship Company's steamship West Indian, which bft Liverpool on Sunday for Barbadoes, &c came into collision yesterday morning off Holyhead with the outward-bound ship Delia 0. Yates, from Liverpool toMatanzas. The latter vessel was so severely damaged that she sank shortly afterwards. The crew were talien off by the West Indian and landed at Holyhead. The steamer sustained comparatively slight damage, only her upper bow plates being injured.  A model of Dr. Rutherford's plan for raising the Vanguard is now on view in the Central Exchange Art Gallery, ewcastle-on-Tyne.  Robert Carey, labourer, was, on Monday, charged on remand before the Norwich magistrates wounding his wife in the throat with a razor, and with attempting to commit suicide. He was committed for trial.