Bishop slain during voyage to Santa Cruz in Pacific incident
The Daily Southern Cross recounts the captain's account of bishop's murder near Santa Cruz discussed with Captain Atkin. The bishop boarded a shore party, natives fired arrows, and the bishop was found dead in a drifting canoe wrapped in a mat with a palm branch bearing five knots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Cross
Mota
Santa Cruz
Atkin
Wongs
Emma Bell
Reef Islands
Nukapu
Tania
Motu
Mr. Atkin
Stephen
Bouro
John
Bessie
Brook
Mr. Bougard
Auckland
Jacob
Putecini
Cheap Meat Prices Strain Domestic Food Budgets
The rising cost of butcher meat forces families to adjust as prices double from years past. Authors argue higher prices reduce consumption and profits, with beef and mutton costing about a shilling per pound. Domestic economies suffer as wages lag and population grows.
Australia meat on the English market eyed for cheap supplies
The piece outlines how Australia and South America could flood England with surplus meat, noting 60 million sheep and 5.3 million cattle in Australia and New Zealand. It discusses tins versus fresh meat, price effects, and barriers for artisans and small buyers, plus experiments in preserving meat by pressure methods and new companies seeking to export carcases to Europe.
Vacuum preservation promises cheaper imported meats
A new company with a capital of 100,000 in 20,000 shares proposes the vacuum process to preserve poultry, game, fish, and joints of beef and mutton without bone. Refrigeration aims to supersede other methods, though high costs for specially built vessels delay adoption. If solvable, fresh beef from South America and mutton from Australia could reach English shops, boosting meat supplies and potentially lowering prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Australia
Various Imperial News Items From London and Regions
A London column notes moves toward the University College for Wales opening next October and confirms imperial visits by Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie to leave Chislehurst for Torquay. It records gifts to the London Hospital, a queen’s bench appointment for John Richard Quain, and a ten-year sentence for an old thief. Also reported are a Plymouth church tragedy, clergy at a Bishop of Dover meeting rejecting scarves at funerals, Leeds tramway opposition, and army reductions. Other items include Denison's likely peerage, Dublin Catholic resolutions, Ireland’s Education Board reforms, wage protests by railway workers, and a Leicester death at a prayer meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University College For Wales
Napoleon
Eugenie
Chislehurst
Torquay
Samuel Morley
M.P
Ewing Forest
Lambert
Bucks
London Hospital
John Richard Quain
Q.C
Court of Queen’s Bench
United Service Gazette
Denison
Viscount Eversley
Manners Sutton
Canterbury
Dublin
Prince of Wales
C. R. Barry
Ireland
Justice George
Dowse
Serjeant Armstrong
Mr. Palles
Alexander Macdonnell
National Education
Education Board
Forest of Deans
South Wales
Great Western Railway
Wesleyan
Ibstock
Leicester
Thomas Smith
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England
Edward Wilson
New Zealand
Thenited
Tallerman
Liverpool Corporation
Uninetel
Co-Operative
Yorkshire
Lancashire
New South Wales
America
Europe
Mr. Henley
Henley
River Plate Pressure Meat Preserving Company (Limited
Food Preserving Company (Limited
Thebes
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