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A VISIT TO PITCAIRN'S ISLAND IN 1848

... requested leave of the captain to remain on board for the night, and a very pleasant evening was spent listening to their stories. - On the lth wre made for the shores and received a cordial recep- tion. The beach of Boauty Bay was lined with the inhabitants ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1850
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4593 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... motion of L.56,100 for the salaries and expenses of the Treasury, f Mr IV. Forbes moved a reduction of L.3096. This led to a short conversation, in which Colonel Thompson, Col. Sibthorp, the Chancellor of the Excbequer, Mr Hume, and Mr M'Gregor took part ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2304 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

IRELAND

... until a late hour on Saturday night. He received a great many informa- In e ions, the substance of which may be presented in a short eompase. - - Two farmers, returning to their homes, from Crossmanlen, along the CC in -CullovilleiRoad, immediately after ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1850
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1504 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

GLASGOW, MAY 31

... The gentleman he last named sold one prime horse for ;£45. In half-bred of horses there was also an excellent supply, but short de- a mand. A fine horse belonging to Mr. John M'Farlane ro brought £35. There were also a large variety of Irish StV aid other ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1850
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3238 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SCOTLAND

... conversions that had of late e taken place from Catholicism. Dr Barth was then heard, t! and e propriety of circlting short Bible stories and Chusrch histories in Scotland, whiich had been, in Ger s m tnany, a very successful method of dissemiuating Scriptural ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1850
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1663 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ST. NICHOLAS PAROCHIAL BOARD

... herself into the river.- Inverness Courier. A WIsTE CRow,-Who has not heard of the cameleon ehanginZ its colours, and the story of travellers disputing its real tintsa-the umpire declared it as black--as jet, and -was to prove it by producing the animal ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1850
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3996 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

GLASGOW, JUNE 7

... through gross carelessness. Droining.-On Sabbath afternoon, between four and five o'clock, a young man went into the river a short dis- tance below-the Glasgow Water Works, where there were no others bathing excepting a solitary companion. Hav- ing crossed ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1850
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2665 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

GLASGOW IN OLDEN TIME

... ses'bf. the aittient city, build- yfuri sag i- re opa i ~e to. his old. dowragol acqauaitances, olsfasiurto'rc over thie stories.o~foldein uinto.Uneliej- prsioo,1 bohieve that there atre few ofosir aged cititens to-ho tilb I0oono fela etain uandeffned ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1850
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3212 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

ENGLAND

... the Vieeroy, yester- day morning, a distance of 27 miles from Galway roadsteads, which i r she steamed in the wonderfullh short space of two hours and ten Im a minutes. I left her at 12 o'clock precisely, sod at I p.m. she was a 0e completely out of sight ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1850
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4187 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

TOWN-COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

... He asserted that the move- ment against Miss Short arose out of a conspiracy against her, !and th atc Mrs Kerr of Nelson's Monument was in the habit of Ivisiting certain Councillors and relating stories to them. which Ithey believed. Several Conocillors ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1767 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Foreign Intelligence

... Dipratce. [This story which, as the writer says, is too good to be lost, is also, unfortunately. 'too good to be true. Mrs Loadon writes regarding it to the 31orainyg Cltronclc-, as follows:-, it really seems a pity to spoil SD good a story; but the truth ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2994 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

INDIAN RAILWAYS

... 475 shares. As the average price of an allotment, each allot- ment giving a county vote, is L.25, it will be seen that in a short period more than half a million sterling will be ex- pended in the purchase of forty-shilling freeholds, a prettv convincing ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1850
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2831 | Page: 3 | Tags: News