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Newspaper
Halifax Gazette
Location
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Date
Sep 08, 1772
Page
5
A patchwork of letters and reports covers European intrigue from Paris to Denmark and Poland with mention of Kingly schemes, Danish succession, naval moves, and parliamentary bills. The piece notes debates in Parliament, ministerial figures, and probes into finance and royal plans amid broader wartime and colonial context.
A dated Halifax dispatch notes ships from London including the Britannia and other ships undergoing yard repairs. It lists Admiralty orders and recruitment hints for royal service, with details of ports Newcastle Leith and Glasgow. The document also describes wartime distresses in the Poursey district and how local counties have suffered from political unrest and depopulation.
Letters report Robert Grant of London, contracting for provisioning His Majesty's Ships, has placed contras for the fleet at Boston and named Alexander Brymer as Halifax contract agent through Bolton and Halifax. The General Assembly is prorogued to February 20. A coasting schooner from Luzenburg loaded with chard wood capsized near the North West Arm but salvage by local boatmen prevented drownings and another schooner towed the vessel to Rous's Cove.
All persons indebted to the estate of the late Benjamin Gronisn and the late Gerrify and Gray are urged to make prompt payments to Gites Tiowansa, administrator. Those with demands on the estate should bring in their accounts for settlement. Halifax, Sept. 8, 1772.
Notice from the Receiver General Joseph Woodmass announces locations and dates for quit rent collection in Windsor Newport Falasuth Horton Cornwallis. Proprietors must attend Wendfr Falmouth Horton Cornwallis to pay rents and bring last year's receipts for quicker dispatch.
The Subscriber from London announces teaching in the small sword and cut and thrust after the best method, French language in all branches, and various dancing styles. Applicants may visit at Corger Hours facing the Train Barracks on the Parade, Halifax, to receive instruction with fidelity and dispatch.
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