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IRISH LANDOWNERS' CONVENTION

... HIISH LANDOWN ERS' CONNVEI lION. FROM OIUR SPECIAL REPOBTER. DuBRmns, FrIDAn.-Tho proceedings at the Con- vention of Irish landowners was resumed to-day at a quarter-past twelve o'clock in the Leinster Hall, Molesworth Street. In the absence of his Grace the DIke of Abercorn (presidlent), Lord Castle- town, D.L. (vice-president), occupied the chair. There was a considerable attendauce of ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 11609 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: News 

IRISH POLK LORE

... WHO that has heard a ghost, story told by the winter fireside iloes not ?? the brerthless interest which the hearers try in vain to bide, oi has not felt his own heart beat faster untiN the tale is told? We are all of us more or or less superstitious, and while we affect to deride them, are sensible to supernatural fears much the saing as those which must- have kept our ancestors in a lively ...

Published: Thursday 26 December 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1801 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

HE LATRAILLE NUISANCE ON DUBLIN ROAD

... THE LATRAILLE NUISANCE &lp DUELINe I ROAD. I __I Tnu. following letter haa been: presented to the Mayor and Corp-oration of Belfast; signed. by & large number of residents in' Shaftesbury Square and: Pakenhami Place, requesting the* removal of the objectionable kiosk which disgraces the; thoroughfare at, the junction of Dublin Roadi andd Great: Victoria Street. Public opinion was lately ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1159 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

THE METHODIST CHURCH

... The Rev. Dr. Nicholas, Abbey Street, Dublin, has accepted an invitation to the Rathiniues circuit for 1891, in succession to Rev. C. Inwood, who succeeds Dr. Nicholas in Abbey Street. The evangelistic services in the Circus, conducted by Ilev. R. Crawford Johnson, Rev. James Grubb, Mr. Dixon, the converted soldier ; and their aFsistAnts, continuc to attract great crowds. The Saturday evening ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1159 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

MR. BALFOUR IN SCOTLAND

... I- * . ?? ANOO'--i4j IMPORTANT SIIt'CfT. SPRETAL TELEGiRAM. FL GLASGoW, TuESDAY.-At noon to.day, Mr. A. I; J. Balfour paid a visit to the West of Sootland Imperial Union Clob. Glasgow. where he was re- ceived by many prominent Unionists of the town s and neighbourhood. The attendance included-( Sir Edward Colebrooke, Bart. (who presided); Sir Wm. Thomson, Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Mr. a ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3185 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE PARISH CHURCH

... LAST evening a large and representative meeting of the conoregation of the Parish Church was held in the Jofinson Memorial Mission Hall, for the purpose of presenting an address and testimonial to the Rev. George Gore Mervyn, AM., on the occasion of his resigning the curacy of that parish in order to take charge of the parish of' Ballyma- carrett. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Dr. Hannay, ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 431 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

BELFAST: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1889

... WGfidest ,W-~e (ESTABLISHED ANNO 1737.) A child named Charles Jones has been acciden- tally shot dead at Chatham. Lieutenant Carey died suddenly on board H. M. S. Indus in Devonport Harbour yesterday. The Liverpool ship Durham has taken fire at Port Costa, and the greater part of a cargo of wheat has been destroyed. Elizabeth Davis, aged eighty years, was yes- terday burned to death in London ...

Published: Friday 27 December 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4878 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: News 

ULSTER INTELLIGENCE

... ULSTER INTELLIGENCE, PfOlt OUR CORRESPONDENTS. DF.T)! OF MR. WILLIAM BOYD.-This gentlr' man died at his residence, Rickanuore, on Tuesday list. For the iast three months he suffered from a severe illness, which he bore with patience and Christian resignation. Sonme time ago he resigned the w-,,enev of the Adair and Gray estates, the affairs of which he behd managed in the most stnaightforward ...

Published: Friday 06 December 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1815 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE NOTE CIRCULATION

... THRY NOTE CIRCULATION. LoNnoN-, T:UIVSDntY.-Defore a meeting- of the Institute of Bankers, held last evening at the Lon- aon Institution.Finsbury Circus-Sir R. N. Fowler TIM.P., in the chair-Mr. R. H. Inglis Palgrave. ?? read a paper on The Note Circulation of England and Wales. Premising that few matters connected with anv business had been the occasion of more controversy than the subject ...

Published: Friday 06 December 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1757 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

STORMY WEATHER IN THE ATLANTIC

... STORMY WEAT1EE1 IN THlE ATLANTIC. LmviDowiznnna, SATURDAY.-The ship Maori, Captain Jackson, of this port, arrived at Derry this evening, after a stormy passage from Quebec, with a cargo of timber for the owners, Messrs. A. Major & Co. The captain states that he left Quebec on the 19th October. and had file weather in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and remarkably fine and clear atmosphere when ...

Published: Monday 02 December 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 882 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

ARRIVAL OF THE BRAZILIAN ROYAL FAMILY

... ARRIVAL OF'THE BRAZILIAN I ROYAL FAMILY. INTERVIEVW WITH THE DEPOSED EMPEROR. EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENTS,. PROM OUR OWN COaRESPONDSN'r. lisnos. SATURDAY A'TFr.nooNF.-The steamer Alagoas, with the Brazilian Royal Family on board and flyjpg the Imperial flag, arrived in the Tagus, The Altgoas cast anchor off Belem at nine o'clock, and the ordinary quarantine fornalities vere dis- pensed wiLth. ...

Published: Monday 09 December 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1984 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

HOME MISSION WORK AMONG THE BLIND

... RO01E MISSION WORK AMONG1 THE B1N.D. I ANNUAL SOCIAL R.EUNION. pg annual social reunion in eo-ni~ection with the I-tome M-ission Work Amiong the' Blend was held on Saturday evening, at six o'clock, inl the Exhibition lajil of 'the Botanic Gardens. There was a very jax~e attendance not only of the blind, but of ladies and gentlemen interested in the wvork. Between the hours of six and seven ...

Published: Monday 09 December 1889
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4100 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News