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OUR NOTES AND QUERIES

... passing through some of the finest sceaery ?? will be opened, connecting the Md. 'land line at Dore and Tetley, near Sheffield, with the company's trunk line to Manchester and iverpool, near Chinley. The contractors arwe Messr Oliver, of BristoL As in the cse ...

Published: Saturday 19 December 1891
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1811 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE GALES AND FLOODS

... transmniSSiOn of messages. g D ClhRGE. OF STEALING A CHEQUE,-At the Sheffield See- n sica, on Friday, Robt. Taylor, plasterer, and lHy. Hfarrison, o i Inetruument maker, both of Sheffield, wavre indicted for i staigahnrreccu otevleo 536.9. hproperty nf Mfiss ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1877
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2378 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

News by the London Posts

... owingto thegreat auxiliarywhichthe company now have, and the considerable increase of mine and coal which their workings daily afford them. As soon as the engine was started, the resident director of the company, Roger Hopkins, Esq., named it te ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 4718 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

OUR NOTES AND QUERIES

... tahe action. But wshen railways bscama3E numerous, and heavy deodands were sometimeslevied upon locomotive engines, the companies saw the necessity of I defending themselves against the'capricee of jaries, and an t Act abolishing deodands received the ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1892
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2008 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

NORTH AND SOUTH DEVON

... proceedings since the formation of the company. W. Avery, Esq., presided. Mr. A. Rowz, the secretary, read the report, which set forth that at first it was considered equal to the completion of the Iworks to form a company of 900 shareholders, at £1O per lshare; ...

Published: Thursday 17 June 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2773 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

The Abyssinian medal about to be issued to the nary officers and men of tbe navy entitled The ironclads ceded

... opened. Compensation for a Railway Accident —On Saturday, York Assise, builder named Hansom sued the North-Eastern Railway Company for damages as compensation for the loss of his wife, whose death was alleged to have been caused by accident on the railway ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1870
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2187 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

WRECK OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL

... neces- sary relief.. Before he sat dosvn he would mention that at i tpeeting of the board of directors of the Steam Packet Company the suim of 501. had been unanimously voted for the relief of the sufferers. The directors, in so doing, felt that they were ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1840
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3555 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM

... thin steel sheets to £1c for stamping sorts. Sellers of steel in WVles, Barrow, and Cumuberlasd. and Neorth East Coast, end Sheffield reported on Thursday to Staffcrdiihiro buyers that many of them were prohibited from accepting ferther orders, the works ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1889
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1941 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

... Meeting of the Proprietors of the above Company was held on Wednesday last, at tile Merchants' Hail, Kiflgstreet. There was a very numerous attendance, including proprietors from London, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, and distant parts of the kine~don ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1839
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3549 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CHITCHAT AND CRITICISM

... tntarra~nu'n tho Thoa-ra if fa.an apan n.r g few nights. It is unnecessary to say anything of the attrao- tiveness of the company which appeared last night; they have already made their mark in Exeter, and fully sustained d their reputation yesterday evening ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1871
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3239 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... ovetlzat and torpedo netting put out, eentries doubled, and 9-pounder pivot guins loaded, &c. I A statementt comes from Sheffield -to the effeot that Instructions have recently been issued by the War office to commanding'offioers of Volunteer Corps throughout ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 1881
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2860 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE EPITOMIST

... decoyed from their homes. , Warhar tomutenced betwreen the North-Western - and the Manchester and Sheffield 'Ralgwsys at Manchester; the former company' doing all theycan to obstruct- the forwarding of~tbe traffic of the other at the South Junction. Chancery ...

Published: Thursday 03 December 1857
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1751 | Page: 7 | Tags: News