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  2. THE FRENCH EXPEDITION TO THE NEW HEBRIDES.

    The Dives (Commander Legrand) left our harbour on Sunday morning (May 30). The Magellan set out yesterday (Tuesday). These two men-of-war have been despatched to the New Hebrides, after having taken on board ...

    Article : 1,480 words
  3. REVIEWS.

    Mr. Morley is perliaps chief doctor of the present school of critical writers who exercise a certain Nobechadnezzarship over defunet authors. Whom they will they set up, and whom they will they put down; and ...

    Article : 2,053 words
  4. CONTINENTAL GOSSIP.

    The various ecclesiastical functions of Passion, Week have gone on in the usual style. On Sunday, the sale in the street of this city, of the sprigs of consecrated boxwood that do duty each year as "palms," amounted ...

    Article : 2,284 words
  5. ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE MAIL.

    The foundation for the statement that Lord Wolseley had expressed his determination to throw up his commission in order to load the Ulster Loyalists, in the event of the Home Rule Bill becoming law, is a speech made by Mr. William ...

    Article : 539 words
  6. New Zealand: Rulers and Statesmen. 1840 to 1885. By WILLIAM GISBORNE. London: Sampson Low and Co. 1886.

    Mr. William Gisborne, the author of this book, has purposed by it "primarily to give short sketches of the loading public men in New Zealand, and secondarily to interweave with those sketches some account of the ...

    Article : 1,528 words
  7. THE AGENTS-GENERAL AT THE MANSION HOUSE.

    The Lord Mayor invited the whole of the Agents-General for the Colonies to the customary Easter banquet at the Mansion House on May 4. The toast of "Our Colonial and Indian Possessions" was received with enthusiasm. ...

    Article : 141 words
  8. NEW CALEDONIA.

    Our new Governor arrived from Cochin China via Sydney on Saturday last by the Dupleix. The town was en fete, flags flying in all directions, and the quay was lined with people to receive him, and as he stepped ...

    Article : 471 words
  9. INDIAN AND COLONIAL VISITORS TO SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE.

    A lotter from the Duke of Abercorn was read at a meeting of the Stratford-on-Avon Town Council on May 5, intimating that a large party of distinguished Indian and colonial visitors, who would be in London during the ...

    Article : 171 words
  10. THE ANARCHISTS IN THE UNITED STATES.

    The New York Sun of May 3 devotes two and a-half conspicuous columns to the history of Johann Most's career in America, the doctrines he touches, and the practices of his disciples, as shown in the suspicious number and ...

    Article : 270 words
  11. FATAL FIRE AT A THEATRE.

    The Grand Theatre at Derby was totally destroyed by fire on the night of May 6 just before the time at which a performance was to be given by Mr. Edward Torry and his company, The fire is said to have originated in a gas ...

    Article : 240 words
  12. CARRIER PIGEONS AS MESSENGERS IN WAR TIME.

    Some practical and very interesting experiments with pigeons as war messengers were commenced at Dover on Saturday in connection with the Easter manoeuvres, the experiments being conducted within the cognisance of the ...

    Article : 526 words
  13. LATER NEWS.

    The Dives anchored in the harbour at 1.30 this afternoon, having arrived from the New Hebrides. On the 1st June, at 6 o'clock in the morning, a military post, composed of troops of infantry of the marine, disembarked ...

    Article : 530 words
  14. BURSTING OF A FORTY-THREE-TON GUN.

    The Collingwood, new barbette ship, went out of Portsmouth Harbour on May 4 for a trial of her guns and machinery. The proceedings went on satisfactorily for some time. The right 43-ton gun in the after barbette was ...

    Article : 461 words
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