Nanaimo
a city of British Columbia, pital of the Nanaimo electoral the capital district. It is situated on Departure Bay, on the east coast of Vancouver Island and on the Esquimault and Nanaimo railway, about 73 miles N. W. of Victoria. Opposite the mainland is Van- railway, about 73 miles N. W. of Viccouver City, with which there is daily steamboat communication. The city is ing industries of British Columbia. It has a handsome county building, a custom house and a Roman Catholic convent. It has manufactories of bricks, machine-shop products, and lumber products. The city was the site of the Hudson's Bay Company block house, built in 1833. Pop. about 10,000.
Dundhu Panth, adopted son of the expeshwa of the Mahrattas, became known as the leader of the Indian Mutiny in 1857; born about 1825. He and educated as a Hindu nobleman. He was the son of a Brahmin in the Deccan, with the English rule, on the outbreak of the mutiny he peshwa, and was responsible for the massacres at Cawnpur (see INDIA).
After the suppression of the rebellion he escaped into Nepal. He died about 1860. was proclaimed After the suppression of the rebellion ital of the province of Kiangsi. The surrounding country is very fertile and the city has important trade in porcelain and other manufactures. about 150,000.
Pop. the city has important trade in porcecapital of the department of Meurtheet-Moselle, on the Meurthe, 220 miles E. of Paris. It comprises, besides several suburbs, the old and new towns, and et-Moselle, on the Meurthe, 220 miles E. islas Leszczynski (1677-1766), twice palace, theater, cathedral (1742), nu- merous churches, the 16th-century ducal and others, and among its noted institutions are the city hall, bishop's palace, theater, cathedral (1742), nu- German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine, palace, a university, etc. Nancy, which has grown much in importance since the German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine, has manufactures of cotton and woolen goods, artificial flowers, iron, tobacco, etc.; but its staple industry is the capital of the duchy of Lorraine, Here occurred the death of Charles the and Claude Lorraine. Nancy was in the war zone in the World War, and sufwar zone in the World War, and sufaerial raids. Pop. about 120,000. fered severely, chiefly from German ema fabric made of a kind of cotton grown a fabric made of a kind of cotton grown in China which is naturally of a buffyellow color, and this is also the color of the cloth. The plant which yields it is a mere variety of Gossypium hercentury nankeen cloth was much used century nankeen cloth was much used for ladies' and children's attire, and name, when applied to certain kinds of cotton goods, is not confined to fabrics resembling genuine nankeen cloth. name has been