Tag: 1893

Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser: Friday 2nd June 1893

St. George’s Congregational Church: Anniversary Service: … On Wednesday evening the annual meeting of the church was held under the chairmanship of the Mayor, Mr. W. F. Splatt. There was a good attendance, and those present on the platform were the Rev. A. C. Gill, the Rev. R. Olver, Brixham, the Rev. J. Aylard, Paignton, Alderman Richardson, M.D, Mr. Aitken, Mrs. A. Kieser, Mr. Knight, Mr. Pinsent, Mr. R. J. Parr, Mr. Kennedy (Brizham,) Mr. Joyce, Mr. Viccars, Mr. Glyn, and Mr. Cole. About one hundred and fifty persons attended the public tea provided in the church. The tables were presided over by several lady members of the congregation. The Mayor, who was enthusiastically received, remarked that since his acquisition of the honourable office of Mayor of this important Borough, he had been asked to do many things which we willingly competed with, believing that it was in the general interest of the various parties concerned, and also to the town … (continues) …

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Birmingham Daily Post: Saturday 27th May 1893

By order of the Executors of the late Mr. H. J. Hookham: Unreserved Sale of Capital Household Furniture and Affects: At Woodside, Mayfield Road, Moseley, by Messrs Frank Smith & Wilson, on Friday, June 16, 1893, at eleven a.m., punctually, the household furniture and appointments of the above residence comprising … (long list) … Descriptive catalogues ten days prior to sale, of Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., Solicitors, Waterloo Street …

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Birmingham Daily Post: Saturday 27th May 1893

Sale of Leasehold Ground Rents and a Contingent Interest in £2,573: Messrs. Thomas Howell & Co. will sell by auction at the Grand Hotel, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Tuesday next, May 30, at six in the evening subject to condition incorporating the common form conditions of the Birmingham Law Society, the under-mentioned valuable leasehold ground rents … (Lot 1, eight leasehold rent on Summer Lane; Lot 2, twenty one villa residences on Beaufort Road, Edgbaston and) Lot 3, In Bankruptcy, Re. William Southon (by order of Luke J. Sharp, Esq., Official Receiver) and under special conditions the contingent interest of the bankrupt under the will of the late Anne Charlton Barrett, which entitles him to receive on the 13th May 1897, subject to certain events, one fourth share of the deceased’s residuary estate, with the accumulated interest thereon at present amounting to about, 2573 … For further particulars as to Lot 3, to Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., Solicitors, Waterloo Street …

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Trowbridge Chronicle: Saturday 27th May 1893

A Reuter’s telegram from St. John’s states that Sir James Winter will succeed the late Sir Robert Pinsent as Assistant Judge of Newfoundland.

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Civil & Military Gazette (Pakistan): Saturday 27th May 1893

Home Obituary of the Week: … The death is announced of Sir Robert John Pinsent, D. C. L, Judge of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland. He was the son of the late Judge Pinsent, of Labrador, and was born in 1834. He was called to the Bar of Newfoundland in 1856, became Q. C. in 1865. and Solicitor- General in 1873. He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court in 1880, when he received the honour of knighthood….

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Colonies and India: Saturday 27th May 1893

Sir James Winter, formerly Attorney-General, and lately Leader of the Opposition in the Newfoundland Legislature, has been appointed to the position of Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court, vacant by the death of Sir Robert J. Pinsent. The new Judge has long been a leader of the Newfoundland Bar and has on several important occasions served the Colony with distinction. He represented Newfoundland at the Fisheries Conference at Washington in 1887, and in 1892 he was counsel in the celebrated case of Baird v. Walker, which arose out of the closing of a lobster factory by Captain Walker, of the cruiser Emerald.

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Birmingham Daily Post: Wednesday 24th May 1893

Newfoundland: St. John’s, May 23: H.M.S. Cleopatra and Buzzard arrived today. The House of Assembly last night passed an Act extending the temporary arrangement regarding the French treaties for two years longer, in order to permit negotiations for the passing of a permanent Act. Sir James Winter will succeed the late Sir Robert Pinsent as assistant judge of Newfoundland.

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Echo (London): Wednesday 24th May 1893

Sir James Winter has been told he will succeed the late Sir Robert Pinsent as Assistant Judge of Newfoundland. …

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London Standard: Wednesday 24th May 1893

It is announced that Sir James Winter will succeed the late Sir Robert Pinsent as Assistant Judge of Newfoundland.

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Birmingham Daily Post: Thursday 18th May 1893

To Bedstead Makers, Manufacturers, Engineers and Others: For sale by private treaty, engine, boiler, shafts, lathes, presses, punching and shearing machines, shaping machine and other bedstead plant machinery and tools; office furniture, gas fittings etc … For catalogue of machinery and full particulars of works, apply to the Bedstead Works, Sampson Road North, or to Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., Solicitors, Birmingham.

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