... Total Jottings. At the annual meeting of the Devon Dock, Pier, and Steamship Company, to be held at Exmouth next Tuesday, the directors will recommend a dividend of five per cent on the ordinary stock. Neither the report nor the accounts convey much ...

... she &abed, with something of her ordinary calm. . . . . . I could guess, interjected Rachel. You are going to see the Pier, put in Agnes. '• Have you not bean there ? No, I have been at the Greenroom Shore. You were there this morning bathing ...

... those at present staying in Torquay in a liberal manner ; for what with tennis and bowling greens, concerts on the Princess Pier every evening, occasional visits of military bands, and delightful steamboat excursions along the coast, there is little to ...

... the Council on Tuesday, when Councillor Thomas, chairman of the Harbour Committee, reported that the strengthening of Haldon Pier, which had been estimated to cost £2,000, had actually been accomplished for £1.200. Alderman Bovey and Councillor Appleton ...

... Sunny Margate, as the Londoners love to call one of their favourite seaside resorts, had only 44 3 hours credited to it, and Hastings' return was almost identical, viz., 441. Such returns as these should be made widely , known, because statistics sent out ...

... ambulance work is carried out at the front, and another squad, under Company Sergt. Major Shapcoto made • barrel pier raft very cleverly. This pier raft was on the same model as that which General Buller uses to cross the Tugela. At the conclusion of the ...

... physical exercise forme so importaot • part Neter eon of the parish Is in W Ir e il4well sar ii• ch rt e s?rit se Scarbere, Hastings, Let:mington, Harrogate, which a person may shelter for a few hours et us see if some of . those whe are always it te r a ...

... a British public. Now we want a band. When we had one we never went near itnot even when it played on the end of a draughty pier in the middle of winterbut now we have none we want it. When a baby cries for the moon nothing in the world would astonish ...

... experience, and Clacton, Bath, Hastings, Brighton, Rhyl, Lland udno, and Southport, have each forwarded to our contemporary a record of their sunshine for February. The enclosure of the space at the bead of the Princess Pier, where concerts are given during ...

... from the added areas of Chelston and St. Marychurch ? They wore practically chucking 20 sovereigns out so the back of the pier every day of the 365 which constituted the year. It was suggested that they should ask firms to state what kind of a building ...

... some of the winter evenings. The Piers Committee have resolved to call upon the Mutuscopic Company to remove the debasing and demoralising titles affixed to their machines upon and in the vicinity of the Princess Pier, and have thereby won the approval ...

... tome years ago, when a private company_ pro p geed to construct a pier on the Torbay Road. It was and that the beautiful view of the bay would be spoilt. But what did they see now —a pier which gave pleasure to thousands of people, and, as far as he knew ...