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  3. SUEZ MAIL EXTRACTS.

    The Money Market has again been very easy, the supply of money having been considerably increased by the payment of the dividends. The rate of the discount for three months' bank bills was about 1-16 ...

    Article : 305 words
  4. A SINGULAR NOBLE LADY.

    One sees every day in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, an old lady striving to be young, 60 vainly aping the bloom and brightness of 16. This, writes a correspondent, is the Viscountess Vigier, the ...

    Article : 220 words
  5. COCKS MUST NOT CROW.

    The cock-crowing nuisance in London has received a wholesome check from the proceedings in a case which came before the Middlesex Sessions the other day. A bill had been preferred against ...

    Article : 238 words
  6. THE WOOL MARKET.

    Messrs. Helmuth Schwartz and Co. reported on October 4:—The fourth series of London sales of Colonial wool which commenced on Sept. 7 closed on October 2, the following quantities having been ...

    Article : 434 words
  7. KAULBARS.

    For the present Russia seems to have been foiled in Bulgaria. General Kaulbars' mission has been a complete failure, no less from the preposterous nature of his proposals than from the arrogant and ...

    Article : 190 words
  8. THE JUBILEE EXHIBITION IN MANCHESTER.

    The Manchester people are not allowing the grass to grow under their feet in regard to the Royal Jubilee Exhibition. The site is at Old Trafford, adjoining the Botanical Gardens, and close to ...

    Article : 279 words
  9. SCOTTISH HOME RULE.

    Home Rule is gaining ground in Scotland. Mr. Gladstone has written a letter to the secretary of the National Liberal Federation of Scotland with regard to the recent manifesto of the Federation. ...

    Article : 171 words
  10. A FAMOUS SAILOR.

    The death of Admiral Bedford Pim will recall to the memory of a generation that was beginning to forget him a life so busy and so many-sided that his biography seems not so much that of a single ...

    Article : 381 words
  11. A BALKAN CONFEDERATION.

    A startling rumour has become current in certain official circles in Constantinople that a project is on foot for establishing the Bulgarian administrative system on the lines of the Swiss Republic, ...

    Article : 182 words
  12. THE BANK OF AUSTRALASIA.

    The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this bank was held yesterday at 4, Threadneedle-street. The report stated that the net profit for the half-year amounted to £130,145; from this ...

    Article : 368 words
  13. MRS. LANGTRY'S RECEPTION IN NEW YORK.

    Mrs. Langtry's company opened her American campaign on October 4 at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, with "Peril," which was so well received on the previous visit. The audience ...

    Article : 167 words
  14. OTHER COMPANIES.

    The directors of the British and Australasian Trust and Loan Company (Limited) have resolved to pay on the 1st prox. an interim dividend for the half-year ended June 30 of 2s. 6d. per share, being ...

    Article : 184 words
  15. A Shark Story.

    "Don't you do no foolin' with a shark," said a Barnegat fisherman as he crowded tobacca into his pipe for another smoke. "Sharks is an animal as knows more'n you think for. A couple of years ago ...

    Article : 375 words
  16. IMPROVEMENT IN THE STEEL RAIL INDUSTRY.

    It is estimated by the Railway Age that the production of steel rails in the United States in 1886 will be 1,400,000 tons. All the mills are running full time, and most of them have contracts far ...

    Article : 197 words
  17. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.

    The chief political event of the week has been Lord Randolph Churchill's speech at Dartford, where the Chancellor of the Exchequer made bold and open confession of the foreign policy of the ...

    Article : 575 words
  18. A COWARDLY OUTRAGE.

    A Moonlight outrage of a brutal and cowardly nature occurred near King Williamstown, in the county of Cork, on October 4. The victims were two young ladies named Kate and Bridget Jones, ...

    Article : 217 words
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