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JOHN BULL. SHOPKEEPER

... The annual report nf the Commissioners of fler Majesty's Customs, issued to-day, shoves that the gross Imperial Customs revenue collec- ted in the year amounetd to £21,901,540. Not- withstanding the redaction in the tobacco duties and the occurrence of two Hood Fridays in the period covered by the report, the income is only £27.4.023 less tlian the produce of 1897-98. It is £47.227 more than ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1899
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 569 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

WRECK OF A PLEASURE STEAMER

... The Clyde pleasure- sterner. Red Gaunt let. be- tasging to the N'onh British Packet Coaifaivy^rai wrecked on the south-west ol Arrau, on yre_n_» wreekei on t_c .. mc- j_en_orun *t day afternoon. Ihe teasel « L ,»'- ?? 9.0 a.m. on Wednesday. The weather was t&eafc ening, and a stiff twr_--west wuid waa sJfjVr, As the Firth opened cut the strength of the vnnu increased, and coming away in ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1899
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 485 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

BOYCOTTING AGAIN

... it was impossible to conceive a more malig- .. ?? malicious, and barbaric tyranny than that .. h the case disclosed. 'The speaker was Mr. Justice Kenny, giving ludg- i Wednesday in Dublin; and the case was one ting out of the action of the United Irish ?? regard to a farm in Co. Leitrim An application had been made on behalf of Mr. Hugh Montgomery, landlord, for the issue of writs i l.ment ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1899
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

DERBY AXD DERBYSHIRE TAXATION* ACCOUNTS

... DERBY AXD DERBYSHIRE TAXATION* ACCOUNTS. From a Parliamentary paper issued on Saturday by the Local Government Hoard, -.vhich gives the distribution of the amounts ?? from Lstate and Customs, and Excise Duties during the year ended the 31st March, 1899, we take the following : Derby County.- -The amount of local taxation license duties certified by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue tn have ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1899
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 972 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE BIBLE IN ALL LAISGUAGE3

... Few facts in the progress of philanthropy and literature are of greater interest than this, that the Bible, in who!e or part, has now been translated into 406 of the tongnes of maiknd. The whtli book is published in 111 languages, and portions, chiefly the Gospels, in 204 more. All this is work ot the present century, with 30 exeaptiocs. The 406 versions are d:s riboted and sold at a nominal ...

Published: Wednesday 24 May 1899
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

A 80LICIT0R AND HIS BERVANTS

... In the Divorce Court on Friday. Mr. Justice Barnes heard the undefended petition of Mrs. Clara Annie Cowl, :or a dissolution of her marriage on the ground of the cruelty and adultery of her husband, Walter Herbert Cowl, a solicitor, of Lcndon .md Sudbury. The petitioner in 1887 dis- covered a letter addressed to her husband from a foimer servant asking for maintenance of a child. Respondent ...

Published: Wednesday 24 May 1899
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THK TUBERCULOSIS CONFEKEXCr

... THE w liter v b declares that the Tnbercnljsii Conference which is now assembled at ?? U even more important than that which is delibei-.il- ing at the Hague has certainly some sure founrtj. tion. for the remark. The minute creature whicii finds :ts way into the human system, ui-.J .n ?? course of .v few weeks or months eats up ils vitality, is probably far more destructive than the bu.'iet ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1899
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 495 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

WHAT THK WORLD _YS

... A paragraph has been going r.. ?? ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1899
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 466 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

DERBY FRIENDLY SOCIETIES

... The monthly meeting o! the ,-h. - ?? held at the Post Office Hotel, v.. \y -, was very well attended by I jwaettts affiliated, Bro. R. Bullivant i, 1 Int question left :rtt from ?? metti-, - rr;-ard lo the treatment „f lubercuh^.. suggestion that h tjiici : - sbon! I a public meeting by a professional genii discussed and approved, the am . same bring left over to .. future uiec - - lion to ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1899
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 593 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION SCHEMES

... In the repoit of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Sooieties allusion is made for tbe first time to tha work done under Section 3 of the Workmen's? Compensation Act (the contracting oat section},' and seeing that thig report only deals witb th« work nnder that section for the siz months to the 31st December, 1899, the resnlt is by no means! unsatisfactory. The first step taken by the Chief ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1899
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 429 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE ELECTIONS

... riIHM bye-election ut Oldham has resulted, m a- Mime close observers foresaw it would, in the deieat ot' ?? Unionist candidates. It, was not .hr any lick oi go and fighting capacity on their putts, we arj confident, though they wen- doubt- less handicapped by the unexpected nature ?? the contest, by rhe fact that they had no previous knowledge of tho constituency as candidates, and by the ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1899
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 358 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE EXPEDITION AGAINST THE KHALIFA

... Xbe expedition in pursui. ot tl-.e Khalifa will probably leave Kalsa early in November, On Sept. 25tb tho Camel Co.pa and Artillery left Omdnrman ?? Abu Goma by land, and oo the 28 h tae .a-airy followed them. On Sep'.cmber 29th two Soudiui&so battalions left for tbe save destination by river. Other Soudanese battalions will follow in case of necessity. Thesa Soudanese bat tedious _ill be ...

Published: Wednesday 25 October 1899
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News