West Indies affairs, mining booms and African mail steamer reports
The report covers Crimean attentions and local tax acts in the Cape of Good Hope, then details mining optimism in Namaqualand with 11 000 applications for 5 000 shares. It notes the Bacchante delivering mails, gold dust, and passengers, plus Niger exploration aboard the Pleiad and updates on naval ships and explorers Baikie, Barth, and Vogel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Indies
Crimea
House of Assembly
Cape OF Good Hope
Eagle Mining Company
Namaqualand
Africa
Dring
Portsmouth Harbour
Fernando Po
Camaroons
Old Calabar
Bonny
Lagos
Accra
Cape Coast Castle
Sierra Leone
Bathurst
Reginald
J. J. G. Macdonald
R.N
Mount Edgcumbe
Niger
England
Adams
H Majesty
Dolphin
Britomart
Captain Macdonald
Baikie
Kurra
Tshadna
Bacchante
Australia trade and commmerce outlook and Melbourne cargoes
Australia faces a cautious trade recovery as the month shows smaller London shipments directed mainly to Melbourne and Geelong. Nineteen vessels carried cargo valued at £190,781, a large drop from last month, with many ships listed from London Liverpool and Glasgow bound for Melbourne Geelong and other ports. Complaints rise over cheese quality due to shipping timing and seasonal knowledge. merchants urged to use colonial-importers for properly conditioned ham and cheese. The Times is celebrated alongside the Argus as leading papers in Britain and Australia, with high office costs claimed for Messrs Kerrow and Wilson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
London
Melbourne
Great Britain
Geelong
The
Kandanghank
Amsterdam
Fleetering
Wycliffe
Zwalow
Sea King
Ravenstraig
H. G C. Kidson
Liverpool
Annie Wilson
Blue Jacket
Altonia
Clangregor
Salem
Boomerang
Hotspur
Mermaid
Hero
Gloucester
Tornado
Glasgow
Williams
Wallace
Napoleon NE
Alma
Leith
England
Times
Argus
Messrs. M.kerrow
Wilson
London Neighbourhood Notes and Meetings In February
A London page of varied items covers property sale talk on the South Sea House site in Threadneedle Street, sewer and drainage discussions, Jerusalem lecture views, lectures on ancient history by Luke Burke, a London crime anecdote of pickpocket tactics, horticultural society remarks, mortality statistics and New Year’s social events. Also reported are a charity bequest, ragged schools fundraising, a fire at Mile Terrace Park Road, weather observations, exams for medical and naval posts, and an inquest into John Bacon’s death after a shooting incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Sea
Threadneedle-Street
Land Society
South’ Sea Company
Harley
Earl of Oxford
Commissioners’ of Sewers
John Shelley
Baronet
Thames
Thwaites
Offer
Ward
Johnson
Harrison
Uing
Our
Brentford
John Hamilton
Toe Barrine
Jerusalem
Mr. Carpenter
England
PalmeraLaxp
Luke Burke
Marylebone Literary Institution
Antiquarian Scicner
London
Hounslowheath
Hortiotteral Society
Regent-street
Lawrence Sullivan
Mary Anna Billington
No. 1
Davidge-terrace
Lambeth
Doctors’commons
Female Orphan
Westminster Road
Lambeth Pension Society
St. Mary’s
Expime
George Thompson
M.P
Tower Hamlets
J. Hamilton
W. Leask
Christian Weekly News
Thompson
Hamilton
Tuy Cristav Palace
Bridge-house
London-bridge
Robert Gill
Charles Geach
Racceo Scuoers
Exeter Hall
Thomas Guthrie
Great Britain
Ragged School
Advocate
Finn Ar Peeonttan
Mile Terrace
Park Road
New Peckham
Jones
Kent Company
Southwark
Royal Humane Society
Hydepark
St. James’s Park
Parsons
Hyde Park
Williams
Murphy
Hyde-park
Albertgate
Grosvenor Place
Kensington Gardens
Regent’s Park
River Thames
Messrs
George Hayward
Sheffield
William Randall Mackley
Bradford
Yorkshire
George Raymond Trevor
Hon
East India Company
Madras
Robert Rawlinson Harris
Tottington
Bury
Lancashire
Augustus Crabbins Webb Great-Rex
Taunton
Somerset
William Downes
Mount-street
Grosvenor Square
John Moore
May
County Tyrone
Henry Charles Andrews
Braborne
Ashford
Kent
Henry Colgate Holman
East Hathley
Sussex
Joseph King
C. J. Carter
West Kent
William the Fourth
Greenwich
John Bacon
Tyser
Bradley
Deptford
Extraordinary Frauds at Shiffnal Bank Uncovered
A special general meeting of bank proprietors at Shiffnal reviewed the directors report on the Shiffnal branch defalcations. The loss is now put at 160,000 pounds, with William Allen the primary defaulter. Allen has since left the area amid the probe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suropssivee Bank
Shiffnal
William Allen
Thomas Gilbert
Gloucester
Great Western and South Wales Railway
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rson
the Provinces
Lansdown Road
Walcot Church
Bath
Guinea-lane
Julia
Commodus
Ruasell-street
Marti
Wright
Messexcer
Harding
Manchester District Court of Bankruptcy
Jemmett
Newport
Monmouthshire
Henry Box Brown
America
Richmond
Philadelphia
Brown
Hannah More
Donald Nicoll
George Hote
Nicoll
W. Thompson
Edwin ‘Bush
Mni
Magesty
Peninsular and Oriental Company
Madrid
Southampton
Gibraltar
Hecla
Hawker
Catterina
Daye
Genoa
Devil’s Tower
Monte
Saxediss
Catherine Bacon
Trates Gedy
Matthews
Bacon
Elizabeth Laws
Thas
Jté
Barnabas Howse
Barbers Sand
Norfolk
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