... the rate of 7iy per cent., and carry forward about /7,000. The following dividends have been declared by the directors of the respective public companies:- General Life and Fire Assurance Com- pany, lo per cent. Lion Fire Insurance, 5 per cent. Merchants' Marine Insurance, 2s. per share Alliance Marine Assurance, ios. per share. Sea Insurance Company of Liverpool, xo per cent. North ...

... _ 07CNEATH ER. 2 South England _ Yeter. a (with London 60- day ?? Chaooel). \ \ 50- X _ 30 Northerly or north - easterly l 40- 1 _ dull, foggy, some rain. 30.35. > / ~~20- X|2 °3 Readingo hy lo- ?? and ZAMBRA'S .7 Barometer. U 1. I DIVIDENDS DECLARED. The following dividends have been declared by the directors of the respec- tive public companies:- National Bank of Wales, 6 per cent. Universal ...

... Winds, increas- ing in force; cloudy gene- rally, with local mists, colder. 30.31. R eadingos by NEGRETTi and ZAIMERA'S Barometer. ...

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... E I P- _ ?? 70- South England 6o- ?? London A a t 60- _ Yester- and Channel). % ?? ?? Ho Sootherly and j! 30~ N 500 1 _ south - easterly 401 ?? ~winds, light ~~oo'i5 A Set ?? doll, someo sleet _ 5 l a_3°s i 9 or rain at tones. so ...

... alone in her residence, ho, Broad-street, *and, while in the act of warming some clothes the flarnes reached her dress, ,and on her .busband enlering several hours later he discovered her body lying across the hearth literally roasted to death. The body of a labourer named Kennard has been found lying dead, and frozen to the ground, on the road near Llanwyddyn, Montgomeryshire. The. deceased ...

... the ratio is on the increase. In ?? the total number of miles built in the United States was 87,801, and in I885 that figure had increased to 102,000 miles. During i886 the miles built numbered 8,648, which is greater than in any preceding year. For the current year, however, no less than X r,ooo miles of new line have been projected. The greatest activity has been shown in the south-western ...

... °- 3_ South England a9g~in !Xe/ter-so- day (with London SIo-0 Pi 28 ntsFGR')- and hannel). U ?? - Noon -a :L30SoUth-westerly and westerly breezes, mode- I ?? to fresh; 40- ?? as a whole, a -1 ?? ?? ?? 6y; NEnswTTI and 27 ~~ZkManA'S 27 Baromneter. HEAVY FAILURES IN THE CITY. The failure is announced of Messrs. Patton and Vickers, of Fenchurcr. avenue, London, trading as John Pattoi, Jun, and ...

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... I 0 k'V NOOA' 70O --zi1 IL il.on to-day 40-l _Ar-tesLerday 1,oc 20- I0 -a FOIR.C! to fiesh; d- AST OF TIlE WEATHER ISSUED AT r1 Al. TO-DAY. England (with London and Chamicel).-Southerly winds, moderate fair is a whole, eilder. ...

... Benjamin S. Phillips, of 17, Grosvenor-street. LORD COLIN CAMPBELL AT THE BARP Lord Colin Campbell is professionally engaged as counsel in a case bFFV Mr. Justice Kekewich to-day. The facts of the case are of no public intclvEt. PLAYING WITH DYNAMITE. A party of lads were playing in the vicinity of a colliery at Milis Green, Staffordshire, last night, when one of them, named John Gleaves, aged ...

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