Uncertain Wages and Debates Stir Dublin to London News
The report surveys a string of early social issues. Bankruptcy petitions surge as new laws loom, women seek town council roles but face legal limits, and unemployed protests plan a demonstration near Parliament. Public health, education, and armament debates color the metropolitan scene with calls for reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lapres
Thomas
Totnes
Staffordshire Chamber of Agriculture
Stafford
Carrington Smith
Earl of Harrowby
Norris
J. Brown
W. J. Carrington
Lord
Lichfield
England
Ireland
Oxeterman Kn
Onslow
India
Burterjee
Bombay
Daily News
Owens Collect
Manchester
Owens College
A. Waterhouse
Buxton
C. Buxton
Marylebone Board of Guardians
Metropolitan Sick Asylum Board
Brewer
London Fever Hospital
English Mint now under an English superintendent
The Japanese Mint has paused under an English superintendent. Other notes mention Velocipede races end of frost, Pall Mall Gazette to be a 2d morning paper next year, and Mrs. Margaret Shaw of Stamford aged 102. Wrecks reported total 2,439 this year, Colosseum at Regents Park may become an opera house, and Salcombe landing of the England France Atlantic cable shore end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pall Mall Gazette
Stamford Mercury
Margaret Shaw
Colosseum
Regents Park
England
Salcombe
Devon
Columbia
Corporation of Liverpool
Blackfriars
Queensland
Wellington
Cairo
Ill
North-Eastern Company
York
Malton
Wapping
Shadwell
Thames Tunnel
New Cross
Scarlatina
London
Mile
Old Town
Hex Majesty
Duchess of Athole
Nimmo and Son
Airdrie
Edinburgh
Balmoral
Balmoral Castle
Dankeld
Taymouth
Burns
Births and marriages from early December notices
Births announce the birth of a son to the wife of the Rev J Farren of Bermondsey. Multiple marriages listed on dates from November 24 to December 4 at chapels and churches in Huddersfield Manchester Oldham Stretford Huddersfield Leeds Birmingham Long Ashton Bradford and Acton. Death notices for Sinks Heather Finch Olney Hume Milnes Bousfield Woodman Longwill Rogers and others filed with ages and residences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farren
J. Farren
Bermondsey
Marriaghs
Hepworth—Hall
Salendine Noak Baptist Chapel
Huddersfield
J. Parker
Wm. Hepworth
Crosland Moor
Annd
Abraham Hall
Enq
Lindley
Newton — Wemyss
Zion Chapel
Stretford-road
Manchester
J. Gwyther
Edward Newton
Caroline Wemyss
Hutchen—Winstanley
Congregational
Huyton
R C. Jessop
Samuel Hutchen
Margaret
Henry Winstanley
Prescot
Radford—Gay
John Charles
Charles Anderson
Elizabeth
Edward Clayton
Barker—Clough
Queen Street Chapel
John Barker
Woodfield House
Mirfield
Mary Jane Clough
Thos. Blenkhorn
Woodland House
Aspley
Greenwood
Bramley
Bel
Porritt~wild
Stubbina Congregational Church
T. Cain
John Austin Porritt
Stubbins Vale
Elizabeth M*‘Lean
William Wild
Springfield House
Shuttleworth
Cullimore
Whitfield
Thornbury
Ann
James Vincent
Long Ashton
Kellett Wilkinson
Sion Baptist Chapel
Bradford
J. P. Chown
Simeon Kellett
Sarah Wilkinson
Wike
Sinkins
Wallbridge House
Frome
Somerset
John Sinkins
J.P
Heather
Gloucester Road
Regent’s Park
George Heather
London and Westminster Bank
Kensington and Cheapside
Finch
Heathside
Tunbridge Wells
Frances Jane
John Finch
Olney
Thomas Olney
Metropolitan Tabernacle
Norwood Cemetery
Brock
Hume
Dewar-place
Edinburgh
Margaret Scott
William Hume
Woodman
Little Haven
Ebenezer Flood Woodman
Walton West
Talbenny
Pembrokeshire
London
Longwill
Bath Street
Glasgow
Martha Roxburgh
D. Longwill
Bromley
Kent
Rogers
Foresthill
Anna
Thomas Rogers
Broadway
Worcestershire
J. G. Rogers
Clapham
Bank of England accounts and a Hollo way family ad
The Gazette lists the Bank of England accounts for the week ending December 1 with notes issued, government debt, deposits, and coin totals. An unrelated ad promotes Hollo way’s pills as a cure for illness by purifying blood and improving bodily functions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank OF England
Victoria
Issue Department
Hobioway
Hrattay
Holloway
Wheat and grain markets in London steady to lower
CORN EXCHANGE London reports a light English wheat supply with large foreign arrivals. Demand is limited and English wheat sells slowly from last week’s quotations. Flour sells more freely with a small gain. Peas and barley show declines. Oats arrivals are large, trading dull, with prices down 6d to 1s per qr since last week. Adverse wind reduced cargo arrivals, keeping wheat and maize at late prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corn Exchange
London
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Iiscellaneous
Areps
Hampstead
Admiralty
Thames
St. Giles’s
Whitechapel
Camberwell
Fur
Canon Moultrie
Temple
Christ
Glennings
Bropeiatora Capitalis
Oocekeen
Gero. Forsss
Cashiar
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