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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 08, 1870
Page
8
The writer reflects on a three month stay in India, praising Madras as a welcoming port and expressing pride in owing a latitude debt to its people. He bears a message of loyalty to the queen, gratitude for the reception, and heartfelt appreciation of her rule, bidding the Indian people a blessed farewell.
An immense crowd gathered at Epsom for the Derby Day events. Kingcraft defeated Palmerston with Muster third while Macgregor, the strong favourite, finished fourth. The piece notes royal attendance, a theft incident en route, and lively postrace commentary on Derby’s decline as a national holiday.
An MP planned to withdraw his racing bill if the Government would enact a strong measure on the subject. He aligned with the Dean in harsh denunciation of the evils stemming from the current state of the Turf.
The Queen held a Balmoral Council on Saturday and gave a ball Friday night for servants tenants and gillies on Balmoral Abergeldie and Birkhall estates. The Prince of Wales may buy Tollymore Park in Down Ireland. Captain Cameron the British consul in Abyssinia died in Geneva after illness. Bishop Grant of Southwark died in Rome after cancer. Liberal Club plans advance. Death of J Nunneley Leeds surgeon noted for poisoning trials.
A trapeze accident kills a 14 year old at a Taunton circus while London court news cover a would be assassination attempt on MP Charles Buxton, a sleepwalker falls to death in Devon, jewel thefts in Sheffield and a Moorock Lodge arson blamed on reprisal, a Hastings yacht capsizes with multiple drownings, and burglaries plague Forest Hill including Miss Bailey boarding school break in with a midnight meal after stealing valuables.
A gang of thieves, already known in the area, entered a house at six in the morning with tool baskets containing their plunder as workmen. Statements say the upstairs ladies heard the events but could not raise an alarm. Captain Woods Wimbledon prizes also reported taken from his residence. A memorial in Foresthill seeks Colonel Henderson’s protection.
A Putnam clergyman married a couple on a moving train without other passengers noticing. Chapeltown opens a "public house without the drink" promoting tea and reading spaces, hosted by Wesleyan ladies. The Echo and Leeds Mercury discuss forged letters about royal figures and prison reform debates show differing views on treadwheels and inmate labor.
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