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THE ASHANTEE WAR

... done has been to increase their size and abundance, or extend their season. Currants and Gooseberries, Raspberries and Blackberries, Chestnuts, and, above all. Strawberries are of this class. 3. But most of the esteemed and important fruits, as well as ...

Published: Wednesday 04 February 1874
Newspaper: Maidenhead Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2779 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HORTICULTURAL SHOW AT HAWLEY HOUSE, BLACKWATER

... to all members keeping gardener- Captain Hill won the first prize for the best collection of vegetables. Some American blackberries were exhibited by the Heatherside Nursery Company. Some very fine fruit, not for competition, was exhibited by Sir Charles ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1874
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1722 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PRIZE LIST

... the muterpiece. Baskets of flowers in Berlin wool, by Mre. Morffew, were very commendable. She also exhibited a basket of blackberries, made of bead'. A mat and some flowers (Berlin wool) by Min J. Cballen also deserve notice. Some attractive woolwork and ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1874
Newspaper: Reading Observer
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4505 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEWBURY

... Shippenhanger's Farm, on the previous day.—Rose Bidmead, 12 years of age, said I live at Maidenhead. On the 25th August I was blackberrying up Shippenhanger's-raid with another girl, when we saw Smith sitting down near the hedge, and afterwards saw smoke coming ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1874
Newspaper: Reading Observer
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7214 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DISTRICT NEWS

... named at Bramley. The complainant, who appeared to :* k:, said, on the previous Wednesday afternoon C> field gathering blackberries from the hedge, Prisoner came up and laid claim to the black\\\ c had gathered. Complainant put them on the hen he was ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1874
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1812 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A great fire hag occurred at Amsterdam, a sugar refinery, which was insured for a million and a half of

... that he ran away. He wandered along the fields and lived as he could, and was at length caught by the police gathering blackberries and potatoes. The Bench sympathised with the lad, and the ease was adjourned in order that Messrs. Sanger might be communicated ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1874
Newspaper: Windsor and Eton Express
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2404 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A GOLDEN WEDDING

... Southampton, have returned a verdict of accidental death in the cue of a little girl eleven years of age, who, being out blackberrying, called at an acquaintance's. There, a little boy, seeing a gun—unfortunately loaded--commenced playing with agnb+ded. ...