PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... LONDON, Sabtsda7 Night. { WE shall have a short and a hot sitting of it, observed an assistant Tory Whip at a convivial gathering within the last three days, not ten 1 minutes' ride from Westminster. I am disposed to'' accept this as the current forecast of the last ses- nion of the present Parliament, corroborated as it I is by circumstances which leave little room for doubt. This fact may ...

Published: Monday 12 January 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2250 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE TAY BRIDGE DISASTER

... RECOVERIY 0O MOiRE BODI ES. Dm1m1sE, 3uliday lNighlt. Intense excitement Continsues to prevail in Dunlee and neihboenrbood as to the circumstances attending the terrible catastroph1e at Tay 13rilgo a fortnight ago, and1 the greet loss of life becomes better known. People are I 1oW beginning to realise the extent of damage and the in- convenience caused by the interruption to through railway ...

Published: Monday 12 January 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 645 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

GENERAL NEWS

... THE EuPrncATzs.-ler Majesty's Indianr troopship | Euphrates arrived 'at ]PorbtSaid lestelday. TuEr PFiNCE oF WALs.-lTfi Rkoyal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived yesterday evening at Windsor, and proceeded to Cumnberland Lodge, on a visit to the Prince and Princess Christian. To-day he will shoot in the Great Park ovdr Adhe 0aI/cov i. Oh: 'esirsday Le -will. hunt with the Windsor GArrison ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1965 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... -C L1 - ter ng I%__l _ . . The buildingof the 25th cabmen's shelter in the letro, polis vas cormmenced on Monday. ?? Ennglish pilgrimage to Lourdes, headed by f5rdilal anning, will leave London on May 31. F The P rhiladlelpeti Ledyer' says the yellow Tuscan brajj promises to be the favourite braid for spring bats al, bonnets. A Liverpool contemporary states that the condemned woman Tracey was ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1954 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE GENERAL ELECTION

... THE LIBERAL ADMINISTRA'ION. |Tie Observer ?? the various sugiestions for the reconstitution of the liberal Administration one which has met with considerable favour in important quarters is the following --Mr. Gladstone would be called to the Upper House, an2( assume the P'remiership as First Lord of the Treasury ; Lord Hartington would be leader of the House of Commons, and succeed to the War ...

Published: Monday 12 April 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4144 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. IAl letters intended for publicatson must be accompanied by the caine and address of the se;'iter; not necessarily for eubtlication, but for the infornation of the Editor. When answers to qiietlteous are not given in the course of 'a dasy or two, the (qliestioners osew please to understand that ice' ar' unable to supply' the siforsnzathsn aeked for. We cannot setrc'o ...

Published: Tuesday 23 March 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2378 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

BIRMINGHAM WATCH COMMITTEE

... . - ?? f meeingof he atI Committee was TesC)tordbty met ngo the ConllIo te. 'ihre were ppmi-sit g bdel5ao Deser~,kin (cila5irmna). Aldermann INan ton, Mtessrs, ]io~aU~htLev htierUNld'AatR W lliams, .-h 1.TuHcart lttF Ct'N9'rEFLIX'1-Tle1d'i~ ~lb~sniiiteereprtd that theY beld Conei8forod thle caqe polcecentaliaLeis. who w~as recelitly finend by the atc~for esitllt The rerettdItat- an e~ve-wit. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1989 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

GLEANINGS

... It is reported on good authorityl tlit one of the vacant1 seats at the Midland Eailway Beard has been offered' to Mr. Starkey, M.P. A large shark was caught on Monday in Lvttelton liar- liboll. i and being hauled into the boat she gave hirth to l; silxten youog sharks. k James Fildes, secretary of the South Yorkshire Glass b Bottle Makers' Trade Protection Society, is in custodyon a e charge ...

Published: Wednesday 21 January 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2115 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

POLITICAL SPEECHES

... POLITICAL SPEECHES, Mr. H. B. lrana and Mr. Walter J. Stanton, the Liberal candidates for titroud, addressed a largo public meeting on Tuesday light. Mir. Marling, MLP., presided. Mr. Brand criticised severely the foreign and financial policy of the Government. A resolution supporting the candidates was canvied nnimously. A meeting was held at, Whitehaven, on Tuesday nigIht, celled by the ?? ...

Published: Thursday 29 January 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 589 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

SANDWELL PARK COLLIERY COMPANY

... or I-- i is a~~. - .- __ -II @ .. t. The annual mueeting of thie company wes held yester- day, at the (Queen's Hotel, Birrninrhaen. Mrr. $is. lissell presided, ad'tthe other directors present were Messrs. JT. Field, J. Fellows, D. Howvard, Wilson lloyd, A. North, and S. York ; also Mr. IT. Johnson (mining engineer), 13. h'arleese (secretary), nnd Mr. Lewis (solicitor) The directors' report, ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 718 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

MORE DEATHS BY DROWNING

... MORE D4ATHS BY DROWNING. I . - .. ?? On Sunday afternoon James Bradsblaw (32), a married manl with three children, was drowned while bathing in a pool at llough 'loeo. lie cried out that hoe was seized with cramp, and before Ite could be reseued lie sank.- Two of the female servants ?? Callast Uouse, ocar rBallachielish, were diownjed on Friday afternoon, 3 haittle on their way to bathe one of ...

Published: Tuesday 17 August 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2201 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... : T. Ad A- A\_ Al- -- s_| ^ ET1.JL - ALL doubt LONDON, Saturday. NigZht, 3 AL doubt is removed now as to the fact that the s Turks have been successful in bringing the Albanians into the position which they themselves would have occupied had they the courage to takle the responsibility of it. Their last circular was y issiued with the intention of putting oft the day of , settlement until the ...

Published: Monday 27 September 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2155 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News