Shipwreck and Great Loss of Life.
Very severe hurricanes, accompanied by heavy falls of snow, has been experienced over the greater part of Scotlaud during the past 24 hours, and great damage has been done to property. Terrific gales have raged on the coast, and numerous shipwrecks, resulting in great loss of life, has been caused. So far as can be at present ascertained, fully one hundred persons are known to have been drowned in vessels which have (ouudered at the ports and off the coast.
The Irish Judges of ..ssize, in their charges to the Grand Juries at the Courts, which opened yesterday in ihe Irish Provinces, again took occasion to refer to the alarming state of the country, and deplored in forcible terms the continued occurrence of an enormous amount of undetected crime. Capetown, March 8. Intelligence has been received from Natal that, taking advantage of the provisions of the armistice with the Boers, Sir Evelyn Wood has already dispatched convoys of provisions to the British garrisons at Pretoria, Wakkerstroom, Standestor, and other places in the Transvaal.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3805, 9 March 1881, Page 2
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179Shipwreck and Great Loss of Life. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3805, 9 March 1881, Page 2
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