The New York Society of Medical Jurisprudence petitions for a law to compel the cremating of the bodies of all who die of a contagious disease. Between 1875 and 1883 the amount of capital embarked in electric lighting companies of various kinds in Great Britain was .£12,919,264. A strike of tramcar drivers took place in New York last week in consequence of the managers refusing a reduction in the hours of labour to twelve hours a day. • Her Majesty the Queen, it is amongst her many other accomplishments, is acquainted with the manual deaf and dumb alphabet, and the stood, here in good stead' whanthe Queen received, probably for the first time, a deaf mute, in the person of Rev R. A. Pearce, who was so honoured in recognition of his successful work among the deaf mutes in the diocese of Winchester —in which Osborne ia included
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXV, Issue 7838, 19 April 1886, Page 3
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