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... -Emigration.-The ship Prince of Wales, 1,451 tOllS, Captain J. Bippon, left Plymouth on Saturday, for Adelaide, with 52 married men, 54 married women, 144 single meB, 72 single women, 33 male children, 28 female children, Government emigrants, under the charge of Mr. T. S. Jou, surgeon superintendent, and Mies GlaByille, matron. The skips Strathnaver, pas- senger snip for Sydney, and Ida. ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

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... of a village choir is a good opening for a tailor, as we should be to learn that repairs neatly executed was the proper oalling of a Mend-elsaohn. ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 28 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

.HINTS UPON GARDENING

... HINTS UPON GARDENING. KITCHEN GARDEN. —Get manure on to the plots that are to be sown or planted this month and next, and dig the ground over deeply, and leave rough. Level down the ridges of ground prepared last month, so as to be ready to sow and plant as soon as weather permits. Plant the main crop of potatoes where the ground is well drained at once, but on damp soils wait till next month. ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1169 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

OUR MISCELLANY. ---

... OUR MISCELLANY. Mr. Merrlman.-t confess it was a laughter- moving exhibition. His enigmas and bon-mots were not, strictly speaking, of the first order. As, for in- stance, when the lady in the richness of her classic beauty was resting on her horse, Brown would address the gentleman with the whip and with the gold band down his trousers: I say, sir! Mr. Coleman, sir! Well, sir, Mr. Brown, ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1655 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

The Position of New Zealand

... Stamp duties have an ugly sound in a colonial budget, but it makes all the difference who imposes them. They are already levied in New South Wales; and the New Zealand Government have probably by this time passed a Stamp Act, avoiding (to use the characteristic style of the Canterbury Press) these blunders in the Sydney Act which created such per- plexity in the New South Wales commercial ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 307 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

INSURRECTION IN SIBERIA : CONDUCT \ OF THE POLES

... INSURRECTION IN SIBERIA CONDUCT OF THE POLES. they pillaged, and marched towards the mills of Petrowski and the auriferous sands belonging to the Crown, where a large number of Poles were working. On their road, they took away all the horses belonging to the post stages, pillaged and burned down the villages, tore down the telegraph wires, and destroyed the bridges and ferry boap. It is ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 768 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

SHOCKING MURDER, AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER

... On Saturday evening, a little a,f,cr seven o'clock, the inhabitants of Wolsingham, situated ten mues from Bishop Auckland, in the county of Durham, were startled by a rumour that a man had killed his sweet- heart by cutting her throat. The unfortunatei victim was a younj woman named .Mary Ann Ivewton. She waa twenty-two years of years, and_ was em- ployed as servant to a gentleman named Gibson ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 569 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

The Inquest

... On the day of the discovery of the body, Dr. Long, the coroner of the district, proceeded to the scene of the murder, and held au inquest. The x'ollowiag evi- dence was tendered:— Grace M'Cormick said: I live in the townla'fid of Bengorm. I rexaember this day week. It was Toes- day. I recollect James M-Kelvey, the deceased, com- ing into my house about the hour of ten o'clock. Some of the ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 462 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

OUR LIBRARY TABLE

... We have been permitted to glance at an unpublished collection of anecdotes which a learned society is ibout to give to the world. The narratives are in svery instance authenticated by the name and address af the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We trust that we are not betraying confidence in printing a few extracts from this treasury of the wit of all ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 573 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

London Produce Market

... MINCING-LANE, A-'JCr. 14 market has opened quietly but steadily at last week's currency. Refined dred goods continue, ui moderate requestryt sfceadr prices pieces-sell readily as soon as produced, at firm rates.- Coffee. is hrm, but owing to numerous parcels being-aeclared for p-ublic sale during the week the market -privately is quiet. TEA. Assam ales are progressing steadier • VIive tel v ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

SINGULAR CHARGE OF HOBSE-STEALING

... SINGULAR CHARGE OF HOBSE- STEALING. James Allen and Thomas Dwyer, horse keepers, were charged, at the London Guildhall, on remand with stealing a horse, on the 20th ultimo, value j £ 1010a., belonging to Mr. James Meacoek, and also with receiving the said horse, well knowing it to have been stolen. Samuel Dohle, metropolitan police-constable 147 X, said that on the morning of the 21st June, he ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1866
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 418 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

I HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY

... HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY. The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Re. presentation of the People Bill was resumed by Lord CRANB JRNE, who said it was a part of the whole plan of the Government to reprasent the Conservative party as afraid of the working classes, and unwilling to trust them. It was the great glory of the House of Com- mons that its language had been always free and ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1866
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2878 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News