Defense Stresses Honesty in Gurney Case Amid Market Collapse
In a packed courtroom, counsel for the Gurneys and associates deny fraud, arguing that balance sheets were kept, capital was misrepresented only by misfortune, and that the bank rate and market crash ruined the venture. They maintain their clients acted honorably and faced ruin through circumstances beyond control, as the judge warns against further emotional interruptions.
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South Sea
Howell
Harding
Turquand
Overend
Gurney
Jones
Stock Exchange
Ablic
Gurneys
Mellish
Barclay
J. Karslake
Gordon
Mr. Giffard
Rennie
Queen Victoria Street Name Planned for New Thames Line
The name Queen Victoria street will be applied to the new street line running from the Thames Embankment to the Mansion House, marking a modern urban naming decision in central London.
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Thames Embankment
Mansion House
Recent Storms and Floods Leave Wreckage and Sorrow
Reports from gales and rain recountship losses and flooding across the region. A tragic incident off Sheerness saw five children drown after a barge was struck by waves while the master and sister were rescued. Floods inundate Nottingham and Oxford areas as rivers rise to historic levels. bulwarks and decks wash away on numerous vessels and many ships seek shelter.
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Sheerness
Grain Spit
Charles Chapman
Chapman
Smack
Charles
Charles Albert
Alice
Alfred
James
Aldershot
Haydn
Victoria Hall
Exeter
Lloyd’s
Withernsea
Yorkshire
Wakefield
Calder
Midland
Trent
Derwent
Nottingham
Oxford
Death of the Welsh fasting girl ends murky case
The Welsh fasting girl Sarah Jacobs died after eight days under nurse supervision from Guy’s Hospital observers. An inquest at Carmarthen heard a post mortem find a well formed body, no brain paralysis, no digestive blockage, and hysteria suspected. the inquest adjourned to Thursday.
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Guy’s Hospital
Sarah Jacobs
Carmarthen
Thomas
Phillips
Davis
Massive fir felled in Hungary to become mast in Hamburg
A 139 foot high fir tree with a 71 inch diameter from the Zichy family forest at Arna Hungary has been felled and shipped to Hamburg to be formed into a sailing mast.
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Zichy
Arna
Hungary
Hamburg
Court and Royal News From Windsor to Parliament
Her Majesty with Princesses Louise and Beatrice left Windsor for Osborne to pass Christmas. The Queen sent pheasants to London hospitals and the Princess of Wales was churched. The Premier Gladstone recovered at Hawarden while investigations touch Irish Land Bill and Educational reforms.
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Louise
Beatrice
Windsor Castle
Osborne
Prince Leopold
London
Princess of Wales
Chapel Royal
St. James’s
Prince of Wales
Sandringham
Gladstone
Hawarden Castle
Flintshire
Childers
Echo
Archbishop of Canterbury
Lord Derby
Bright
E. Stanley Jones
Ernest Jones
Register-General of Seamen’s Office
Pall Mall Gazette
Post Office
Treasury
the Times
Royal Artillery
Malta
Gibraltar
Royal Marines
Chatham
3Rd West India Regiment
The
Morning Herald
Lord Cairns
England
Privy Council
Stafford Northcote
Stafford
Paris
Lord Napier
Magdala
Scotland
Earl
Lord Crawford
House of Lords
Baron Wigan
Lord Lindsay
Horse Guards
Harvey Lewin
St. Pancras
House of Commons
Monarch
United States
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Peabody
Rumoured Manchester Weekly Paper The Blome
A new weekly paper planned in Manchester named The Blome with Miss Lydia Becker as editor. Women will work as compositors using the American type setting machine, promising about one third current prices for work.
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Manchester
Lydia Becker
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