London Week by Week May Weather and Court Highlights
Londoners endured May’s fickle weather as the Australian cricket tour opened at Crystal Palace with rain postponing play. The Week covered a glittering Court and Academy season with portraits, Sargent works, and royal observations, plus Irish parliamentary drama and social scenes around Buckingham Palace.
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Crystal Palace
Court
Buckingham Palace Road
Constitution Hill
Palace
Sousa
London
Park
Westminster Tower
Everluz
Prince and Princess of Wales
Cmmand
Old Times Notes From the City Council and Colonies
A muddled afternoon session looms as the City Council considers rescinding a motion and expressing views on the mayoral conduct. The issue list includes local disputes, police debates, and community notices amid a broad column of colonial news from Sydney and surrounding settlements.
William IV Coronation Dispute at Privy Council Over Ceremony
A London paper reports a heated Privy Council fight over William IVs Coronation service. Bishops resisted curtailment while William objected to being kissed by prelates, ordering cuts. The archbishop remonstrated and the king relented with poor grace, drawing remark at Levee about an officer.
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Privy Council
London
Isymen
William IV
Edward
William
Lord Brougham
Committee of the Privy Council
Howley
Blomfield
American industrial output rankings from 1900 census
The United States industrial census shows textiles leading production in 1900 with woollens £80 million, cottons £68 million, and other textiles £194 million total. Iron and steel output £167 million. slaughtering £147 million. lumber and others follow, shipbuilding valued at £15 million. Overall annual manufacturing value estimated at £2.5 billion.
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United States
Pierpont Morgan
The Duke of Cambridge and a Century of Change
A compact retrospective notes the Duke of Cambridge entering his fourth year and surveys his long public life through the Victorian era and earlier reigns. It cites 1810 gas street illumination at Covent Garden, Liverpool steamship novelty, the opening of Southwark Bridge, Gravesend surgeon and priest to Napoleon, and a £50,000 parliamentary grant for colonial settlements on Cape of Good Hope and Australasia.
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Weekes
Flood
Legislative Council
Daniel Cooper
Waterloo
George and
Market Streets
H— M
J— T
R—. Jones
Carlos A. Fitz-Roy
Eaid
HLM
Cape of Good Hope
England
Cockatoo Island
Campbell
Mayor Inn
Pitt-street
Sydney
Tosa
Central Criminal Court
Thomas Morgan
Charles Coleman
Richard Hampden
Shoalhaven
William Hyde
Applewaite
N.Z
Hokianga River
Southern Cross
William Robinson
HMLS
Acheron
Devell
J. G. Cohen
Messia, Smith, Campbell, and Company
Want
Turon
Louisa
George A. Lloyd
Bell's Creek
Balmain
Erskine-street
Gas Company
Entwistie
Marshall
St. John’s
E. Rowling
J. M’manis
Australia
Reformed Church of England
Parramatta
Great Britain
Trelam
N.8
S.W
Liverpool
Smith Brothers and Company
Sussex-street
Phillip Mylecharane
Golden Gully
Bathurst
Bathurst Free Press
Harriett
Webster
Kamehameha III
Hawaii
Honolulu
Clarence
Wiseman
Baird
Clarence River Company
Armstrong
W.S
Aucrion
Hunter-street
Talisman
Henry Mason
Templar
Calcutta
Edward Hammond Hargraves
Petersham
Messrs
Parkins and Lambert
Newtown
Cook's River Ronda
Johnston
Annandale
Josephson
Smidmore
St. Peter's Church
Brisbane Water
Charles Winteman
Gosford
Dodds
Maitland
Piecton
Mount Prudhoe
Picton
Razorback
Chester
South Head
Duke of Cambridge
George IV
William IV
George II
Edward VII
Covent Garden
Southwark Bridge
Gravesend
Napoleon
St Helena
Colony of
Cape of God Hope
Australasian
Berlin tests devices to prevent tramway injuries
A device using a revolving front cylinder to gently push aside a person struck by a tramcar was tested in Berlin and deemed satisfactory. Bugler Dunne, awarded a silver bugle for gallantry at Colenso, leaves the army due to ill health after a warm Dover farewell. Delinquents who greeted him were later sentenced to one week’s imprisonment by a regimental court.
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Berlin
Dunne
Colenso Pr
Queen Victorias
Dover
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Mme. Taamud
Burge
Goodle
Lewes
Prabenty Peseuey Gemend
Papa
Princess of Wales
Devonshire
Beryl Dawnay
Norah Dawnay
Duchess of Bedford
Louis Selze
Rosie
Marchioness
Wheaidfort
Gran’ Ma Headfort
Marquis
Maisie
Daisy
Gaiety” Brigade
Piermont Morgan
Thames
America
Prince of Wales
Royal Academy
George
Burlington House
Academy
Sargent
Ladies Acheson
Misses Hunter
A. Wertheimer
Secrets
Tom Roberts
Judge Windeyer
Mr. Roberts
Duke of Portland
Luke Fildes
Teddy Rex
National Gallery
British Museum
Kensington
Phil May
J. J. Shannon
Phil
Connie Ediss
Mrs. Langtry
Jeanne
Hlr.l
Jersey
Jeanne Langtry
House of Commons
Chamberlain
Dillon
Mooney
Dublin
Merting
John Redmond
Balfour
Mr. Gully
Lord Salisbury
Albert Hall
Mansion House
Gwendolen Cecil
Primrose League
Beatrice
Muriel
Bessie Griffiths
Muriel Griffiths
Selwood Sydney Simpson
West Australia
James Graham
N.S.W
Edinburgh
Buckingham Palace
Lohengrin
Madame Nordica
God Save the King
Denmark
Onlin
Marylebone
Barrack Square
Addick
Wollongong
Archibald Osborne
J. Williams
William-street
Woolloomooloo
John Hill
F. Campbell
St. James's Church
GC. F. Priddle
George Bowles
Martha Bickerstaff
Fullerton
T. B. Perry
Penrith
Anne
John Moore
Parramat
St. Lawrence Church
Dney
Hannah M'Cullough
South Head-road
John Jamison Brown
Hermitage
Jamberoo
Braidwood
Alworth
Mr. Allen
Anaby
George Wilson
B.N
Susannah Vickers
George Pickering
Samuel Prout
Prout
Port Macquarie
Elizabeth
J. M. Wilson
Commissariat Department
Mary
W. Cummings
Charles Cartwright
Mary Ann Campbell Fisk
Captain Fisk
North Shore
William Todd
Elizsabeth-street
Joseph Samuel Hanson
Elizabeth-street
Strawberry Hills
Erwin
Favorite
J. Stericker
James Sandy & CO
George Street
Duresco
J.w.johnston & CO
George St
Haymarket
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