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... 03flural qefm Another snowstorm has passed over Scotland and seriously impeded traffic upon the railways. The definitive treaty between russia nd Turkey has been ratified by the Sultan. A Constantinople telegram contradicts the rumour that the plague has broken out at Eskidje and Senikhova. Severae cases of spottod typhus have occurred at Dunse' Parish Church was completely destroyed by fire ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3739 | Page: Page 5, 6 | Tags: News 

Local Intelligence

... , , I a IcIU exe. ..I .. . ?? l f l ,~ , ROYAL INSTIToTeOe.'-Oig Saturday,- at 4three o'clock, Tlbomnas Hairison, Esq., ?? of. the.Post Office Telegraphs,, will lecture on Sir Charles Wheatstone as an electrician (with experiments). Mr. Robert Carriok, of Hedoss, who passed-his final examination at the Incorporated Law Society's Hall in November last, was on Saturday last admitted a solicitor ...

Published: Friday 21 February 1879
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4278 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

LOCAL NEWS

... I LOCA- LEWS Ii - LOCAL N$ OBW At Blackburn. on Saturday, Charles Richard Ox H indles, aged five years, was caught by an express exbil train while pasn Harrison's crossing, on the fronm Lancashire an -Yorkshire Railway, and his body ofta Vs was literally cut to pieces. This is said to be the fami 5S sixth accident at the place. hush MANs FouNDn Daowuzn AT Bsaxsmws.-~Abont Of I ie half-past ...

Published: Monday 17 February 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5741 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

WEST COAST OF AFRICA

... WEST COAST OF AFLICA. INGs , _A-JA AZ'U THE TRADERS%. C , tUl: AFtlCA'AN GCOTD WOIVWtINGS. as - ?? . 'The Br'itish un2d African Steam Navigati:an Gem~- I ?? royei mail Etuamer (isboou arrived in the D: i eraty yebterday. . She reports that at Old Calabar oe the 11thli n usimo the health of the Europeans wo7 remark- ,bly grood, but trade was almost at a sta:dstill, L partly oa Lcouut of tie dry ...

Published: Thursday 20 February 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 711 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

CONVOCATION

... CONVOCATION'. Yesterday mornir_-, convocation of the province of Canterbury met for the despatch of business, the A usual celebration of the Holy Communion takiag place not in 'Westminster Abbey, as 'csual, but in the private chapel of Lambeth Palace. The Prolo- V cutor took the chair in the lower housen, when several notices of motion were given. Canon Gregory presentei a memorial of ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 930 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

NEWS FROM PARIS

... K 1 I SPEECHES BY M. GREVY AND M. GAMBETTA. -(BY SUBMINEUIB TIIEGRAPIQL (pRoM OUJI OWN CORRESRONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY NIGHT. This morning M.. Gr}rv received the bureaux of 4be Municipal Council aund the Council-General of the Seine. In reply to an address from M. Thuline, President of both Councils, M. Grevy said he would gladly have seen, as bad been re- quested, the Parisian Municipality in ...

Published: Monday 17 February 1879
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2801 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

Local Topics

... Nufal Expics. ?? ?? Tims RECENT ELECTION FOR PIUARGATE WARD (if at E that may be called an election in which the electors P' r had no voice) has aroused what the Yankees style a w good deal of latent feeling; and uncomplimentary a! remarks upon the age and experience of the new AC Councillor have been dsropped into the letier-boxes of as some of our contemporAries. As for the youth of g1 ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1879
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1070 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

MEETING OF SUGAR OPERATIVES

... '_ a -..s.. M F.Anawl mantine I ; On Saturday, a numerously attended meeting of Bristol sugar operatives and other working men was held at the Giant's Castle coffee tavern, St. Philip'sf bridge, the chair being taken by Mr. Charles Fox. The meeting was convened by bills which had been freely circulated throughout the city, and whichi set forth thipt the object of the assembly was to tranaet ...

Published: Monday 17 February 1879
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1646 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

PRINCE LEOPOLD ON UNIVERSITY EXTENSION

... PRINCE LEOPOLD ON UNIVERSITY. I I EXTEN SION. EXTENl 'iU1N. A public treeting, called by the London Society for the Extenson of Uidversity.Teaohling, was held yeeterday afternoon in London. The Lord Mayor presided. Mr. Gladstone said there could be no possible doubt as to the want of more educational facilities being given to 1 the large n*mber of persons included in the clases betwveen the ...

Published: Thursday 20 February 1879
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1668 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

GENERAL FOREIGN NEW

... GENERAL FOREIGN NEW , (THROUGH RUiTcE'S Aq (lq) THIE GERMAN TARIFF. The Nalional. feitttng to-day announces ut thi- Customs Tarif, Commission yesterday dended ?? the impositiou of an import duty of 10 ?? Ppt. upon hops, but to admit'wool and cotton free of du3. SNOWSTORMS IN DENM COPENB.GEN, in, In consequence of heavy snowatorms during the bsitio days, all railway communication between Fuae a ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1879
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1186 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

BOXFORD

... CoNcErT.-The fourth of these popular entertain. mnent caroe off on Wednesday evening, in tihe NationalI th School-room, which was crowded. The Rev. W. Main de prico presided, and the programme gave entire Sat'S. re faction, almost every song heing encored. EttSTON. h Fin.e AT THiE HAmILTON PALACE OFFICES-About half-past seven o'clock on Saturday eveiting the faggot. pa hoase adjoining the ...

Published: Tuesday 18 February 1879
Newspaper: Ipswich Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 2286 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

LEEDS HOSPITAL SUNDAY

... LEEDS HfOSPITAL SUNDAY. The medical charities of Leads make their nnual| appeal to the Christian congregations of the town eaad (ii-tliJt to-morrow, when we hope the collection will sur- prL88 ia liherality tlhose of previous H~ospital SaUndays. Thce total rmociunt received list year from this source was £2,710. It might, perhaps, be feared that cxistiug com- morcial depression, anl the ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1879
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3809 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: News