HE announcement of the engagement of Princess Maud of Wales to her cousin. Prince Charles of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 819 wordsALFRED DARKE was an Australian artist, and a leading one to boot. He was ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,258 wordsHERE was no Royal Academy banquet this year, in consequence of Lord Leighton's death, but the annual by the late president, and that is the unfinished "Clytie." Although entirely painted when fatal illness was ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,190 wordsHE trip up the river in search of farming land proved a very pleasant one, varied as it was with a good ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 200 wordsTHERE seems no reason to doubt that poisoning — a picturesque but not commendable form of vice—is ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 522 wordsAfter a stay of three weeks at Hobart Town, he said good-bye to Governor Collins on the 23rd December, 1805, and sailed for Sydney, where he landed on February 5. Driving straight to ...
Article : 208 wordsA letter written by his wife to the Governor while he was in gaol, makes a singular contrast in point of style with his clumsy composition. If it was her own unaided production, it was a very good one; ...
Article : 491 wordsThey had not been neglected by their well-to-do neighbors, among whom he mentions Captain Kent, the port captain (harbormaster), who had married a niece of Governor Hunter's, and was ...
Article : 201 wordsIn the Dharwar district, again, a woman gave three children some curry and rice. They immediately began to display symptoms of virulent poisoning, and one of them died. No motive of ...
Article : 505 wordsA few days after his arrival, he was called upon to attend his Excellency, whom he thanked for allowing him to return to his family; "and I have this proud consolation"—which he printed in ...
Article : 329 wordsPETTICOAT-LANE is a thing of the past, but the original street still exists, and is to-day in about as flourishing ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 491 wordsEven at this distance of time it is painful to think of all the needless cruelty exercised by a few hot headed officials, apparently bent on magnifying a mole-hill into a mountain for the purpose of ...
Article : 183 wordsIf he really told the Governor that he had acted contrary to the laws of Great Britain, he was within an ace of raising a question which might very well have been raised under the circumstances. ...
Article : 192 wordsIn the majority of poisoning cases, however, in which men have been the victims the culprit has turned out to be the man's wife or his mother-in-law. Now and again a man poisons his wife, ...
Article : 198 wordsWe have only to read one of the many warnings published by King and Hunter on the subject of Irish escapes, to see what this affair really amounted to. Here is one of them, dated just about a year ...
Article : 202 wordsSupposing he had said something to that effect, the King would probably have thought it worth his while to pacify the angry rebel. He would have told him that he was sent to the island on ...
Article : 231 wordsThe French axe fond—very fond—of emphasising our national ignorance of their language, but no specimen of English "as she is wrote" can ever have been excelled by that which now comes ...
Article : 425 wordsOur Paris correspondent, in his summary of the 2093 paintings in this year's Salon, says that immediately upon ascending the great stairway the eye is caught by an enormous canvas entitled ...
Article : 451 wordsGiant Wilkins, who is now numbered among the many attractions at Olympia, is 22 years of age. He was born at St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. He is 8ft 2in in height, and weighs 3861b. He ...
Article : 197 words"Some pawnbrokers could tell (says an expert in such matters) a few strange stories of people who hold big positions in the City, for it is not the poorer classes alone who seek our aid. A ...
Article : 180 wordsStill more fatal was the statement of his case put in writing by himself, and submitted as his defence at the time. It is evidently truthful, because it laid him open to the charge of being in ...
Article : 898 wordsTolstoi's favorite diversion just now is chopping trees. Every afternoon, rain or shine, he goes to the wood, axe in hand, to cut through a big trunk and strip it ready for the saws of his ...
Article : 192 wordsFew people realise that the Empress Eugenie has just celebrated her 70th birthday. She still i retains so upright and stately a figure that it is difficult to believe that she was born on May 5, ...
Article : 137 wordsThough snuff-taking is almost a lost art, snuffboxes are still in strong request with collectors. A collection absolutely unique in extent and variety, and consisting of 112 boxes, came under the ...
Article : 153 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Sat 20 Jun 1896, Page 10
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: