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The Hurricane in the West Indies

... pictures reproduced from photographs, which demonstrate only too clearly the result of the terrible storm which raged in the West Indies on Saturday, September io, wiping out whole villages and towns, wrecking large portions of cities, and creating fearful ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1898
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 251 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

BRITISH ENTERPRISE IN THE WEST INDIES

... BRITISH ENTERPRISE IN THE WEST INDIES. Now that the question of admitting Continental bounty-fed beet-sugar into this country on equal terms with British-grown cane-sugar is occupying the attention of Parliament and the general public, and at a time when ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 817 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GREAT DISASTERS IN THE WEST INDIES

... THE GREAT DISASTERS IN THE WEST INDIES. On Sunday Sept. 11, a terrible hurricane visited St. Vincent and Barbados, doing fearful damage to life and property, and rendering thousands homeless. THE BAT, KINGSTOWN, ST. VINCENT. 1. A. _ n 1;, it, 11 1 THE ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 47 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WORLD OF SPORT

... Jenkyns, the well-known half-back, in a very small and now extinct Birmingham club. CRICKET. Lord Ilawke's team for the West Indies, which leaves England on Jan. 13 next year, contains some well-known players and some players who are not well known; but ...

Published: Wednesday 02 December 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 963 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LATE SIR GEORGE BADEN-P WELL, K.C.M.G., M.P

... travelled, often on important inis.-iotis of State, in almost every part of the habitable globe. T I o Austialhis, Canada, the West Indies, South and West Africa, onr Mediterranean possessions, were as well known to him as his own native land, lie saw, with unerring ...

The Challenger Expedition Medal

... 1876. During these three and a half years she had cruised over 68,900 miles. The route was by Madeira, the Canaries, the West Indies, Nova Scotia, Bermudas, Azores, Cape Verd, Fernando Noronha, Bahia, Tristan d'Acunha Cape of Good Hope, Ker- guelen, Melbourne ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1895
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 480 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

THE HOUSE OF TATTERSALL

... founder the business grew to be the great medium of traffic in racehorses for England, Ireland, France, America, and the West Indies and it has maintained this position to the present day. This Richard, who died in 1795 at the age of seventy-two, was succeeded ...

Published: Wednesday 16 March 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 537 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

THE TURTLE KING

... Is the supply steady Yes the regularity of the demand has caused arrangements to be made at Kingston, the centre in the West Indies, by which the former precarious conditions have been overcome. Schooners, which capture the turtle with the net, take them ...

A MAN WHO HELPED TO MAKE INDIA: HOW GILLESPIE BECAME THE HERO OF VELLORE

... exclaimed If Colonel Gillespie be alive, he is now at the head of the 19tli Dragoons, and God Almighty lias sent him from the West Indies to save our lives in the East. The mutineers had also seen the rider, and, recognising him as an English officer, fired ...

Published: Wednesday 07 December 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2067 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

Article

... when we went down to the Metapedia river for salmon we again got nearly devoured. Though I have been in Ceylon, China, the West Indies, Mexico, and one or two other hottish places, they none of them produce the absolute fiends that Canada seems ti rejoice ...