... been a parade to-day in marching order. It was an awful job to find our clothes as there is so little room on board ship and things get lost so easily The Irishmen on board are grand fellows, loyal to the core. They do go on about some of the Irish Members ...

... HOME NEWS. DISASTER TO THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL.—On Thursday considerable damage was done to the Manchester Ship Canal between Warrington and Runcorn. Owing to the heavy rain of the past fetf days the rivers Irwell and Mersey became flooded, and the ...

... THE VOICE OF THE COUNTRY. The elections at Osgoldcross and Oldham have taken place, the Conservatives have lost two seats, and the Radical press has already made itself hoarse with crowing. They ascribe the success at Oldham to lIearly everything under ...

... Wiltshire in 1829, and apart from chess, has had a distinguished career in life. In hi-i English classical scholarship has lost one of its most disinguished representatives. Mr Wayte, who was a schotar, and afterwards a fellow of King's CoHege, Cambridge ...

... Three had been in collision and the Nipsic, an American ship, had lost her funnel, and tossed to and fro with the smoke and sparks pouring along the level of the deck. The Eber, a German ship, bad already gone down stem fore- most. Out of her crew of ...

... t one, and as the Calliope fought- her .way out in the teeth of the gale the sailors on the American ship cheered them on their way. Out of 13 ships that- anchored in the harbour, seven of which were warships, only one, the Calliope, survived. After ...

... Saturday evening the s.s. Telephone was making her way across the bay for Aberdovey port. The tide was not favourable, and the ship was put about and headed for St Tudwell's Road. Just as she turned the soot in her funnel caught fire, and the weird glare ...

... part songs. Miss Jane Jones also read a paper. SHIPPING.On Monday evening the Mervinia arrived at the harbour. It was whilst this ship was entering one of the London ports, that the late Captain Jones lost his life. The Sarah Davies (owner Captain Thomas ...

... GENERAL llEJVS. | An official statement issued by the directors of the Manchester Ship Canal Company estimates that on the 1st January next there will be an avail- able balance of E381,515, in addition to the 2,600 acres of surplus land, which is increasing ...

... concert was given at the Assembly Rooms in aid of the local fund for the widows and orphans of the persons who lost their lives on board the above ship. All the expenses of the concert were defrayed by Capt. Farrar, so that the whole proceeds will be handed ...

... of his liberty. A disastrous collision at sea is reported, the British ship Prince Oscar and a vessel uakaewn having collided and sunk. Six of the crew of the Prince Oscar were lost, and all on board the other vessel are supposed to have gone down. A Mrs ...

... majority. He regretted that Sir William Harcourt had given up the leader- ship of the Liberal party, and felt that in the death of Mr T E Ellis the temper- ance cause had lost one of its best advocates. The fact that Mr Herbert Gladstone had been won ...