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... It is stated that the winner of the first prize is a Parisian tramway conductor. The prize consists of a magnificent silver dinner service, supplied and exhibited in the recent Exhibition by M. Odiot, jeweller, of ...
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LEAVING HJ WIFE CHARGEABLE.j
... LEAVING HJ WIFE CHARGEABLE. Jonathan Jones was charged with leaving his wife chargeable to the paiish. Complainant stated that defendant had left her for six weeks, and had not contributed anything towards her support during that time. Ordered to pay 5s per week. ...
CITY OF GLASGOW BANK AID ASSQ. CIATION (LIMITED.)
... Since the abandonment of the Glasgow lottery scheme a large number of gentlemen in Glasgow and elsewhere have been in consultation as to the practi- cability of adopting some other plan whereby relief can be afforded the unfortunate shareholders of the City of Glasgow Bank. These consultations have now led to the adoption of a scheme which, it is believed, will meet the object in view, and the ...
SIR GEORGE. ELLIOT, M.P., ON CYPRUS
... Speaking at the annual dinner of the South Shields Conservative Association recen Sir George Elliot, M.P., alluding to our acquisition of Cyprus, said he had gone all rotted .the island. He had made himself acquainted with, it, and he believed he knew as much about Cyprus as most people. (Hear, hear.) There was a harbour—the position for a harbour, quite under the lea of Port Said, nearly at ...
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... The saddest time, we think, in a young man's life is when his girl writes to him that she wants her o d letters, and that he can have his fifty-cent diamond earrings upon application.-New York Express. Spain boasts of 92 dukes, 866 marquises, ü32 counts, 92 viscounts, and 98 barons, besides 44 ennobled foreigners. Two dukes, 58 marquises, 30 counts, (j viscounts, and 2 barons have been created ...
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT AND GAS COMPANIES
... Last week Dr. William Wallace, F.R.S.B., read a paper at the Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi, on Gas Illumination. Mr. Woodhall, M.I.C.N., occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance. Dr* Wallace said that, having given the matter some attention, he had arrived at the conclusion that gas interests would not suffar in consequence of the introduction of the electric light for ...
OFFICIAL DESPATCH
... (From Lord Chelmsford to Secretary of State for War.) ST. VixcEi.T, February 10,6.40 p.m. I regret to have to report a very disastrous engagement, which took place on the 22nd January between the Zulus and a portion of No. 3 Column, left to guard the camp about ten miles in front of Rorke's Drift. The Zulus came down in overwhelming numbers, and, in Epite of the gallant resistance made by ...
THE INDIAN FACTORY BILL
... The Government of India has never been very fortunate, says the Indian Daily News, in its mode of dealing with industrial questions. The reason lies in the fact that it makes no sufficient allowance ior diversities having their origin in conditions of labour, and rules of life peculiar to India. Its views are too rigidly western, its objects too exclusively Eng- lish to result in a wise and ...
HACKNEY CARRIAGES IN INDIA
... The ill-regulated and unsatisfactory condition of the hackney carriage service in the principal cantonments and municipalities of the Punjaub has induced the Indian Government to introduce a bill to the Council for the regulation of hackney carriages. The present hackney carriage service was described to the Council as infamous. Various dilapidated horses, unbroken, and fre- quently half ...
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... SUBSTITUTE FOR MILK.—The Editor of the Medina Mirror has called the notice of the medical profession Cadburyva Cocoa Essence which he calls CadburT Concentrated Vegetable Milk, and remarks: j excess of fatty matter haft been carefully eminated iuss a compound remains which conveys in at mi^1. mu*» balka maximatn,amount of nuitrsoicnt. We stronSy BeeoBaawfOMl it as dixit Joc ciuhire ...
I THE- EXPLOSION AT THE DINAS I . COLLIERY
... THE- EXPLOSION AT THE DINAS COLLIERY- A puolic meeting conveuea by the Mayor, was b .'d at the Town-hall, C.-ir ...
iFAREWELL LETTERS FROM PEACE TO HIS WIFE AND FAMILY
... FAREWELL LETTERS FROM PEACE TO HIS WIFE AND FAMILY. The following letters have been addressed by Peace to his relatives:— From Charles Peace. „ r „ H. M. Prison, Leeds, Feb. 25, 1879. iuy Dear Dear Wile I have been A bace bad man to thee for many yeaars 0 Dear if I had taken thy advice may years ago this would not have befallen me I need not to ask for thy forgiveness for I know that thow hast ...