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THE BRITISH BOATMAN

... we hold the boatmen of our watering-place in our love and honour, and are tender of the fame they so well de- serve. . . . It is curious, too, to observe a na- tural ease of approach that there seems to be between the children and the boatmen. They mutually ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1851
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 657 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

DEATH BY HORNETS

... Now, as the boats of these Enropean surveyors were passing up the river a cloud of these insects overwhelmned them; the boatmen as w~ell as tle .two gentlemon jumped overboard; but, alas! Mr. lBoddington, who swain and luad sdiuceeded in clinging to ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1859
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 641 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY

... railway speed to Carskey Bay -a distance of two miles-and here the boatmen were waiting steadily at their post. With all haste the now happy pair embarked in their light skiff; the boatmen plied their brawny arms; and the vessel's prow cut through the blue ...

Published: Friday 27 August 1852
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1214 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Fashion and Varieties

... the sturdy boatmen. After a long delay, all got safely to the steamer; many, however, wvell soaked witti tite spray, others a good deal frightened, and all somewhat shorter of cash, which had been trans- ferred to the pockets of the boatmen, who reaped ...

DOWNPATRICK, BELFAST, AND DUBLIN RAILWAY

... rather close in shore, awaiting orders for her port of delivery. About ten o'clock, on Wednesday, the atten- tion of the boatmen and other parties on shore were attracted by loud screaming from some person on board -the ship, and, on examining the vessel ...

Published: Monday 26 June 1854
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1031 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... arrived at MAarseilles on 28th. She left the Turkish capital on 18th. The Captain of the port of 'y'rebizond, as well as the boatmen, are all imprisoned as a reparation for the outrage on the ilussian seamen. Thle Montenegrin Prince Daniel recrossed the Turkish ...

Published: Monday 29 September 1856
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 484 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A PEARL-FISHING EXPEDITION

... renter, as the case might be ; the remaining fourth was shared amongst the boatmen, the divers, the Tandal and the boat-owner; the divers receiving twice as much as the boatmen, and the owner rather more than the divers. The Government oysters were carried ...

Published: Monday 21 April 1851
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4233 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

BELFAST POLICE COURT.—YESTERDAY

... defence that they had a perfect right to be there, as they were passengers by the steamer, The constable proved that they were boatmen, and pilots, whom he was in the habit of meeting regularly every morning. A line of 20s and costs was inposed. WrmlTranouSE ...

THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS

... vatch to one of the boatmen, and said thathe would take a batll; but his naummer was so strange that the men refeseul bis pre- sent, prevented him fromt bathing, and brought bliln bacl. About lialf-an-hiour after, one of the boatmen siw thle Man, who was ...

Published: Thursday 10 June 1858
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1304 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

FETE FOR THE WORKING CLASSES, ON QUEEN'S ISLAND

... Many persons crossed the river by the -larbour passage-boats, in which their safety was most carefully attended to by the boatmen, whose appropriate and particularly clean dress 'was very muclmmuladmired. Time mill-wvorimers, who composed the great majority ...

Published: Monday 22 September 1851
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 661 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Shipping Intelligence

... down the Whitgift ferry-boat, on lriday. nighlt last. Thlcre were six hersons its the beot, iielidilig two ferryincis. The boatmen aid two other plersons were drowened; the reillillalg twso 11m(1 l itarrow eseape, but ere salved. [IIY Al AQ 1N t IC TgtL:CIt ...

Published: Tuesday 01 December 1857
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 537 | Page: 4 | Tags: Commerce 

COMMISSION OF OYER AND TERMINER, DUBLIN

... and the prisoner went over to this is- land, and were conveyed thither by some boatmen connected with the neighbourhood. On Sunday, the 6th September, they went to the boatmen and arranged with them, that they were to be taken over to the island the next ...