... was large -are very satisfactory, as the follow- ing figures will ?? August 1 to December 31, 565 seamen were discharged at Dunkirk, receiving wages amounting to £8,291. 13s. 7id. Of this number, 203men were transmitted to the UTnited Kingdom, the net total ...

... THE DISASTROUS FIRE AT : 7 DUNKIRK. LOSS OF TEN LIVES. - [IFm a Spcar Correspondent.] Dusrsra, May 27.-The destructive fire which broke out yesterday afternoon in a petroleum refinery at Coodekerque, 'a village situated about two miles from this town ...

... being honoured in effigy is explained by the quaint legend of the Dunkirk Reuze, which is as follows:- Reuze wasa Scandinavian pirate,who, in the early days of the history of Dunkirk, when the place was a struggling hamlet of fishermen's huts, had become ...

... ? .ttj tions for the executioa of the convention to he eventu 11 concluded. THE PORT OF DUNKIRK. Thecorrespor-dent forthe SYandaeisays-Adele= ...

... TnourAs Hsoitir , Roden Street, Nottingbam, ?? maker. I EDwAnD fIlAusRoN, P)unkrk Villa, Dunkirk, Lenton, .Nottingham, and GnOnao , UnS9, Claude Street, Dunkirk, trading a as Guorge Itoss and Co., at Park, Street, Lenton, joliars and Vaildere. ThoMAs ...

... he subsequently died. The Luke Bruce put into Dunkirk, whence her captain telegraphed information of the loss of the Durango to her owners, Messrs. R. W. Jones and Co., Neuirport. The Durango left Dunkirk for Genoa on Wed neday evening, with rails, and ...

... of Havre, of which the merchants of Havre are to provide 70,000,000. 17,000,000 francs are to be devoted to tha defence of Dunkirk; 7,000,000 to Dieppe ; and 1,800,000 Pecanip. Similar works are to be executed at Calais and Boulogne. The Moniiteur9 of the ...

... -in the awful manner already described. It is believed, however, that the lugger, which was named Le Pilate, and came from Dunkirk with a cargo - of dynamite, had only been partially discharged, and from the terrific force of the explosion ib is evident ...

... lining the sides with bricks, aad on March 26 the operation of filling it was com- menced, the water being let in from the Dunkirk Stop, absout a quarter OE a mile on the Birmingham side of the breach, where stop-planks were put in directly after the accident ...

... week towards the strike hands in Cumber- land and Durham. BgJTrSn S=EPDbNu AT DANKntL-The returns of the shipping trade of Dunkirk for the year 1891 assign to that port the first place in France for British tonnage. In 1891, 1.435 British ships, registering ...

... of the next day and nlight. It was not till one o'clock on the 22nd that a despatch was received from the Burgomaster of Dunkirk, who notified that the British steamer Warrior had picked them up at sea. The Gazette des lhruxzllae contains a description ...

... A SURVIVOR OF THE ENGLISH OCCUPATION. The Dunkirk correspondent of the Standard writes as follows :-Contemporaries of Napoleon's wars, of Wfater- loo, and the ensuing occupation of certain parts of - France by the allied armies are now almost extinct ...