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... [SrOM OUR LX.)Y CORRrSPON1'DEN.] - LoHuoN, TnuaEI)Av. Io reasonable person would look jast nomv for a sabjaot of ?? in London, for it Is-sooial5y peaking- a desert. The sudden burst of subnine has acted magically in filling seaside lodgiughboreuo aad hotola, asud cons~eqnent1y emptying the olty. Pamis vwboare always orying ou dolofully when other people WAut to bs happy aud comfortable jell ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1879
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1724 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE ZULU WAR

... TII1? ZULU WA R THE1 PROSPEaTS OF PEALCE. .[R1!oTNR'S T1SLEORAM.J CAPE TOWN, JUI, 22 (via Plymoath.) The resignat'on of Lord Cheimeford and the re. turn of Sir Garnet Woiseley to Marltzburg are the prlncipal events of the past week. The latter waua totally unexpected. Lord Chaelmeford and Sir Qarnet Woleeley nneb at St. Paal'es on the 18th, The formner proceeded nent day to Dorban, where he ...

Published: Tuesday 12 August 1879
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 640 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

BAZAAR IN CARRICKFERGUS

... BAZAAR I'E OARRIOKFERGUS. [FROM OUR R1 PORTIM] T.m parish churoh of St. Nicholas, Cuariokergus, which has had a most eventful history, and one Lonneoted with the memory of the mott important epoohs in the national chronicles, having been renovated and supplied with a new organ some etime ago, it was considered necessary to provide some means of heating the edifioe, and with this view ...

Published: Monday 01 September 1879
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 959 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... LATESTorNEWS THE RUSSIAN EXPEDITION IN CENTRAL BnRLIN, TuESDAY,-Intelligoneo received here E from St. Petersburg atates that a whole division of ] troops, numbering from 30,000 to 40,000 men, has boon ordered to proceed from tlhe Canoasus to Con. tral Asia, as well as several offioera of the general staff at St. Petersburg. R 1JU S I A. Kxerr, TUESDAYY-A oourt martial was opened to-day for th ...

Published: Wednesday 29 October 1879
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2482 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

TOWN COMMISSIONERS

... AnaraEr.-The Town Commismioners of Armagh D met on Monday, when there were present-Mr, X. tl G. Winder, J.P. (chairman); Messrs. Harris, W. tl Beat, Bronte, John Thompson, MCOlelland, Somers, ce Taylor, Walker. M Kinstry, Moore, Anderson, v Marsbal1, and Williamson. The bank aecount E showed a balancs against the Town Commissioners ti of £104 lI e d, and against the Pipe Water Coem. A ...

Published: Wednesday 03 September 1879
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1991 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

MISSIONS TO SEAMEN

... MaiBrING AT LAIMS. A PUrLIa meeting was held In the Schoolhouse, Larne, on Thursday, over which the reotor, the Rev. T. P. Morgan, M.4, presided, to raise funds for a chaplaincy for the shipping in Belsest Loeugh and Harbour, and for the formation of & Larne auxiliary to the Missions to Seamen. There was a large attendance. The COuArAN pointed oat that Ulster wan far behind the two more ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1879
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1078 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

DISASTROUS FIRE IN BELFAST

... DISASTROOB FIRE IN BELFAST. A GREAT DESTRUOTIlON OF PROPERTY. A TaE reonrds of insurance and history of serious mn -fires in the Northern Athens present few parallels d to a fire: Whioh broke out 'u Donegall Street last Vi night. Premise3,stored with gocie of every de. ol el eoription-wooileu, cotton, drugs and groceries, l Englsh broadolotho, Irish linens, American oils, qi and foreign ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1879
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2252 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

WILLS AND BEQUESTS

... WILLS AND BEQUESTS, THE will of Thomas Nicholas Barnewall, Lord Trimleston, of Trlmloston, In the Coanty of Moe%,h, in Ireland, bas been proved in London by the Hon. Mes. Anna Maria Louisa Elliot, the daughter, and her husband, Mr. Robert Henry Elliot, the execu. tors, the pereonal etatoe beiog sworn under £70,000. The testator leaves 'to his cousin and lifelong friend, the Rev, Francis Hill, ...

Published: Tuesday 16 September 1879
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 649 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

MESSRS. BLACKIE & SONS' SCHOOL SERIES

... MESSRS. BLACKIE & SONS' SOHOOL SERIES. MnssS, BLAOXrIS & SONS, of Edinburgh and l)Db- had Hn, have just iesued a portion of a new comprehen. e Fivo series of band-books for the use of sohool. per The volumes already publibhod are certainly most ?? complete in every way, and there can be but little refe is, doubt that the series wiL7 become a speedy favonrite Balr with both teachers and pupils. ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1879
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 980 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE GOVERNMENT UNIVERSITY BILL

... [FROM TUE TIMES OF TESThr1DAY,. TEE debate yesterday In the House of Lords upon the bill of the Government for promoting univer. sity education In Ireland will be mermorable as marking at all events a new and distinct stage In the discussion of thin important question. It in all the more Instructive because it was singularly free from the ordinary oharacterletios of a party debate, and was ...

Published: Thursday 10 July 1879
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 838 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... (SPECIAL AND ORDINARY TELEGRAMS.] THE AFFAIRS OF THE PORTE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ti X8sDAY-Anonymous letters havebeen addressed to the Porte threatening serious riots if the caimes are not shortly withdrawn. S E R V I A. BswitAmE, SUNDAY*-Ia consequence of the peaceful aspect of the political horizon, the Skupt. schins, has proposed a reduotion ef 2,000,000f. in the military budget, to which the ...

Published: Monday 06 January 1879
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1176 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

SNOWSTORMS

... S- NOW O-w-S . . . ?? s. I.. Tni preseat season may help to dissipate the idea fl that winters in Scotland have become essentially an milder than'they were ip'thc days of cur grand- th fathere; and:it wonld not be difficult to show that, Bt to except in a few abnormal-instances, the seasons are c now very much the same es they have always ben es Ia January, 1861, the times had a leading ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1879
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2310 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News