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THE TONQUIN CAMPAIGN

... THE TONQUJN CAMPAIGN. BO3MBARDWIENT AX'D CAPTURE OF HUE. PARIS, Sunday evening Admiral Courbet's despatch to the Ministry of Marine says The French flag now floats on the forts and bat- teries at the entrance of the Hue River. The Vipere s and the Lynx are anchored in the inner roadstead. 6t The bombardment and attack took place on August ol is, 19, and 20. The landing on the north side ...

Published: Tuesday 28 August 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 980 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

TERRIBLE MINING DISASTER

... jTERRIBLE MIMNG DISASTER 1 FALL OF-A CAGE DOWN THE SHAFT. TWELVE MEN KILLED. t An accident without parallel in the list of Cornish X' mining disasters occurred yesterday morning at the- 3 Wheal.AgarMine,about one and a half mnilesfroflIed- ruth, and situated at the foot-of the Carn Brea Hilt. Ialmost directly opposite the famous Eastpool Mine. 2 3 The cause of the catastropbe-was-the breaking ...

Published: Thursday 16 August 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1687 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

RURAL TALK

... a- TILLtE, PIE, 555A5. t' T.-Hie, ho, bit ye're late th' nicht, sirs. Awrn al ' th papers bi' th' specs on. Fat hes deteen't ve ? Hec. na't been richt wather for th' craps th last audit or ttl A days ? L 1.-On ave; gin this heat an' sinsheen lhed carn a munth seener, we micht kae been hairstin' gin noo in- sted o' sattlin' up th' puckles o' hay. Ma barley s tomi' puddock colour't within this ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1219 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

A MAD ABERDONIAN AT SYDNEY

... A MIAD ABEEDONIAN AT SYDNEY. The Sydny Telegraph says :-Some sIX or seven months ago, a letter, of which the following is a copy, e was found by a son of Quartermaster-Sergeant Little, under the gate of the barracks at Paddington:- l, DSOLARATION OF WNAr. -The Government having passed a bill for the purpose of abolishing religion n from all the schools, I, for one, am determined to, resist ...

Published: Tuesday 21 August 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 772 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

GARIOCH DISTRICT ROAD TRUSTEES

... CA1, ' SVl1 IC i R( bold T!'U S TE E. 'oetFg0 tii' tittac Truls?nei Imr~e tit Aoe:-et~nshitr5 was hevld[ - rh thez~b. business tie Larmtatrxnt II ,,i~i-I Ln~:av arra intromatin 'I, 'ii Ct2n, ot I tie;'soe-ioor.C o t&-,l J~i i am'aye ;illess. * - t - 'a '0 ~~ pk%-I'm Liiti hat --'--i s!:u~L be-icd chair ;rn~~in t it Tt~ei- 'o 5cr samr placing Ii '-- would use' hlis best 0 'O'1 iI Q. te ...

Published: Wednesday 08 August 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1673 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE ABERDEEN RIVETTERS' STRIKE

... a c IS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ e I ;If 2 5, I SETTLEMENT OF THE DISPUTE. C 8 Last week the rivetters employed in the various I shipbuilding yards in Aberdeen came out on strike, E e in consequence of a demand made by the men for a a il rise in the sum paid to them as wages not having been is conceded by-the masters. The men asked Ss per z; is100 - inch rivets, the rate at which they -were paid I ...

Published: Thursday 16 August 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1225 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... -E- D - I N - L SECOND ED-ITIO hABERlEmw Jounn.r OFrFCE, 47 Fleet Strect, London, C.5., Mlonday morning. TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. t (BY SPECIAL WYIRE.) RUMOURED INTENDED RETIREMENT OF MIR GLADSTONE. The Vesnworial Diplowaotiqs'c professes to have good reason to believe that a private conference took place a short time ago between Mr Gladstone, Lord Derby, and Earl Granville respecting the ...

Published: Monday 20 August 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 487 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

FORESTRY SCHOOLS IN EUROPE

... FORESTRY SCEOOLS IN EUROPE So much interest has been excited by the recens discussions on the subject of forestry, and by the fact that England alone of all European nations possesses no school of forestry, that the following resume of those now in operation on the Continent may be useful. Austria heads the list with nine schools-viz., the Imperial High School of AarizW- ture and Forestry at ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 725 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE CROFTERS' COMMISSION

... THE CROFTERS' CO'MIMISSION. | ~~~EVIDENCE .'i POOLEWI:.| I PuoLnav, Saturday. I Thel'oyal CommNission arrived here this morning orn aIboard the North Star from Ullapeol , ad held a meet- ). i|g in the Established Church at eleven o'clock;. Lord tNapier presided. and there was a large gathering of the p farmers ald croftersia thoparishofGairloch. Thevillage j ( of Poolewe contains about 30 or ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1038 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE

... DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL j A SSOCLUTIO-N.r st^XEat SIfO. j c The summer show in connection with the Turriff Dsrct Agicltual Associatiou, which is the first of tiesbibition since the lighland Society's showv it a: I;nvmes. was9 held yesterday on the Market Hill of Tutriftader, on o the 'whole, favourable anspices as -rds weather. The morning was dull, close, nd v -5jirv, but en the hill there was ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 9722 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE AGRICULTURAL RETURNS

... T.SE AGRICULTRAL RETURNS The official stummary of the agricultural returns for Greatkritain MM833) gives the number of acres ander-wheat, 2,613,147 ; [barley, 2,'2.i,9'fi; oats,' - I 2,975,,37 ; potatoes, .5lS,455 hops, 6oR027. This kSI showsv a dte rease of 13 pm-r cent. compared with lSS'2 on wheat, Liot an Increase on other crops. The total 1 number *f cattle is 54962,771: sheep and lambs, ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 666 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE DAPHNE DISASTER

... : DI ITH.E DBANS,, DISASTER. OTYICIAkL iP~EORT. Sir E. J. Feed, FE., who, by appointment of the 5 Home, Secretary, recently held an official inquiry inP Glasgow into the causes of the capsizing of thea Daphne and the circumstances connected therewith, tj has now conmpleted hi-. report, which was last evening d publicly communicate&l It is an exhiaustive and n~ elaborate documennt, abounding ...

Published: Friday 17 August 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3124 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News