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THE LEEDS MERCURY

... TH1E liJEES NIERCURY. - DES1PATCfE5S, by way of Madeira, bring. Wi ad-vices fronm Zululard to the 15th of July. LoenD he Chc1IMMSrORDn has resigned. The statement is made di ,r otlioially by Sin GARNET WOLSELEY, wche, in a message WI to the War Office, says he has given his Lordship co u ikermission to return home. Oin the day following the th 1' blattlek of Ulundi, GaceTnAL CREALOCE m~ade anl ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1879
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5003 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

NATIONAL ARTILLERY ASSOCIATION

... NATIONAL ARTILLERY ASXOCIATIfO. 5 SctO1DIUEYxZss CAoP, Monday night. Y Shell firing with the 64-pounder Panliser muzz!e.klca S ing gun commenced at six o'clock this morung. Tot r men breakfasted shortly after five o'clock, ar.i rh s detachments told off for the morning competiticii, ocu sisting of the 2nd Middlesex, 1st London, 1st sii.L-n.::a 1st and 3rd Lincoln, 1st and 2ud Hunts, tho lc; a: ...

Published: Tuesday 12 August 1879
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 931 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

Varieties

... (?dlll . . ?44 ofi6e, I ?%-k I?,, 'Vhy is Mr RBiger's young boy larger than himself? Because he is a little Bigger. A tailor, in skating, fell through the ice; he was after- wards heard to declare that he would never again leave his not goose for a cold duck. No man can ever tell just how much money a widow is worth until he marries her for it. It is one of those craes where you have to ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1646 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE CUSTOMS, RAILWAY, AND POST OFFICE IN EGYPT

... I CAIRO, Augigst 7. THE directors of the Customs, railways, and Post Office, in the reports which they have just made to the Minister of Finance for 1878, concur in regarding that year as one of the most disastrous for revenue purposes which Egypt has ever experienced. In the Customs, the total revenues from exports for 1878 were 196,2i6, as against r141,67 in 1877. The total value of goods ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1879
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 894 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: News 

This Evening's News

... did ?? otwd. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 14, 8.30 P.M.-Savfet Pasha will probably preside over the Commission for the delimitation of the Greek frontier. The Porte intends sending delegates to Samos. The Russian Government has requested that Turk sit Commissioners should be sent to St. Petersburg to regulate the expense incurred in maintain'ng the Turkish prisoners of ...

Published: Friday 15 August 1879
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5076 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: News 

Trade and Finance

... trie af 1 of itift. The Canadian banks which failed in the last week or two have been very ,hort of cash, and the strengthening of the cash reserves in Canada appears to Le putting a drain upon those of New York. According to the weekly telegram relatirg to the condition of the New York reserve banks, their stock of legal terders and coin amounts altogether to no more than 14 millions sterling ...

Published: Monday 11 August 1879
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2730 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: News 

OCCASIONAL NOTES

... We must all hope that the Zulu war is, as the Government and Sir Garnet Wolseley believe it, virtually at an end; and it would be premature to suggest any serious doubts on the point. At the same time we cannot repress a feeling of anxiety this morning on reading the latest news from the Cape. Sir Garnet Wolseley's statement that the chiefs of the coast district were perplexed by our hasty ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1879
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2733 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: News 

This Evening's News

... filio eteninI14 otb)d. RUSSIA AND SWEDEN. Our Copenhagen correspondent, writing on the 25th inst,, ?? fficil Swedish organ, the Post Tidning, of the 23rd, contains an evidently iF ?? article on the visit of the Czarewitch to Stockholm, his Imperial .bgh e5s being the first heir to the Russian throne who has visited that town, and calls attention to the friendly relations between the two Courts ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1879
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2581 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

... SPECIAL SUNDAY EDITION, CONTAINING ALL YESTERDAY'S NEWS. .- .- ?? ~ ?? .=r . LLOYD'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OFFIOE, SUNDAY BIORNING. COUNT ANDEASSY'S SUCCESSOR. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) VIENNA, August 16, Night.-Herr Szecheny, the ambassador at Berlin, has been designated as the successor of Count Andrassy. (THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.) RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN FRANCE. PARIS, August 16.-A collision ...

Published: Sunday 17 August 1879
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1152 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

GENERAL GARIBALDI

... During the past few days the state of General Garibaldi's health has become worse, The general cannot eat on account of the recurrence of arthritic pains. Signor Villa, Ministerof the Interior, went on Sunday to Civita Vecchia to pay hien a visit. Garibaldi's suit for a divorce from his wife, the Contessa Raimnondi, has been for some time past a leading topic of conversation in Italian society ...

Published: Sunday 24 August 1879
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 688 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News 

THE ZULU WAR

... TH1E ZULU WAR. MEETING OF SIR GcARPET WOLSELEY AND LORD CHELMSFOIID. ADVANCE ON CETE WAYVO'S NEW IVK1AAL (REUTER'S TheLEGIIAM.) CAPETOWN, July 22 (by telegraph from Mlladeira). -Sir Garnet Wosleeey andl Lord Chelmesford met on ?? inst. at st. Paul's. Hlis lordship arrived on tlee 0dth inst. at Deuriall, wi ere hie vas well received . Sevelal ZAnil chiefs offered their seubltission to Sir ...

Published: Sunday 10 August 1879
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1514 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

DOCTORS ON DRINK

... oRSqDRINK. els5 ready and willing to acknowledge Evely Ointeniperaence, but who is able to in- the evlS a Ieniedy forthe national vice ? The dicate a S been discussed from every point of question I.lIc as in private. All persons agree in View. iii ntte failing, but no two persons can ?? e meanus by which that failing may agree I tole enral. In a volume lately be lets' c , collection of ...

Published: Sunday 31 August 1879
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1243 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: News