... trench a mass of chalk and fiint concrete, puddled in an adjacent pit, is run, and then a number of brick piers are built into the concrete bed. The piers rise considerably above the ground level, and upon them the wooden under-frame of the hut is fixed. This ...

... fire hrigade was quickly called to a fire which broke out on the premises of Messrs. G. and H. Green, wharfingers, St. Paul’s Pier Wharf, Thames-street. Mr. Huntly Drummond and Mr. James Carruthers, of Montreal, have given £40,000 each for the purchase of ...

... under my ususl heading of facts con in an, newspaper cutting ‘which has beer lent me, which shows that the ‘almost indecent haste to be *first” with asy important news was as great amongst the newspapers of sixty ysars ago as it is at the pressnt time. ...

... He would make the trip to Worthing after all A dozem bounds carried him to the head of the pier landing-stairs, “Too late, sir: they're casting off,” warned a pier hand. But, disregarding the words, he leaped down the jron stairs, sprinted across the landing ...

... manoer was the ri}-lu arranged on the oaken shell »s prevailed on Friday in &c homelier procession om Qaborne House to Cowes pier ; bat, unlike then, bearer pnns of NC.O.'s and mea of the Guards and tlonsehold Cavalry walked in file on each side of the ...