 
    Owing to deaths and official promotions, several elections to Parliament are now pending. Mr. Cavendish Bentinck is returned for Whitehaven. Mr. Hurst, a Liberal, was returned for Horsham, with ...
Article : 52 wordsThe mail steamship China arrived at five o'clock. Mr. Brookes, commander; Mr. Bayley, purser. The passage was delayed by eccentric link of the forward engine breaking on 4th and 6th instant. ...
Article : 88 wordsOn Thursday evening, the Rev. Dr. White, of Singleton, delivered a lecture at the Mechanics' Institute, Singleton, upon the education question. The attendance was small, owing[?]to the threatening ...
Article : 2,419 wordsTHE WEATHER AT BATHURST.—Since Friday last the weather in Bathurst has been exceedingly hot, the heat on Sunday and Monday especially being excessive. Yesterday a dry, scorching wind ...
Article : 980 wordsLieutenant Cameron, after an absence of eighteen months since leaving Ujiji, reached Loango in safety on 18th November, with fifty followers He has crossed the continent, from[?]east to west, at the head ...
Article : 41 wordsThe four directors, the manager, and the submanager of a city and county bank, charged with publishing false prospectuses and balance-sheets, have been committed for trial, bail being accepted. ...
Article : 35 wordsIn an action brought by Willis ond Son, shipowners, against Dr. Featherstone, for declining to use the Zenobia as an emigrant ship, after it had been unfavourably reported on, the verdict was for ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Italian Geographical Society has resolved to send an exploring expedition to Equatorial Africa at the end of January. ...
Article : 22 wordsTwo men, only survivors of the brig Dagmar, have arrived at Liverpool with a story of suffering similar to that narrated in connection with the Cospatrick twelve months ago. ...
Article : 566 wordsThe Board of the Severn Conservators have granted permission to Frank Buckland to take salmon ova from the Severn for export to Australia and New Zealand. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Eastern Telographic Comprimes have been authorized by their shareholders to duplicate their lines between Raugoon and Penang, and between Suez and Bombay. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 wordsProfessor Max Muller has resigned the Chair of Comparative Philology at Oxford, and will leave England early next year. The King of Bavaria has bestowed on him Knighthood of the Order of ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. C. S, Read, member for South Norfolk, finding resistance to agricultural reforms on the part of his colleagues insuperable, has retired from the Government. He is using his recovered freedom in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 wordsThe Right Hon. Stephen Cave, Paymaster-General has proceeded to Egypt on a special mission connected with the Khedive's finances. Colonel Stokes, Mr. Victor Buckley, of Foreign Office; Mr. White, ...
Article : 53 wordsWe (S. M. Herald) are in receipt of Auckland papers to the 28th January. In the New Zealand Gazette issued on the 13th January is published a list of the officiating ...
Article : 744 wordsTwo vacancies having occurred in the London School Board through resignation and death, Mr. Taverner Miller was returned without opposition for Westminster, and Rev. Mark Wilks, Nonconformist, ...
Article : 39 wordsMessrs. Rothschild have contributed £1000 towards the erection of the now West-end synagogue. The subscriptions have now reached £4000. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. Proctor, astronomical writer, has seceded from the Romish Church. Bishop Jermyn, of Colombo, succeeds Bishop Forbes in the see of Brechin. ...
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Advertising : 691 wordsA statue of Cromwell, modelled by Noble, and costing £1600, has been presented to Manchester by Mrs. Abel Haywood. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Municipal Council of Paris has reduced from 50,000 to 30,000 francs the grant for sending workmen to the Philadelphia Exhibition. A NEW FLYING-MACHINE. ...
Article : 83 wordsMAIDEN PLATE.—Kosciusko 1, Nightshade 2. Only two started. Won by fourteen lengths. SELLING STAKES.—Comet 1, Joe Miller 2, Prima Donna 3. Won by a short neck. ...
Article : 70 wordsAt the Admirality, designs for several new ships are in preparation, for the construction of which tenders will be invited from private yards. Som[?] large vessels are also being laid down in the Royal ...
Article : 241 wordsBusiness generally has improved slightly during the last week, although there are no great changed to report as having taken place in prices. In breadstuffs wheat is scarce, in fact there is no ...
Article : 1,008 wordsAUSTRALIAN CUP.—The following are the acceptances:—Goshawk, Haricot, Irish Stew, Strop, Bella, Day Break, Emulation, Loquacity, Protomartyr, Maid of All Work, Feu d[?]Artifice, Cleolite, Waxy, ...
Article : 90 wordsThe weather was cloudy and cool, and the attendance large. The Governor drove a four-in-hand to the course, nearly a dozen fours following in line, with numerous vehicles in the rear, forming a ...
Article : 142 wordsAt the Metropolitan Christmas Cattle Market, this year, 7000 beasts were sold as against 6500 last year. Of the number sold 2000 were Aberdeen cattle. Lincolns also were largely represented. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Queen's annual sale of fat stock took place at her Majesty's model farm, Windsor Park. The animals sold comprised forty-two Shorthorn and Scotch oxen and heifers and 400 wether sheep ...
Article : 70 wordsFeb. 15.—William L. Vardy, of Sydney, solicitor. Liabilities, £33 19s. 8d. Assets, £25 1s. 10d. Mr. Lyons, official assignee. Just as the Prince of Wales goes to visit ...
Article : 173 wordsThe extravagant price of meat is again a subject of public discussion. Many persons attribute it largely to the rigid restrictions placed by the Government on the importation of foreign cattle. It was ...
Article : 93 wordsThe bill for the new railway from London to Brighton, between London and Brighton, has been prepared, and the capital of £2,100,000 subscribed. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe American Jubilee Singers are fulfilling a series of engagements in the North of England. They have, been hospitably entertained by the Hon. W. E. Gladstone, at Harwarden Castle. ...
Article : 36 wordsAnother revolt against the enroachments of Lords of Manors has occurred on Hackney Downs, where posts and iron rails enclosing stolen land were torn down and destroyed. The police were powerles[?]. ...
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